One of the reasons for me to have the excuse not to write is that I have nothing to write about. There are a lot of topics you can almost tweet about but not write a full blog post. I saw that Thorsten Ball is writing normally a weekly post gathering all those small topics and reads. I will, unapologetically, copy that practice. He publishes that as a newsletter too. I will just write the blog.
I am finding myself lately using more and more GUI tools. Maybe because in my day job I am using more MacOS but probably because the nature of the things I am trying to do is changing a little bit. I used to rely a lot in saving terminal sessions but these days I am using more OBS or Gifox than ever. Anyway I always find comforting having tools like vhs available. They give peace of mind.
Another nice episode of The cyberpunk librarian. Talking about personal freedom and self hosting.
This week I went through the first chapter of Casella and Berger. I am supposed to know those terms but it is funny how reading a technical text makes you settle all your concepts in such a way that unless you are not 100% clear in the concepts it is super hard to follow. I guess I will spend a couple of weeks in the exercises...
This interview in Freakonomics with Dan Wang about his book Breakneck has an amazing metaphor I will use more. He talks about lawyer mindset vs engineer mindset. The engineer has problems and tries to solve them. What he calls “the lawyer mindset” is that you are thinking in the process of solving the problem instead. Defining a good process becomes more important and hurdles are found for the people actually doing the work.
I, briefly, tried Antigravity and I was far from impressed. After watching this video I am starting to question myself.