Tmux

I tried using Alacritty as my terminal for sometime (speed, customization etc.). One big “limitation” with Alacritty is that it doesn’t use the concept of tabs. You can keep creating new “instances” or windows of Alacritty for each new session you want to create but that gets old. Also Cmd-Tabbing would hoist each instance separately in the switcher which I didn’t like.

I finally bit the bullet and pulled out tmux (again). I’m not hitting myself in the head for not using it earlier. It’s a joy, allows you to have sessions run independently. A big win overall. I reverted to using Terminal.app eventually but I think picking up tmux along the way was a win.

iPhone 14 Pro

I kept telling myself i’m not going to upgrade but I got a pretty wicked trade-in offer. That coupled with the always-on screen shifted the tide.

… but then I returned it. Having followed Casey Neistat a lot I realize that I want to use whatever I own to the point of it breaking or becoming less useful, before I upgrade.

Caught up on some TV shows

After many long months, I finally got some free time to catch up on some TV shows. House of Dragon, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Rings of Power… It’s a good time to get back to watching TV seriously again.

Kotlin starter project

There are days I want to write some pure kotlin code and have some test cases run against it. For some reason the IntelliJ Jetbrains new project template was busted. So I went old school and created it with gradle. I now have a quick template I can keep using.

Wrote the code + tests for an algorithm I’ve wanted to write the logic out for. Nothing fancy, just a recursion/dyanmmic programming type problem. I was starting to feel less confident about writing out the solution with complete detail. Also a good chance for me to sharpen my Kotlin again, as I embark on a heavy rewrite with TrueTime.

Review September’s Goals

• 😐 TrueTime - cleanup and put up a beta .kt version
  • made some progress and cleaned up the repo but didn’t release the .kt version yet.
• 😐 Kotlin Coroutines by Example : Repo & first example
  • created the repo but haven’t come up with first working example
• 🙅 Look into starting new podcast with KG Senior
• ✅ Write 2 blog posts
  • 🛑 Henry 2.0 updates
  • 🚀 new post on awk that did really well on hacker news.
• 🙅 Project PianoMan - Pick first song to practice on the piano

Overall a pretty piss poor performance. But I feel really good about that blog post.

Goals for October

• Write out the thesis statement for a new podcast with KG Sr.
• Publish 2 blog posts
• Start 30 day challenge for atleast 3 days a week 🏃
• .kt work with TrueTime - finish one task
• .kt CBE - finish one task
• Make progress with Studio Course with Mark Rober
• Make progress with Studio Course with Casey Neistat