I’ve cut down on watching media that’s designed to take advantage of users’ finite attention span.
That said, I’ve substituted watching youtube and/or browsing social media with reading Mailing Lists.
Whenever I can, I offer suggestions, reviews or even patches.
ATM, I’ve been intrigued by the ongoing retbleed discussion in the Linux Kernel mailing lists.
I just sent a patch to Arun for some csv parsing work I did.
I implemented that with continuations in a very bare-bones way.
A better library was recommended: guile-dsv - Delimiter-separated values (DSV) format parser for GNU Guile.
I want to send V2 patches with the above changes + some logic for dumping SQL.
This week, I want have my SQL patchset reviewed and hopefully reviewed.
While the test-window is present, I want to see if I can merge this or at the very least make some progress on it.
WRT GN2/3 I reckon I’m well positioned to lead the back-end engineering effort.
On that front, over the coming weeks I’ll work out a way to be more aggressive on that front.
One thing I’ll do is come up with a plan - that aligns - with my school work on how to go about this.
Grad School
I got to hang-out with a class mate where I reviewed some take-away CAT.
I learnt some new things and made corrections to my submissions.
Got an anime - OT for this section - recommendation: “My Isekai Life.”
Last semester’s results have been published in our portal, and I “generally” passed.
Only thing that concerns me is that I have a “retake” for one of the units I took last semester.
The grades - for this retake - haven’t been published, so this may be a case of missing results.
That said, my reaction to this was very “panicky” - an indicator to myself that somewhere inside me, despite alot of effort against it, I still attach alot of value to academic accomplishment at the expense of real intellectual pursuit (see: On learning and being present on further discussion of this, in particular “avatars”.)
Also, I noticed that I am cognizant of some “pride” in myself - I think, to some extent, that I’m too “smart” to fail an SU exam.
This “pride” stems from a place of “repulsion/hate/anger” of the institution itself since (one of) my first (and memorable) experiences there was some random staff (fashion police) harassing me.
I’m proud of myself that I can have these conversations with myself in a very honest way.
Humility and honesty are some important qualities I’ve observed in researchers I look upto.
I’ve already raised my concerns to the department for them to take action.
Also, I’ll try to reach out to the individual lecturer, and find out what/where I did wrong - not to “fix” things, but more for myself to understand what I could have done better.
I created my very first source hut repository.
With time, I intend to move most - if not all - of my repositories from Github to sourcehut.
Hanged out with a dear one - they are going through alot - on Friday at some oontz space (Mist).
The hangout was something akin to moral/emotional support.
In the process, I got to have a random hang-out with some other person.
The experience was really nice.
Bought an extra - yay! - heater for the host.
This cold Nairobi weather can be unbearable at times.
On Sunday, I reconnected with an old friend who’s in Germany atm.
We caught up on so many fronts.
Quality time with my baby sister.
My partner went to the Coast.
I wish I could join them.
Replaced my ink cartridge - nowadays I print alot!
There was a bit of a hassle where one of the new catridges I bought was damaged.
I returned it to the vendor - TBC Sarit Center - and they replaced it without any trouble. Big up to them!