16-02-2022

Topic

A programmer named Lorinda Cherry passed today. She was integral to some of the designs in Unix, TeX, and various mathematical tools.

She helped an adolescent access professional persons and knowledge that would have otherwise been inaccessible to them. They went on to build computers for a living.

I wonder who Lorinda Cherry was. I read some of her C code. It doesn't make sense to me, since my C isn't strong. It looks clear and clean - like math, and logic. I like that.

Today started a somewhat earlier than usual, whilst I started a little later ! This threw me. As such this document is created at the end of the day.

Today went better than expected. We made some solid progress in a number of areas. A database is mostly ready to set up and interact with.

We have a small MVP. It's very small - but it turns on, and there's some text to read.

As I work with a team, it becomes more difficult to update this diary/record as I go. I'm struggling to think of a solution immediately.

If my Friday project is anything to go by, we may have a ways to go at present, but once the database and ORM is up and running, we should be able speed through many smaller tasks whilst implementing database functionality.

I find myself at my pc out of hours often. This isn't bad of-itself; my PC is a tool, work is... work. My pc =/= work.

However.

I find myself thinking about work out of hours - often. This i don't like and it isn't a good habit.

If I work out of hours, it needs to be for myself. I like my time to be productive. I dislike wasted time. I dislike typical entertainment of films, TV, even radio. I am particular on my consumption.

My other time is often spent cooking - again, no bad thing. We are what we eat to some extent. Better to cook than purchase ready meals.

I need to find a way to turn off. But my thoughts are constantly drifting back to unopened textbooks, software ideas, and unfinished projects.

At this rate, wasm, data structures in Clojure/C, will never be covered.

I still need to figure the move out, and that is stressing me.

I have emails to send. Some emails are complicated. Why am I stressing over emails?