For a few days I’ve being reading zettelkasten related articles and previously mentioned notes of Andy Matuschak. Making totally about 235 articles. That was quite a long read. Tons of interesting stuff, resulting in some notes of/for myself. Speaking of notes - so far ‘web of interconnected notes’ idea works fine for me. Connections you make usually based on your thinking and associations, as a result navigation feels natural - easy to remember and use. ...

Seems like I mostly finished the migration from Org-mode to a set of markdown files. 337 so far. That took a while. Also that was quite a mess. Removed tons of entries which aren’t useful anymore. Haven’t migrated all the work/current project data yet, but didn’t really need that - gonna migrate as per necessity arise. I’m gonna keep the things this way, for a few months at least

From time to time I review the way I do my notes taking. I have a lot of notes on different themes, both personal and work stuff. And for last few years I’ve being emacs org-mode. I’ve tried quite a lot of different things and apps, from simple text files without any structure up to specialized tools. Yet still I come back to org-mode. For a quite some time I’ve being reading about [[202012051855 Zettelkasten]]. In simple words - do short atomic notes, and interconnect such notes. ...

I like it so far. Task 3 was basically about simple iterating. Task 4 can be solved using state machine, though data validation in hard part was a little bit hectic(missed java/kotlin spring validation thingy), so I wrote quite a number of unit tests. Task 5, as title ‘Binary boarding’ suggests, is about using binary search algorithm, a few times. Task 6 reminds me task 4, but was somewhat easier to my taste. ...

Well yeah, task 2 is even easier than the first, to my taste. Current IntelliJ IDEA Nim lang plugin doesn’t exactly work for me. It correctly highlights the code, understands declarations - but it has no idea about stdlib, and has no autosuggestion. Vim with plugin is more convenient as for now, but I like the idea of officially supported language plugin in such a popular tool - that could end up with something interesting ...

Long waited Advent of Code 2020 has started. First task was obviously simple (though hard part made the simple part code obsolete). Solved it in pretty bad Ruby. The second task looks simple, it won’t be much bother too. Gonna use Nim this time.

So the idea of using ML in food delivery notifier service did and did not work out. On the one hand - everything went relatively smooth. It was good to remember how to use python and ipython notebook, prepare and parse data (finite state machine for the win!), try out few regression models, make some ‘insights’. On the other hand - accuracy is really low. It does predict ‘scale’ right, hour-two, but makes severe mistakes. ...

There is a simple project of mine called food delivery notifier. It checks current food delivery status and shows it in system tray. As for me - a bit more convenient than constantly refresh the page. Currenlty supported service has a map and coordinates info, it shows courier location. So knowing how far away a courier is from restaurant or your place allows you to assess how long you’ll be waiting for delivery. ...

For me it’s always a pleasure to do some refactoring. The whole idea is about re-structuring, creating more clear, poilshed, sane, understandable code structure. More expressive, less obtrusive lines which just get the things done. In a more direct way. Tearing a problem apart, re-assemble pieces, solve a puzzle. Just like it

It’s been a while since I used Rust lang in any way or form. I wouldn’t say I’ve done anything noticable, or even useful it in, but still - kinda interested in this language, tons of little reasons. As a sort of warm-up before advent of code 2020 I would like to re-read The Book of Rust, take a closer look on 2018 edition of the language, and ideally try a few coding tasks using Rust specifically. Language evolved, tooling have become more convenient than it was a couple of years ago - so it can be a really nice time for a revisit. ...