lennys September 21, 2024

Just some stuff...

Well my shoulder is still messed up, whatever I did to it, I did a good job. Any movement that involves me lifting my left arm hurts. I'm working through the pain as it isn't excruciating, just annoying. I haven't had a proper upper-body workout in the last two weeks. When I go to the gym later today I'll just be walking (and maybe running) on the treadmill. I hope this heals up soon, because I don't want to lose any ground in my working out. I'm still painting on my toolbox at home. I may be doing that today too. It's about 70% finished with the painting, minus the drawers. It'll probably be another week before I'll be satisfied with how it looks. Then I have to scuff up and paint the drawers, then reassemble the whole thing. It'll be nice when I'm done with this project as I never anticipated it taking this long. The last Python meetup was kind of interesting. They went over "Python culture", which was about how you render code when you're writing it, what kind of commenting and formatting to use, etc. A lot of it I had seen before, but it was interesting seeing someone else with years of experience talk about it. The guys who run this group are mostly old-school programmers with a lot of experience. I'm just happy I've been able to follow along with the material they've presented so far. I managed to foul up my Mikrotik router somehow so that I could no longer log into it remotely. After discussing it with a few people I had to setup a serial connection to one of my servers in the cabinet to regain access. It works, but since it only works with the command-line and I'm not very well-versed in that it's a pain to use. I have been thinking about it and I think I'm going to have to blow away the whole config and set it up again from scratch. I'm hoping I can import some of the existing config, but for the moment I'm not going to change anything or try to fix the issue. I'll leave it alone until I have time this weekend to fiddle with it.

lennys September 09, 2024

Picking investments

So I just finished setting up a few investment pies in M1. I'm going off of the examples made in this newsletter I'm subscribed to, some of which is over my head but I'm doing it anyway. I won't be putting a lot of money into this at first, just a hundred dollars every now and then, so if it goes belly-up I won't be hit too hard. I've been studying investing off and on for a few years now, and I've learned that it takes a massive amount of time and effort to become knowledgeable in it. More time and energy than I care to invest in it, to be honest. Thus I'm going off of what the pros recommend. I'm doing all this because I got a late start in the investing game, and I'm playing catch-up now. So far overall it's been outperforming inflation by a few points so I can't really complain much. Other than that, things are boring like usual. I'm still painting on my toolbox which is coming along pretty well. It's a slow process because I have to let it sit between coats for a whole day, so I go out on the patio, spray paint it for ten minutes, then go back inside and wait until the next day for the paint to dry. I have a Python meetup tomorrow evening I'll be going to, which should be interesting. They'll be discussing something with Jupyter Labs, I forget the exact details but since I've been using Jupyter Labs in my Python studying I've got a little bit of familiarity with it now. We'll see how much I get out of it, so far I haven't really used it to its full potential. The new Python book is pretty good, it cuts out a lot of the fluff and covers material I haven't seen before. I'm slowly working my way through it. I'm still doing daily DataCamp lessons too - lately I've been working through an AI track they have, learning about LLMs and stuff. I don't know where I'm heading with this AI stuff, but it's been interesting so far and since AI is getting to be a big deal I figure it's a good idea for me to know more about it. I might even learn to use ChatGPT before it's over and done with too. I think I cranked something in my left shoulder at the gym last Saturday, as it's been aching ever since. I have an appointment with a trainer at the gym today so I'm going to have to be careful with what I do to avoid injury. I've been doing bodyweight exercises in the mornings before work for a couple of weeks now too. I'm not seeing a huge amount of improvement yet but I'm sticking with it. This "Pump" app I'm using is a helpful guide on what to work on and when to rest. I think it's been worth the 77 bucks I spent on it. If it helps me lose some fat off of my waist this year I'll be a happy camper.

lennys September 01, 2024

Nothing to write about

Like the title says, I haven't got much of anything to write about. Things are going along okay. I went to the Python meetup last Tuesday, where some guy showed off his stock research website he had built and discussed the code that makes it work. This coming Tuesday they'll be building a HTMX web server application. This is new territory for me, so I don't expect I'll get a lot out of it but I'm going anyway. I Started working my way through a new Python book recently. It's titled "Python Distilled", and so far I feel like I'm getting a lot out of it. It does a good job of summarizing the material without going overboard with the explanations. I've only made it through to chapter 3 so far, but it feels like I'm learning something. I'm working through the examples using Jupyter Lab, which is a pretty handy tool. I've just started to learn what can be done with it, you can write Python code or Markdown with it and it will display the results inline with the code, which is pretty neat. Until now I've been using a text editor and running the Python interpreter in a terminal, which is more difficult to use so the new way of doing things is definitely an improvement. I'm still working on painting my toolbox. I have started laying on the red paint on the interior, and I'm painting several light coats to avoid getting runs in the paint. It's slow going as I have to let the paint dry between coats, which takes hours, so I go out on the patio, spray it for about ten minutes, then have to let it sit until the next day, so it's taking a long time but I'm working on it. I'll get it done eventually.

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