Required tasks
1. One-hour daily blogging. Topics lined up: finish “Road to Ossasepia” and WoT series; Saturday’s hiking trip; my IRC client.
2. Finish research on Uruguay logistics, finalize personal valuations of the NSA/Pizarro surplus, fund deedbot wallet, place bids (plus manual raises if needed): 6h
3. Script/test blog image uploading: 1h
4. Research apartment options: 2h
5. #trilema and blogs reading: I’m getting the sense that I need to start taking this more seriously. Thinking to try 2h/day.
6. Investigate undelivered pingbacks (bumped from “time permitting”): 1h
7. Plan next stages of development on my Bitcoin wallet / inquire whether there are options I’ve not yet considered: 4h
Seems quite a lot really. I don’t mind it if you plan it properly and it all fits and gets done but make sure that is the case, ok? I knew you still have those lessons to plan & deliver until the end of November so wasn’t pushing too much.
For point 5: can you make those 2 hours (or one of them) from 7pm or 7:30pm GMT at least on the days without lessons? There has to be some time when I can talk to you if needed.
For point 7, we’ll need to clarify first where you are there but it can (has to) still wait as there are a lot of other things with higher priority for you. We can discuss it if you want it anyway, but please focus first on getting all the rest on the list done, this currently is “time permitting”.
Comment by Diana Coman — November 11, 2019 @ 12:44 pm
It is a lot, and off to a rough start already.
Ack on #5; I’ll need to be careful about getting lost in reading while ‘available’ in channel if these are sharing a time but seems like it should be doable.
Ack on #7; it is important for me to get it moving, as it’s an existing commitment to paying clients, but not clear that I’ll have the time this week.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — November 12, 2019 @ 9:39 am
What other surprises should I expect by now from you? A commitment to paying clients that gets mentioned as such only now, jeez. (And don’t you throw at me that half-assed “I’m presently on the hook for getting this to some degree of usefulness by close of 2019.”) There’s quite a difference between “there’s this wallet work on the list too” and “I’ve made a commitment to paying clients to get this done (or *what exactly* is this commitment anyway?)”
Let’s start from there: what’s your commitment re wallet to those people?
Comment by Diana Coman — November 12, 2019 @ 9:54 am
With respect to Uruguay logistics, feel very free to ask. While I did live in a hostel, I frequented enough local hotels to offer recommendations. At least, in the geographic area where moving your iron won’t be too much of a trek.
Comment by BingoBoingo — November 12, 2019 @ 3:19 pm
@Diana Coman: I see now that I didn’t call this out nearly loud or clear enough, and also planned it poorly from the start, in a “seems like it should be doable by then” sort of way. The agreement is for
Potentially this could be re-negotiated at some kind of cost; not what I’d prefer but mentioning for completeness.
My implementation referred to there dates from October-November 2017 and is in Scheme, including the numerics/crypto (which are not constant-time). There’s also a prototype in Python which was a bit further along, e.g. implementing the rather convoluted algorithm for Bitcoin transaction signing and encoding.
I’m not asking anyone to review the code as it stands and don’t really expect this could become a Republican item as is, but perhaps it could be a starting point.
The remaining work as I see, unless someone’s meanwhile solved the problem better, is: finishing the offline Scheme component (porting the TX signing, some interface for input selection, importing inbound TXID/value data, accounting), and an online component – probably in Python using existing libs – to scan a TRB node’s blocks for inbound transactions to a watched address set, and push new transactions received from the offline side.
Thinking about other potential surprises: there’s now a December 6-9 Uruguay run; there’s a visit to the US I’m pretty sure I mentioned, tentatively leaving mid-December and returning by new year: I expect to be somewhat available during this time but unsure how much. In finances, at some point I’ll be needing to unload BTC to provide for 2020 expenses. In business, we have no new training clients confirmed but some in the pipeline, and Robinson’s planning a 2-3 day networking event in February, hoping to attract some people from out of town, where I’d be presenting on basic Bitcoin and digital security topics. Also I have some debts in healthcare: routine checkups I need to get on top of, and known problems I need to stop delaying on (I’d rather not go in detail if that’s OK).
Comment by Jacob Welsh — November 13, 2019 @ 7:45 pm
Right. In principle Trinque has such a thing for deedbot but since I’m still waiting on him to publish that too I have no idea really + you have there something you need to finish as you started, there’s not much point waiting on anything and you don’t have the time to wait anyway. To make it clear:
1. This week you focus on getting done what was in the plan for this week.
2. It’s already mid-November and then in December you clearly won’t be able to get much work done anyway so either you really focus on the wallet those coming 2 weeks or I can’t see it happening, might as well think of alternatives now rather than later. Give it an honest think until the end of this week and/or talk in #o about it but don’t just let it drift like this.
3. For next week, this wallet thing gets top priority and I want you to actually plan the work on this already and publish the damned plan and the code too. Doesn’t even matter if someone reviews the code or not, write up where you are with it, what your next steps should be (with deadlines on them too!) and publish current status + plan + code (can be one single article, won’t hurt anything, your writing problem is not with quantity but with topic and on tech you can and do write just fine) by Tuesday evening the latest.
4. For the US visit, it’s all right from my point of view to take it as full holidays (esp if you actually do really take a break and it works for you), no need to mess it up and/or promise any online time, just make the dates clear when you have them and otherwise enjoy your time there, take some pics for later blogging, have fun, get some rest etc.
5. Finances and business don’t sound that great, huh. It will come into focus soon enough though and atm you should focus on getting that wallet done and out of the way, at any rate. Nothing to gain by spinning on this right now anyway.
6. Re healthcare just do what you need done there already, that’s all. That’s the best way to make sure there’s no need for going in details too, just do the intelligent thing and stop delaying what needs to be done.
Comment by Diana Coman — November 14, 2019 @ 9:07 am
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