Based on the live discussion.
I skipped some items from my plan and added some others. The status in detail:
1. SSD upgrade + backup scripting for TRB machine: 3h.
I took 3.8h to do the upgrade including a manual backup, physical swap, partitioning and restoring, and wiping the old drive. (One inconvenience was not having a pluggable USB/SATA enclosure here so some of this was done in-system from temporary boot media.) I didn’t do the backup scripting and haven’t really figured out why I preferred not to.
2. Verify mod6’s TRB Keccak tree: 1h.
Done in 2.4h including leaving some comments on his blog, or rather the spam queue thereof.
I could watch out for things like this that sound simple but where I don’t yet have the ingredients lined up or work clearly envisioned for applying a doubling factor.
3. Update and test TRB patches (rawtx, Gales build): 6h.
Done in 6.7h.
4. Continue researching and apply for temporary local health insurance: 4h.
No progress (well, on my part; family sent along some links). It’s something I’ve been pushed toward doing and “makes sense” but I haven’t got my own decision to embrace it fully.
5. Continue v.sh and/or vtools study: 2h.
No progress. Still a longer-term goal but didn’t seem that important right now.
6. Make a list of applications for genesis.
Likewise.
7. Keep in touch with remote friends and family.
Did some email reading & writing.
8. Assist Robinson as necessary.
Not much was requested, in particular there was no new sales article draft; I gave some suggestions on lesson ordering and module breakdown.
9. Next week’s review by Friday.
Not even by Sunday this time.
Unplanned work included:
- MP-WP patch cleanup and writeup (initially for billymg as he was looking into server-side selection), 5h
- Ada recipe roundup and archiving (spurred by seeing trinque looking into it and ave1 briefly showing up): 5h
- Ada work writeup: 8.7h
- Testing/maintaining backup internet and IRC (+ some email and chat that got lumped in ((This is an example of detail I get from not keeping to strict labels in my time logs, since I don’t remember to log task switches 100% of the time; I suppose a notes field could be kept separately from a standardized task label.))): 2.2h
- TRB SetHex investigation and writeup (made sense to do while the patches were fresh in mind): 3.1h
There was #o chat time which, along with writing, I thought was clear enough as an implicit daily thing, but I’m not presently finding where I said that, and seemingly not clear.
As there’s an ongoing gap between plans and reality, the question is why, whether it’s helping or hurting, and what I want to improve on. It seems to me it’s helpful that the plan allows some slack for new things that come up, but less helpful veering toward pretentious that it includes so many things that get no attention. I’m having trouble accepting that I need to drop some of them though; there’s still an upswell of “maybe this week!” hopes.
Also I’m still not quite seeing MP-WP or Ada as informative of the direction I’m likely to go this week, as I completed what I wanted on them for now, plus Trinque spoke of working on a simplified GNAT recipe so I’d just as soon wait to see what he comes up with.
You can still adjust so it’s easier to extract the report perhaps on 2 levels or similar. The point is not to break what works but to find a way to streamline the process, while keeping in what is useful, sure.
As to directions, it looks like TRB rather caught your interest for now. It had seemed to me you wanted to do something else/more with the MPWP and Ada but if you say you’re done, then fine. Anyways, your main interest should normally come from JWRD really – and this is partially why I was noticing yesterday that the existing communications there seem surprisingly unhelpful (I wouldn’t have imagined that’s their usual state).
In any case, if you don’t know what directions, then pick from the list one big thing and focus on that – I’d say the main part is setting out properly all the software you made and/or use so possibly start from that “applications to genesis” but note that in the end there is still no clear path to using your offline wallet for instance. You know, you have so many things in various states of “done” but overall someone new is hard pressed to find a place to start from in using any one of those done things.
Comment by Diana Coman — April 14, 2020 @ 7:29 am