Category Archives: Programming

Weeknote for 8/29/2021

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Andy

Programming 🤔 I’m reevaluating my approach to learning Haskell. I should get used to that, because I’m trying to learn continuous improvement, so I’ll always be reevaluating. Last week I decided to create a practice project for learning the language. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/22/2021

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Andy

Today’s weeknote catches me in the middle of a bunch of things rather than at the end when I usually like to report them, so I’ll just run through them quickly. Programming 🙂 I got through the first three-and-a-half chapters … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/15/2021

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Andy

Productivity 🙂 I set up a table of fake tasks to help me experiment with scheduling algorithms. I’m hoping they’ll help me automate more of my task management so I can spend less time and mental energy reviewing my to-do … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/8/2021

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Andy

Finances 🤔 I’m planning my investments with the Bogleheads’ Retiree Portfolio Model. My impression is it contains most of the formulas I was going to have to research or guess at, so it should save a lot of time. I … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/1/2021

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Andy

People 🙂 My parents drove up to visit for a couple of days and drop off some boxes of my stuff. We spent the time eating at restaurants, playing Isle of Skye, napping, visiting my favorite water tower, and watching … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/30/2021

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Andy

Finances 😕 I examined some opinions on long-term care insurance. I spent more time on them than is really called for at this stage of this project, since I’m only collecting costs, but I’ll need to look into it sometime … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/31/2021

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Andy

Productivity 😎 Week 1 of my elastic habits went very well. I didn’t miss a day on any of my habits (sleep, housekeeping, and projects). I’ll cover the details in the next sections. Sleep 🙂 I got an Elite win … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/17/2020

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Andy

Learning 🙂 Feeling good about failure. Last week completed the first sprint of my project to algorithmically generate a dictionary of mnemonic substitutes to help in memorizing, a lot like the ones in this thread. My aim in this sprint … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/10/2020

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Andy

Text-to-speech 🙂 A few weeks ago when I included an audio version of my post, I had a couple of (off-blog) comments about the unexciting tone of the text-to-speech voice Noah, and though I had sampled far blander voices, I … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/3/2020

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Andy

Learning 😎 For my project to create a first draft of a dictionary of mnemonic substitute words, I finished setting up the TransPhoner software and tinkered with it enough to see that parts of it will be useful. This week … Continue reading →