Gil's December 2020

January 2, 2021

This month I... Decided to change the format of the newsletter, I wasn't sending the weekly newsletter as regularly as before, so I'll try sending it...

Gil's week #202048

November 30, 2020

These past weeks I… Joined a new company and that’s my excuse for not sending out the newsletter, which isn’t really a great excuse because I don’t work on...

Gil's week #202045

November 10, 2020

This week I... Enjoyed my last week before starting work on my new company, I'm excited! And since I'm sending this newsletter late, I can tell you that the...

Gil's week #202044

November 1, 2020

This week I... Continued on my mini sabbatical from last week. I forgot to send out the newsletter, but last week was my last week on my current company...

Gil's week #202042

October 18, 2020

This week I... Worked on my last full week at my current job, it was emotional in many aspects, I'm having some mixed feelings about leaving, I'm going to be...

Gil's week #202040

October 4, 2020

This week I... Am attending the roguelike celebration conference, which is great. I haven't made games in a while but I love the topic, and it's interesting...

Gil's week #202039

September 27, 2020

This week I... Got and played the game Gloomhaven "Jaws of the lion". If you like boardgames, and have player or wanted to play the best board game according...

Gil's week #202037

September 14, 2020

This week I… Updated my plan page and now. TL;DR: I have quit my job. I realised I like working remotely enough to apply to a company that I’ve been on the...

Gil's week #202036

September 6, 2020

This week I… Skipped last week’s newsletter. I had nothing to write about. Have been following Cal Newsport’s work more closely. I know him and his books but...

Gil's week #202034

August 26, 2020

This week I... Have been watching a lot of "Below Deck", you could say I'm addicted. And I was never someone who enjoys reality shows, but the fact that it's...

Gil's week #202033

August 16, 2020

This week I… Was on holiday, didn’t do anything “productive” this time around and managed to relax properly. Took the gaming PC out and played a bit of:...

Gil's week #202032

August 10, 2020

This week I… Set up my old OnePlusOne with LineageOS as an experiment of using a google-free android phone. So far so good, but I know that I can’t have a...

Gil's week #202031

August 3, 2020

This week I… Sent the newsletter late :D. Didn’t do as many reps as I have been doing, maybe because I was a bit more tired this week. Bought a game called...

Gil's week #202030

July 26, 2020

This week I... Attended Europython online and it was great. I loved the combination of discord + video. It enabled me to check the notes from other talks...

Gil's week #202029

July 19, 2020

This week I… Have been focusing on something I can’t really share, so I didn’t have much time for reading cool articles, so I don’t have much to share this...

Gil's Week #202028

July 12, 2020

This week I... forgot to mention on the last newsletter, that I played with Deno at work and enjoyed it, here is the code I produced as I played with it....

Gil's Week #202027

July 5, 2020

This week I… Wrote 2 blog posts: Gil.codes – Moving to Doom Emacs None Gil.codes – Scalability? You ain’t gonna need it None Got back to work, felt a little...

Gil's Week #202026

June 28, 2020

This week I... Was on holiday for the whole week Played Red Dead Redemption 2 (but Gil, I thought you finished it last Sunday! Yeah, but what if I complete...

Gil's Week #202025

June 24, 2020

This week I... Got very tired, maybe it's because next week I'll be on holiday, maybe there's too much work and I'm not feeling like I accomplished much...or...

Gil's Week #202024

June 17, 2020

This week I… Didn’t use the planck to write this newsletter, so hopefully, there will be a lot less typos, sorry about the previous newsletter. Am sending...

Gil's Week #202023

June 7, 2020

This week I... Got the planck ez, which I'm trying to use just now to write this newsletter. I got some very clicky keys, which are awesome to type in, but...

Gil's Week #202022

May 31, 2020

This week I… Didn’t work on Monday, since it was a bank holiday, I took a long walk outside to get out of the house and move my legs. The week felt quite...

Gil's Week #202021

May 24, 2020

This week I… Kept on using emacs for work, I’m getting more and more used to it. I’m even writing this newsletter on it for the first time. I realise that I...

Gil's Week #202020

May 18, 2020

This week I... Used doom emacs at work. There's still lots for me to get used to, but I'm slowly getting there. The discord community certainly helps a lot....

Gil's Week #202019

May 10, 2020

This week I… Published my first npm package Started learning emacs with doom and I’m enjoying it. I tried replacing neovim completely, but found out that...

Gil's Week #202018

May 3, 2020

This week I... Learned how to use vercel's serverless function to make my own url2markdown service, it works, but it's early days, I'll later write a blog...

Gil's Week #202017

April 26, 2020

This week I… Published a book on Leanpub. Found this great way of writing more, will try to use , but I haven’t yet. Made my 5th Sourdough and it was the...

Gil's Week #202016

April 19, 2020

This week I… Got my first Lego kit in ages, the amazing Pirates of Barracuda Bay set, haven’t finished it, but I already love it, I hope this is not the...

Gil's Week #202015

April 13, 2020

This week I… Moved my twtxt host from Heroku using ToH, into my tilde address. Which feels much more natural, just like the way twtxt was meant to be, and...

Gil's Week #202014

April 6, 2020

This week I… Was still on holiday for two days, until I… Got back to work, it was a weird unproductive week, partly due to work, partly because it was hard...

Gil's Week #202013

March 29, 2020

This week I… Was on holiday…home I had some plans for this week, was going to pixels.camp and was going to learn Rust, write more, be super productive, but...

Gil's Week #202012

March 23, 2020

This week I... Worked from home every day. Settled on a kettlebell routine (it's called Simple & Sinister, I haven't finished the book, but I've been doing...

Gil's Week #202011

March 15, 2020

This week I... Worked from home from Thursday to avoid being a vector of contagion. Mixed feelings about it, I love staying home, but not because I have to....

Gil's Week #202010

March 11, 2020

Note: This is a late newsletter I should've sent on the 8th This week I... Attended a workshop about communication, the key thing I learned was Active...

Gil's Week #202009

March 1, 2020

Gil’s Week #202009 This week I… Attended a Codebar workshop as a coach. Went to the London Python Meetup, where the theme was Code Quality. Had pizza for...

Gil's Week #202008

February 23, 2020

This week I… Learned about the dot language to draw graphs in ascii art, I also learned about graph-easy and dropped it into a shell script (using Docker...

Gil's Week #202007

February 16, 2020

This week I... Was sick on Monday from food poisoning :( Didn't drink any caffeine (just didn't feel like it and continued not drinking) Worked from home...

Gil's Week #202006

February 9, 2020

What notable things happened this week Created this newsletter Was invited to give a talk in Oxford Went to Software Craftsmanship Roundtable meetup Turned...

Gil's Week #202005

February 5, 2020

This is the first ever newsletter for all the first subscribers (or curious future readers) to get a glimpse of how the newsletter will look like in the...