November 10, 2020

Gil's week #202045

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 on-boarding is going well :).
• Managed to contribute a bit to the Arch community in the form of editing the fabulous wiki, which was a pleasant experience, takes a bit to get used to how to write in that wierd markup language, but it's fine once you get the hang of it. Being on IRC is helpful.
• Bought a Withings watch (scanwatch) and so far so good, I like it, but I don't like the fact that I have to have location turned on to sync it, I'm trying to do it only every once in a while.
• Bought my old work laptop from my previous company and after paying for it, covered it in sticker (obviously), if you're curious, it's a Thinkpad X280.
• Restarted learning/playing chess, we'll see how long this new hobby lasts, I've focused a bit on it in the past, but it never stuck. After watching the Queen's Gambit on Netflix, I got interested in Chess again.
• Uninstalled Instagram again so I can focus on my new job (and chess), uninstalling Instagram from time to time has been the best to give me back some time.

Cool URLs

• How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner, really interesting article, and everyone should read it, from any skill level. It's about how it's easy to get stuck in a stage of learning where you're not growing your knowledge productively.
• Dreyfus model of skill acquisition (wikipedia), related to the article above.

Cheers,

Gil