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Gil's Week #202023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...