flaneur
Flaneur
From french meaning: wanderer, stroller. To walk without a clear end in sight. Or to walk in order to think/organize ideas.
flaneur
Flaneur
From french meaning: wanderer, stroller. To walk without a clear end in sight. Or to walk in order to think/organize ideas.
blackswam
Daily Dispatch 26 - Black Swam
How do you predict the unpredictable? Some of what I’ve found reading Black Swan (Still haven’t finished it): * What Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues in his book Black Swan is that the first step is to realize which variables you can and can’t predict. Emphasis on the “can’
dailydispatch
Daily Dispatch 25 - Pomodoro
One of the things I started using in college and was such a game changer that I continued using was the Pomodoro Technique. What is it? Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s created what is called The Pomodoro Technique. He wanted to help improve with his studies by making it
dailydispatch
Everything is a Test
What if instead of thinking of Test Driven Development, we start thinking “Everything you do is testing some hypothesis”. Everything is a test. How would that change your approach?
learning
Daily Dispatch 24 - Learn on Demand
There’s this concept of not depending on books or courses that got my interest lately. After I learned to love reading, I would get my hands on anything non-fictional that was readable, even say, anatomy books. I grew up on my old auntie’s room. So I had plenty
vim
Daily Dispatch 23 - VI Improved (VIM)
So I’ve been playing around with Vim, the improved version of VI from old operational systems. It’s been very challenging so far, I haven’t really wrapped my head around all the neat commands, and switching from the 3 modes (VISUAL, NORMAL, INSERT) is still taking some time.
carlin
I'm with Carlin on this one.
I don’t like euphemistic language either. I think what bothers me about it is the fact that whoever isn’t “in” on the new acceptable language has trouble communicating simple things. It’s like trying to learn a new language all together. And the replacement seems to come from
android
Daily Dispatch 22 - ListAdapter to the Rescue
It’s been a while since I’ve written about some “normal” Android Development. Today I followed a lead on DiffUtil, a library that a senior developer told me about. It is supposed to be used in Recycler views with adapters to avoid having to call notifyAllDataChanged() and having some
callisthenics
Daily Dispatch 21 - Gym and Kotlin Native Memory Model
I know y’all miss my daily dispatches, that aren’t daily at all, only on the days I do write them. So I’ve been out of gym, due to the price rising too high and my current employer recently giving me Gympass access. So I decided to cancel
pkm
Little Bits: Zettelkasten Method
How fun would it be if you could write notes and throw them all into one basket, but every time you look for a piece of information, you could find it easily?
productivity
Someday is NOT a day of the Week
Who else needs a calendar to get stuff done?
zettel
Daily Dispatch 20 - Web of Ideas
... forming those relationships trains your brain to look for patterns. After all, connection is learning.