Notes

I’m also using Parker Quink but on Leuchtturm notebooks. Here it’s definitely the paper but I just like the way it feels otherwise. I also have some Lamy black ink that I’ll use once I’m through with the Parker bottle 🙂

What the logbooks have turned into is an index of my life. I consult them to reminisce about important events, like the days my kids were born, but I often consult them for really mundane stuff, like looking up the last time I replaced the air filter on the furnace.

That’s pretty much why I keep a log/journal too. Just today I was asked if I had attended a certain conference this summer. I wasn’t sure anymore since there were some trouble around booking and timing (which led to some confusion around if I even had a ticket for the event or not) and I knew I had attended a conference with a similar topic this summer. Turns out, I hadn’t attended that specific event. With the date of the conference it was just a minute to look up the days in my log and find out.

That’s pretty much also my opinion of certifications. In this case, I mostly did them because I wanted to get some deeper but also broader knowledge about the whole stack and doing an exam in the end was the incentive to stick with it until the end.

It’s still just a snapshot and I absolutely agree with you that having a cert doesn’t automatically make you into an expert. People collecting certs like Pokémon without actually working with those technologies in the long run are IMO doing the exams for the wrong reasons.

Thanks, I had completely forgotten about Advent of Code! I’m not yet sure what language I want to solve these tasks in, though. I started with Go, then went to Python, and now I’m considering doing the rest either in Rust, Swift, or Elisp 🤪

I write and prefer code that fits within 80 columns in curl and other projects – and there are reasons for it. I’m a little bored by the people who respond and say that they have 400 inch monitors already and they can use them.

I too have multiple large high resolution screens – but writing wide code is still a bad idea! So I decided I’ll write down my reasoning once and for all!