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3 years ago I had difficulty with procrastination, overheating, and stress tonight. I got caught up on my journaling, but by the time I got to finishing GitHub work, I was completely distracted, and had to quit to get ready for bed. This is the first time I have skipped the image naming process.
I didn't do very much today.
Today was not a good day for development.
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3 years ago I had difficulty with procrastination, overheating, and stress yet tonight. I didn't fall behind in my journaling, but by the time I got to finishing GitHub work, I was completely distracted again, and had to quit to get ready for bed. This is the second time I have skipped the image naming process.
I spent way too much time playing games today, and I woke up late. I am really working on cutting down on this, but it is hard sometimes.
I didn't do very much today.
Today was not a good day for development.
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3 years ago I continued to have difficulty with procrastination, overheating, and stress yet again today. I didn't fall behind in my journaling, but my journaling work was scattered. I didn't start until past 2:30 pm.
I have been taking advantage of spreading awareness to degoogling on GitHub by populating the #degoogle-your-life topic. I spent a lot of time working on an article on the problems of Google Chrome, and ChromeOS today, how bad it is, and how to get away from it. I spent nearly 2 hours writing it.
I didn't do very much today.
Today was a better day for development.
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3 years ago I got a little more done today, but I had to hold off more work. I got woken up early today and had less than 8 hours of sleep. I am going to go to bed early to make up for it and attempt to fix my schedule.
GitHub has recently (yesterday) changed the interface again, making the contribution graph have beveled squares (squares with rounded corners) instead of uncurved squares. I consider this a positive change and a step forward in GitHub's design.
I also witnessed Microsoft applying this update to GitHub, as I was refreshing at the time that a test was going on. My 2021 tab was fine, but there was an extra section in my 2020 section that had a broken commit graph above the other commit graph, with 5 thick lines of the 5 contribution colors. The font and text size was also really screwed up (only in the 2020 section) overlapping the commit tiles, but it was fixed within 2 hours.
Today, I further worked on my article against Google Chrome. I began to translate the article into different languages today. Ironically, I have to use Google Translate for this, as unfortunately, there are no other good translating services for what I need. I have tried Bing Translate, but it isn't as good, and I have tried DeepL, but it only had 4 languages when I originally tried it (it has more now, but still less than 12, compared to Google Translates 106 languages, as of 2018) machine translation is currently inaccurate, as it is far from perfect. I trust that it is still somewhat readable, but I am going to need contributors to help me find and fix translation errors in all translations from English. Unfortunately, I don't have my own translator yet, so if you want to help, you are going to have to provide sources on the used words, and sources on their usage and guide me through it, as I know very few words in languages other than English and can't form a full sentence in anything but English.
I chose Polish as one of the languages, even though it isn't the most common. One reason was because the top repository in the #degoogle-your-life topic is in Polish, and I wanted to try and connect with the 19 stargazers of this project. The main reason though was to add support for as many languages as possible, so that anyone can get informed on this subject.
I also did the usual work. I was going to expand on it and make monthly renovations, but I ran out of time and focus.
I didn't do very much today.
Today was a better day for development.
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3 years ago I got less done today, but I had a planned document on what to do today. I marked the entries with 2 colors, a red sharpee for the most important entries, and a green highlighter for the optional entries. I finished all the high priority work by 5:31 pm, and earned $10.00, as part of the challenge of finishing before 6:00 pm. I later went on to do the other planned work, which I finished at 8:30+ pm. It would have been completely perfect if I didn't forget to make a status file for today.
Today, I further worked on my article against Google Chrome. I began to translate the article into different languages today. Ironically, I have to use Google Translate for this, as unfortunately, there are no other good translating services for what I need. I have tried Bing Translate, but it isn't as good, and I have tried DeepL, but it only had 4 languages when I originally tried it (it has more now, but still less than 12, compared to Google Translates 106 languages, as of 2018) machine translation is currently inaccurate, as it is far from perfect. I trust that it is still somewhat readable, but I am going to need contributors to help me find and fix translation errors in all translations from English. Unfortunately, I don't have my own translator yet, so if you want to help, you are going to have to provide sources on the used words, and sources on their usage and guide me through it, as I know very few words in languages other than English and can't form a full sentence in anything but English.
I chose Polish as one of the languages, even though it isn't the most common. One reason was because the top repository in the #degoogle-your-life topic is in Polish, and I wanted to try and connect with the 19 stargazers of this project. The main reason though was to add support for as many languages as possible, so that anyone can get informed on this subject.
The article is now in 10 languages. I have been getting a really high number of people/bots cloning the repository, with 31 cloners, and 19 unique visitors, but with February 6th 2021 data, I only have 1 view. I am extremely confused. I haven't downloaded this repository once yet, and it says 19 people have. Are view counts on a repositories traffic interdependent with the number of times a project is cloned.
I also did the usual work.
I didn't do very much today.
Today was a better day for development.
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3 years ago I got much less done today,
Today, I further worked on my article against Google Chrome. However, I started working on the drafts for an article about ChromeOS. It is currently under development, just 5 things need to be fixed, then I will release V1.0 and create the repository. Today was a hard day for development, but a good day for my health, although the good day starts tomorrow.
I got my first COVID-19 vaccine today. I didn't have any side effects. From family experience, the second shot gave my grandpa the flu for an hour, which is so much more livable than dying completely alone in a ventilator from COVID-19, where not even the doctors can hear your final screams. I feel like getting COVID-19 is one of the 5 worst ways to go out. If you are able to get the vaccine, you should try and get it. It is much better than a gruesome death. From personal experience with my family, there have been no side effects with the first shot, and only minor side effects with the second shot. Also, from personal experience, if you are getting a vaccine, be prepared for it and don't think too much of it. Every time a doctor or nurse gave me a vaccine, it has been painless, unless I were to look at the needle. If you look away from the needle and never make sight of it until after you are done, it will be very painless. This time when getting a vaccine, I didn't feel any sting. The last few times with this strategy, I had a mild sting. You might be sore for a while afterwards (I wasn't as sore this time) but shots really aren't that painful. I got the pfizer vaccine today. Thank you to the people working at BioNTech in Hainz Germany who created this vaccine, and for the US pfizer distribution.
I had some issues with tension and focus today, this is not related to the vaccine, I have been having this issue for a few weeks now due to something else. It made it hard to work today until I finally got into a better mood at around 4:00 pm, and began writing better documentation and planning better.
However, I got out of the house for a long time tonight and really fell behind on work. I had to stay up past 10:40 pm to finish my journaling, all the while I couldn't listen to music, as my computer was acting weird and not letting me enable bluetooth, the toggle was completely broken. I am unsure if this is a coincidence, but every time I plug my laptop into a different outlet, it has some problem, like the battery dropping 2-8% instantly, or bluetooth not working.
I wasn't able to finish my Git-image based tasks or start a project I wanted to start.
I didn't do very much today.
Today was a better day for development.
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3 years ago I had a difficult, but successful day today. I worked on 2 new projects that I have been drafting, which is the next article in my February anti-Google campaign, and another project that can help people switch from one operating system to another by checking the programs you have installed, checking to see if they will work on the other system, and provide alternatives.
I also got work done on the Git-Image portion of my work. I stayed up really late to finish tonight. I have been dealing with a severe breathing problem today caused by anxiety, where it is harder to breath. I broke down further and further, and eventually needed over an hour and a half to recover.
I am now going to focus on finding another person to collaborate with me. What I am doing is no longer safe, and it is causing significant mental and physical damage. One person isn't supposed to manage a giant organization by themselves. I need help by getting a good contributor who can be a friend that helps get to the stuff I can't get to.
I also did the usual work. I was going to expand on it and make monthly renovations, but I ran out of time and focus.
Today was a better day for development.
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3 years ago I had a very difficult day today. My health has deteriorated badly, and now I don't have enough health to hold my anxiety back, so I had anxiety attacks for nearly 11 hours straight today. It has been incredibly hard for me to breath correctly (despite my oxygen level being 96%) I am still breathing enough, but I have been hurting my lungs. This has greatly impacted my work today, as I was in too much pain for most of the day to do anything, which is highly unlike me.
I was finally able to recover past 8:30 pm. I found that a good remedy to my crippling anxiety is humor. I forked the GitHub DMCA repository and wiped it, and made a joke about DMCA. I did a pull request, but rejected it, as I wanted to further the joke. Somebody the next day didn't appear to like the joke and gave me a dislike, but I am going to try to ignore it, as the humor was worth it. I found the joke funny, it wasn't destructive, and it was a relief to not be in pain for the rest of the night because of it (by the way, please do not go out of your way and attack them for this, they probably just didn't get the joke, which is fine)
I got very little done today. I was still able to get my journaling done. I am having an early emergency appointment with my therapist tomorrow.
Today was a very bad day for development.
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3 years ago I had a much better day today, but I still didn't get as much done, as I dragged my gaming session on too long again. For a few weeks, I have strongly been considering how I will limit my gaming schedule, I might end up dropping this game (Idle Miner Tycoon) as it is wasting too much of my time.
My breathing has greatly improved today, and I have been in a better mood overall. The appointment with my therapist went well, and I got a little more done today, but still not as much as I wanted to get done. I got the usual work done, along with more reviewing of the Ruffle project, as I have been trying all I can to help with it. I forgot to mention that I did a hard drive backup yesterday. I wasn't able to clear as much space this time.
I got the image uploads I held off yesterday done, and finished my journaling project for the day. I also updated an important health resource for myself my food index as I wanted to mark the differences, benefits, and purpose of the rewrite.
Today was a much better day for development.
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3 years ago I had a good day with development today, but I didn't do very much to my projects. I have been actively doing code review on ruffle-rs/ruffle again today, I have been giving words of encouragement, reviewing pull requests and giving my thoughts. I feel good doing this. I have also been learning Rust better in the process and learning how to better respond to people. I learned the usage of parentheses in Rust today, as it is a bit strange compared to Python. I have also learned that “type safety” is not equivalent to “syntax error based on typing semantics that causes a program to crash” so I have adjusted my usage of this word
Today is my 216th day of using a Linux desktop, and I still have the PTSD from Windows. I am still in constant fear of the blue screens and the unfixable (unfixable as in I don't want to bother to fix them, as there were always at least 10 new errors every day, so by the time I could fix half the errors (5) from one day, I would have an additional 40 errors to fix) error messages. So far on Linux, I haven't had any bad error messages (dialog popups don't count, and common fixable errors don't count) and no kernel panics. It feels so great not having to use Windows 10 anymore.
I have been doing very poorly this month. It is already the 10th of February, and I haven't reached 1000 commit yet.
I have also been gaining a lot of new followers recently, I have gained 3 followers in 2 days.
I am going to try and go to bed early tonight, so I can wake up early and get more done tomorrow.
Today was a decent day for development.
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3 years ago I had a pretty hard night last night. Unfortunately, this made my day a lot harder. I am not sure if I got any sleep last night, but I might have gotten about 3 hours. I feel like I was asleep from around 2:00 am to 5:00 am, but at the same time, I felt like I was awake at this time. It was a very difficult night.
Last night, I did something on GitHub on my phone after quitting for the day. Logging in on my phone through a web browser feels really good. Tonight, I decided to follow over 1000 users from the CPython (Python) repository in hopes of getting more followers and getting at least 1 person to help actively contribute with me, as I have been trying everything I can to get help lately. I had to be careful with this. After observing about 3 bots that did similar things to me (they might have not been bots) I noted that you can only follow up to around 230 people at a time (in a 5-10 minute period) without GitHub noticing, so I followed a maximum of 120 people at a time, then took a break. I stopped for the night at past 1000. I didn't want to cause a deeply negative impact, and I also didn't want to just seem like a bot who follows people, but I might have done too much. I did this, also because I learned a social media psychology trick, where when the number of people you are following greatly exceeds the amount of people who are following you, people tend to want to follow. Also, since I reached thousands of people, some of them followed back. I went from 21 follower to 40 by 3:40 pm the next day. It was a little bit disappointing, because there still isn't anyone interacting with me, and even worse, a documentation thing I have been doing has been completely ruined by what I did last night, as now over 90% of the people I am following aren't being linked to as being followed. It is an easy trick, but with the current results, I don't recommend doing it yourself, as it ruins the ratio of followers to following, and can make you really seem like a bot.
This weekend, I plan on experimenting with a custom network, as I have been getting more into networking lately. I plan on creating a network running pi-hole to experiment with it. Edit; nevermind, I don't have a raspberry pi, and a ton of research is needed so I can confine all the DNS changes to a single Wi-Fi network, as I could really screw everyone in the house by blocking access to 99.9% of the sites they visit.
I didn't contribute to the ruffle-rs project today, I felt like I was trying too hard, and that I needed to better learn code review before doing something like this again.
I have been in a lot of stomach sickness today yet again, along with severe nausea, but no anxiety attacks today. I am hoping it will eventually get fixed, I am still looking for solutions, but I have been in agony for 19 days now.
I had to work late tonight, but I will be going to bed as early as I can tonight. I can still do so much with so little sleep.
Today was a decent day for development.
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3 years ago So last night, I got suspended on GitHub. I knew that the consequence for mass-following people would be suspension, as I saw the follower bots get suspended and come back. I just didn't expect a long delay. I had to verify my email address, and now I know not to follow anyone at random. I am fearful of a second strike, so I laid low today. This now 100% confirms that this strategy is bad. I would go and unfollow, but it would take far too long. Don't do it yourself. I wonder why it doesn't just stop you at some point instead of suspending you.
When trying to receive the verification email, I found that my ProtonMail inbox was completely full with nearly 95000 emails from GitHub. I rarely check my email, so I didn't know that this was such a huge consequence when watching projects. Whenever I star a project, I also watch it, so there were 1-8 emails being sent per minute. I thought it was only for things like pull requests and new releases, not every single action that is done to any part of the project. Unfortunately, ProtonMail has no way of deleting more than 50 emails at a time, so I had to configure the filter to automatically mark GitHub notifications as spam, and then I can delete the spam folder once it gets full again, as I can just clear it. Unfortunately, it is still really slow, and takes an hour to delete 9000 emails.
Today was the end of the 19 days of suffering I have endured.
I hardly did anything today, I mostly laid low and relaxed
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3 years ago I didn't have the best day with development today. I got the very basics done, but not much else. Tonight, I had a new experiment, and it required alarms. I found that my laptop didn't come with a clock app by default, which is weird. I feel like this is one of those apps that should have been installed by default, and that if it couldn't be installed, other apps like Thunderbird, Thai X Terminal (Doesn't work for me) and the games shouldn't have been installed before this. There weren't any good clock apps on the Ubuntu software store, so I had to go with GNOME clocks. I played around with it for a bit. Some of the disadvantages it has are things like not being able to set a custom sound for alarms, and better options for snoozing alarms (once I snooze an alarm, it is basically the same as dismissing it) I like some things about it. I experimented with time zones on the clock app, and created a list of world clocks for most time zones around the world. The lowest time zone I could find was Hawaii (UTC -2 hours) and the furthest time zone I could find was New Zealand (UTC +21 hours) I later found out that the world clocks appear in the notification pane:
I didn't get too much done today, and I held off my journaling really late. I watched a movie with part of my family, as my parents were out of the house tonight. I later realized that the alarm system for the project I was doing was 1 hour off, and that I failed the project. Later on, after getting halfway through my journaling, I had a severe panic attack, and it caused a huge incident. For safety reasons, I can't talk about this any further right now.
This incident broke some of my repetition, the repetition it broke was the Khan Academy cycle. It is extremely rare for a consecutive project to break on me, and it took me a while to process how to get past this. I had to put off a lot of things to save time and recover tonight.
I hardly did anything today, I didn't have a very good day with development
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3 years ago Today is Valentines Day 2021. I didn't get out of the house at all again today, other than going around my own property. I had another difficult day today. I had a calming start, and procrastinated a little bit, but eventually got work done. I didn't do anything but the very basics. I had a huge struggle to start my journal, and I had lots of panics when trying to start. I worked late, and eventually finished late.
Not much was done on GitHub today. I am still fearful of following anyone. As part of my F4F (Follow for Follow) rule, I followed 2 recent people who followed me who I hadn't followed first. I am being very careful who I follow. I am hoping this doesn't cause an issue.
I hardly did anything today, I didn't have a very good day with development again today.
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3 years ago Today, I archived my GitHub status posts into my profile repository. This task has been held off for a while. It felt good finally getting this task done.
I got to work earlier today, and was much more focused and in a much better mood. Yesterday, I adopted a new work model, which is that programming commits are not a daily requirement, but have to be done at least once every 3-5 days. This was done to reduce some stress. The idea is that code commits aren’t a daily requirement, but a every 3-5 days requirement. I have noticed that most people on GitHub don’t commit changes every single day, so I decided to go a bit easier on myself and lax the requirement, so ideas aren’t as forced. The usual daily tasks are still required.
Yesterday, I went back into food research, and I have decided to go Vegetarian again, a second attempt. I was again reminded of the barbaric agriculture process. I hope to make it permanent this time. If it was possible, I would go vegan, but there are way too many dependencies for me, and it will limit me by over 80% it will stick better this time, as I have become even more persistent on tasks since the last attempt (lasted: 1 day)
I am going to bed early again tonight. I am proud of my accomplishments today. Another new daily task has been added, which is to archive status updates.
Today was a great day for development.
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3 years ago Today was a day where I had to do work besides plain uploads, so I continued my degoogling campaign today, along with the usual work.
For my gaming schedule, I cut Idle Miner Tycoon and saved myself lots of time today, although I played the other game (Bit City) a lot longer. I have officially moved this game slot from weekly to monthly. The new schedule is that I play this game on the first Tuesday of each month. Some other games that are causing conflict with my schedule that I am working on are AdVenture Communist/AdVenture Capitalist.
I have noticed that GitHub has been processing data much faster as of yesterday and today. Normally, it takes 4-5 minutes to process 100 files, and now I am able to have the files processed over 2x faster than I upload them. For reference, it took less than 5 seconds to process 16 files.
I have noticed a massive performance and mood increase in the past 2 days. I don't know what caused it. Today, I cleared a lot of my notes out, but a lot of work still needs to be done. I made progress again today. I am hoping to continue this level of performance.
I am going to bed early again tonight (before 11:00 pm) so I quit early. I got nearly everything I wanted to get done today done.
Today was another great day for development.
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3 years ago I wasn't as productive today, but I still got some work done. I got distracted very easily today.
Today, I did the usual tasks, and worked heavily on articles that are part of my anti-Google campaign, which is relatively successful (so far, all 16 articles have gained 300+ views, 2 stars (18 when counting the ones I added) and 80+ clones from February 3rd 2021 to February 17th 2021. This may not seem like much, but it is the record for the month, as most people who visit my profile don't stay very long)
Today, I spent nearly 2 hours writing an article on YouTube. I originally wanted to be careful on this, but I decided to go all out. If I had more time, and had the desire to continue writing, I would have gone further today. Also, my article on Google Classroom received a star before I even added the article, so I had to write an article for that as well today, which I spent nearly an hour on. Both articles will still be updated with new details, and also translated into many different languages, so there is a lot to go.
This morning, my laptop had a minor malfunction. When I used Windows 10, the malfunctions happened at least twice a week, so it is nice to have so few problems that require a restart. I noticed that something was using my microphone, but I couldn't find what. I checked every program and closed every program. I tried an answer on ask ubuntu but it didn't help. I also noticed that my F1-F4 keys weren't working, so I decided to restart, and it fixed both issues. Windows was worse. I remember on my final months of Windows 10, the keyboard would completely stop functioning (except for the power button) and restarting would trigger an update (basically, in this time period, Windows seemed like it was purposefully making my computer inoperable to force me into updating) this happened multiple times, and the operating system did other bad things as well.
I am going to bed early again tonight.
Today was a decent day for development.
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3 years ago I did a lot better again today. I got a bit done, including the usual work, writing 3 articles for my anti-Google campaign, and doing ProjectWiki work, along with some other extra tasks.
I continued my anti-Google campaign today. The articles weren't as high quality today (except for the first one) as I was set out to write 3 instead of 2 today, and couldn't find as much info. However, when researching AMP, I came across something that is now traumatizing me:
Moore's law (semiconductor capacity doubles every 2 years) is predicted to end in 2025. At the same time, Wirth's law (software is becoming slower more rapidly than hardware is getting better) is still going. With a mix of both of these together, it could spell really bad things for Computer Science. I am sure we won't go back to writing on cave walls, but something is going to have to be done about this. No more excuses. Our previous excuses were "Skeumorphism was removed, as it uses too much memory" yet at the same time, the flat interface uses up over 10x as much memory as that of a highly advanced UI (such as Windows Vista (less than 200 megabytes), or OS X 10.8 (less than 180 megabytes)) I fear that when this happens, more features are going to be removed, computers might be only to handle 1 program at a time, and the storage required for the 100+ gigabyte video games and other software will use up all the digital storage we have (compared to entire games that take over 30 minutes to beat and playable for weeks on end, taking up only 30 kilobytes (graphics, sound, and all) back in 1985 (like Super Mario Bros)) This can be mitigated if we start prioritizing performance over time again, and unfortunately it seems a bit rare. The Linux Kernel and many other open source solutions are in the right direction, but it could go bad.
Today was a Thursday, and I spent a bit more time playing games, but it didn't affect my productivity very much. I have now noted from 4 days of experiments that sleeping outside of my room causes me to be more performant and focused (the 3 days I slept outside my room, I did exponentially better, the 1 day I slept in my bed, I did exponentially worse) I am trying to figure out if it is coincidence or not.
My laptop did not malfunction again today. I have also noticed that in the past 2 days (since February 17th 2021) something has changed, and my laptop is using a lot less CPU (it is staying below 10% overall CPU usage across all 8 cores for most of the time, originally, it stayed between 15 and 25% CPU usage across my octo-core CPU at all times) due to this, battery life has been better, and the fan has hardly been kicking on.
I am going to bed early again tonight.
Today was a good day for development.
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3 years ago I had a more difficult day today. I got inconsistent sleep last night, and I have been performing poorly today. I got the usual tasks done, along with the creation of 2 new articles in my anti-Google campaign, and an improvement I planned to the main anti-Google campaign repository.
Earlier this afternoon, I went to preview an SVG file (499 KB) I created about a month ago to test InkScape. I didn't realize that the image was actually a forkbomb (I classify it as malware for my computer) and the moment I opened it, my computer began to freeze up. I rushed to close it. If I was just a couple hundred milliseconds off, my laptop would have crashed. The image was above 16K resolution and contained improper SVG formatting. My computers RAM filled within a couple seconds, and the SWAP reached 1.9 GiB/2.0 GiB before I closed it. In total, the forkbombing process used over 4 gigabytes of memory in less than 6 seconds. I find it pretty ironic and funny that this image was a memory problem, as the image itself was about how inefficient the memory usage of another program (Google Chrome) is. I would show off the image, but I fear any way of viewing it will result in a forkbomb, and there is no way I can safely preview the image at the moment. I spent over 30 minutes getting SWAP usage back down to 532 mebibytes (MiB) RAM wasn't as much of an issue, as it cleared the moment I closed the image.
GitHub had a small change today, where new file commits tell you which branch you are on, which is understandable, but there is also now a "cancel changes" button, which I am confused on why it was added, as it just seems like a waste of a tab key press. Normally if I make an error, I would press the back button. It was a noticeable change, and now I am unsure if the button existed before, but said "cancel" instead of "cancel changes" these UI changes are weird.
I customized my contacts a bit later tonight, and finished up what I needed to be done, but I didn't go for any extra work tonight. I had a medical issue earlier that impaired me for a while. Further information will be available at a later date (??? or May 14th 2040)
Today was a below decent day for development.
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3 years ago I spent over 6 hours today playing 2 games and relaxing. It was a bit bad for my productivity, but I needed the break. Due to how the schedule is with my family on Saturdays, I will have an extra 1 hour and 30 minutes to work. If GitHub didn't have the recent change of fast file processing, I would have been completely screwed today.
Last night, I entered the first trial decision of the early public release of a sensitive journaling module. The decision is required to take at least 2 months (by April 20th 2021) and will last a maximum of 20 months (until October 20th 2023)
I stayed up a bit later tonight, and got everything I needed to get done. I still had a decent day. Today, I also found a way to properly format (which repository to add them to and where) and upload my GitHub notes to GitHub. They are an additional layer of documentation. I uploaded all data up to yesterday (todays data will be uploaded tomorrow, or at a later date)
I didn't really do much today. I took a day to relax and go easy on myself, as I have really put myself through an insane amount of work, and I need to register to myself that it is OK to take a break every once in a while (although not a full break, I have still been going for over 1400 consecutive days with no days off, even when I had the flu)
Today was another below decent day for development.
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3 years ago I have been in a much better mood recently. My mood was pretty good into the day. Some things that improved my mood were nostalgia from the Samsung: over the Horizon leitmotif songs, and the XPS 13 Ubuntu first boot animation (which I have considered on and off again to make my laptop do that every time I boot it up. Sure, it would take another 33 seconds, but it would add so much to it. I really am not in a rush for my computer to turn on, unless it takes more than a minute. I feel like it is something that I wouldn't get tired of, and in the case of when I would, I would just disable it.
However, past 2:40 pm, I started to have some environmental issues, and my completely happiness went away for several hours (although I was still in a good mood, with about 42-78% happiness, I wasn't 100% happy) this further got worse when I decided to hold off work for 1 project, which I can justify:
I held off work on my degoogle campaign today. I have noticed that articles haven't been as high quality recently, due to them being forced on me. I planned on doing 2 articles a day up to March 12th 2021 or later, but today I just decided to hold it off. This will delay the current roadmap to March 13th 2021, and it is likely going to be delayed further, as I don't think I can keep up the pace for this many days in a row. It is justified. As much as I would like to be a machine, that just isn't possible at the moment, and I need a break from time to time.
Additionally, my laptops battery has been having increasing problems this week. On day 1 with this laptop, the batterys reported capacity was 96.0% | recently, it has been getting worse, and on one day this week, it lost a full 4% capacity. My laptop can no longer last 4 hours with constant usage before having to be plugged in again (100% to 25%) over the course of my laptops life, the capacity has dropped from 96.0% to 83.6%, a full 12.4% reported drop. Unfortunately, Dell decided to make this laptop similar to a MacBook lighter than air, so I don't even know if it is possible to replace the battery without screwing everything up.
I worked on the private project a bit in depth today, so not as much development was done publicly on GitHub. I have also had a sharp increase in making a specific error (accidentally doing some button combination and publishing a commit before finishing the documentation) it is an odd project, and I quit early, as it is something I should spend less time on.
I tried out a "high performance multi-tasking" brain mode last night, I don't know why I stopped doing it. The pros outweigh the cons (slight increase in error rate, slight tension increase) I didn't have as many projects I wanted to do today, so I had a lesser high performance multi-tasking mode.
I have an appointment with my therapist again tomorrow. I am going to wake up earlier for it. I am hoping tomorrow will be a better day.
My headphones finally died today at 8:39 pm, they lasted nearly 2 months without having to be charged. There was a bit of an issue finding the charger, as I haven't charged them since early January, and now I am going to have to wait ~12.5 hours for them to charge. They should be fully charged by 9:36 am tomorrow. I really would recommend this pair of headphones: Letscom 100 hour bluetooth headphones. They only cost $30.00, and they are the best pair of headphones I have ever had. With this rate of battery life (even with daily usage of 30 minutes to 12 hours a day) I will only need to charge the headphones 7-8 times a year. Here is my estimate info on the charging time: estimated 12.5 hours to full charge (based on statistic: 15 minutes of charging for 2 hours of battery = 1/8 charging ratio = 100 hours/8 ratio = 12.5 hours of estimated charging time. Source: https://gadgetunder100.com/how-long-do-wireless-headphones-take-to-charge
Due to issues today, I had to stay up pretty late to get everything I needed to get done, done. This didn't seem like a problem last night, so hopefully it isn't one tonight as well.
I worked on the basic required tasks today, along with some new image projects (recursion, battery) and other work.
Today was another below decent day for development.
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3 years ago I did an unusual pattern of working today, doing part of my GitHub work first, due to the profile already being open from my therapist visit.
So last night, I found out that I can get paid for my albums on BandCamp via donation. Currently, it is the only way I can get payment online. So I decided to partially revive the MEDOS project and add a link to the album.
I have decided to do my Git-Image work (work done for Git-Image profile repositories, such as Tiny Tower images, GNOME System Monitor images, GitHub images, etc.) before 1:30 pm each day. It is really helpful to get these out of the way early
I created some new GitHub organizations today, I was really surprised that some of these names weren't taken. I now can categorize my projects even better.
I have recently finalized my plotting for a plan I have been developing for a week, which is a nostalgia-based operating system for a special device that lets you experience nostalgia in the most strong way possible. I have figured out how to manipulate the human mind with various factors to make someone actually feel like they are in one of their past positive memories. Research is still needed, I am still testing this. I have been researching this since 2015 (the year I experienced nostalgia for the first time, and have been experiencing on a daily basis ever since) unfortunately, the device needed to make the operating system work isn't technically possible yet, some other projects need development first, notably:
I was a bit all over the place today, and I got a lot done. I started a huge process for a project (NostaliaProject) where I will go through tons of media tomorrow. I have been doing research on this advanced idea, where there is a device designed to give people completely pure nostalgia for up to 12 hours a week. One of the main things that is blocking me from truly starting is one of the technologies (CompuSmell) is not yet developed enough to make this work.
I got a lot done today, and early on. I worked a lot on the Nostalgia project and the new operating system, along with the creation and setup of a couple GitHub organizations. I also wrote 2 more articles against Google, but to of low quality, even with a 1 day hiatus. They had some effort put into them, I held them off until the end, and I was in a rush, so they didn't turn out as good as they should have on their first draft.
I am starting to get active interaction with my projects. Today, while working on the NOstalgia operating system project, a GitHub user left a star withn 30 minutes of its creation. This process normally takes 7 days to 365 days before this recent explosion due to my 1.2k following.
Today was a good day for development.
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3 years ago GitHub had a nice notable change today, syntax highlighting is now present while writing new files. This is incredibly helpful, and I am glad it finally got added.
Today, I continued normally and did further work to the nostalgia project, and created 4 new degoogle articles. For whatever reason, the one on Google Analytics became extremely glitched out, and had problems nearly everywhere. I couldn't star the project, I couldn't get away from the "can't get commits at this time" message, I could fork it, but I had to do it directly, and I couldn't star the fork (I could only "watch" the fork and the original project) further: discussions were broken {I couldn't downvote or upvote, but the downvote button was removed, I couldn't pin, I couldn't add emotes} I had to refresh before doing anything, as it would get stuck trying to load the file. I even tried deleting the repository and recreating it, but it still had the same issues (possibly due to the name) I have never had such a glitchy repository. There was a lot of broken ness there.
I caught up on some downloads today that I have held off for a bit, and I changed my desktop wallpaper to this beautiful picture from Pakistan, which I feel should be the Bliss wallpaper for Linux. Windows XP Bliss is still extremely iconic, but I feel like this one would be good for Linux, and it could help some people overcome the bias of Middle East Asia being all deserts and having little to no greenery. This was the most beautiful picture from nature I have seen all year so far. I also organized my desktop today in preparation for this being my new wallpaper for a while. See the image here
I worked further on the nostalgia project today, making it a more functional index of nostalgia research and a source of personal nostalgia as well for when I am feeling down, or when I feel like there is more bad in the world than good/nothing good left in the world (when I get too depressed)
I did my work in the same order as yesterday, where Git-image work was done first. I had another very successful day today. I wanted to reach 153+ commits again today, but unfortunately, I didn't make it to this goal. I feel like it will be hard to get this far again very soon, as I had an advantage with the Nostalgia Project and the resources it has (the project had enough capable commits to reaching 153+ commits per day)
Today was another good day for development.
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3 years ago My statement on not reaching 153+ commits again anytime soon has been completely obsoleted today. I had an extremely productive day with development across many projects. I did the usual image work, significantly improved my degoogle campaign by creating 34 new article repositories and starting them, doing more big contributions to the Nostalgia Project, upgrading my life archive project to span across the Myrick bloodline (an option I have been preparing for for nearly a week) and creating a root life archive repository.
I started with naming and uploading screenshots early. I got a lot done, and was in a good mood, although a little stressed and depressed at times.
When creating the new article projects, I went slowly, and received no corrupt repositories. However, GitHub was jumping around from 5883, 5884, to 5897 commits on my profile page (when it should have flipped to 5900) and after several attempts to correct it and a 20+ minute wait, I had to get the pictures through my alt GitHub account, so that I could continue working.
I have been really wired and outgoing today. I got a lot done, although I am going to bed a bit earlier tonight. I didn't want to stop working, but I am getting tired and need to go to bed for tomorrow. I feel tomorrow could come close to today productivity-wise.
Today was an extremely day for development.
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3 years ago I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I did an upgrade to the basis of my journaling project, making it the founding member of a Myrick family archive project. This shouldn't affect the journaling project very much, it will only serve as a brand name platform for it.
I got a lot done again today across various projects. I expanded my degoogling campaign further, although now over 65% of the repositories don't have a functional draft of their article yet, and I wasn't able to make any new articles today. It will take me until at least late March 2021 to fix this.
I also worked further on the nostalgia project today, and my usual Thursday game picture uploads. I played 1 game (City Story) for the longest duration to date today. The game is very enjoyable to me for some reason.
I am happy with how much progress I have been making lately, but it is also upsetting to me, as I raised the bar for myself a little too high by doing this (65 commits doesn't mean a rise in activity now, it takes more than 100 commits for the first rise now)
I spent a lot of time organizing projects today by forking them to organizations. I wasn't able to write any new articles today, but I still got a lot done again today.
Today was another extremely day for development.
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3 years ago My productivity waned today. I have procrastinated a lot today, and didn't get as much done. Yesterday, my laptops keyboard started to have problem, and they have gotten much worse today. I didn't expect my keyboard to brea sso quicly [Sic] it has been acting weird. The s key doesn't always press, but when it does, it sometimes presses twice, or capitalizes itself (without me pressing CTRL or CAPS LOCK) the K key is having problems along with the J key, and the I, and A keys might also be having problems. It has been a bit stressful, as I don't want to believe that I already broke this laptops keyboard, since it hasn't even been a year yet (it normally takes me 14 months or longer to completely wear out a computer keyboard due to how often I type. If you don't know anybody who casually breaks a keyboard over the course of 14 months from constant usage, now you can say you know at least 1 person)
I worked on various new GitHub organizations today (just 3) I use them as a way of organizing and categorizing projects.
GitHub added a new small feature today, where files can be attached when editing a markdown file. I have not yet tested how this works, I don't know where it would place the file.
I decided to make my GitHub star and follows document into a daily GitHub progress report. It has been expanded today, and now has its own template.
I didn't get very much done today. I spent over 2 hours today forking and starring projects and setting up new organizations. There wasn't much I planned on doing, but I have noted that I need to work on various aspect of the SNU Programming Tools platform, as it is severely underdeveloped.
I wrote 2 new degoogle article, after some not wanting to do it, resulting in some poor draft documents. I feel like I should stick to 1 a day instead of 2.
Today was an OK for development.
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3 years ago I got my 2nd COVID-19 shot today. Within the next 5 weeks, I will have ~95% immunity to COVID-19. I didn't have any side effects from it today, but another family member had lots of nausea and flu-like symptoms the next day for just a couple hours. I might get that as well, but it is still much better than the painful, lonely, helpless death of a COVID-19 patient.
I had a pretty difficult time working today. I spent over 6 hours playing the 2 games I play on Saturday (AdVenture Communist and AdVenture Capitalist) I hope to eventually curb this addiction. If it wasn't for the event going so slowly, I would have played even longer.
I got some work done today, but was a bit slow with writing documentation.
I cleaned my laptop last night, and now I can rule out the "laptop was just dirty" as the problem for the S, J, and K keys. I don't know how I will repair the keyboard. It would be nice to get a laptop with a mechanical keyboard (if a good one with all my specs existed) I had some times today where the key worked completely fine for 5 minutes, then went back to its old state of functionality.
I still got some work done today. I had some new project ideas today, 2 good, and 1 good but a bit controversial. I thought of an idea of a software tool that digs through your social media and finds racist/sexist/stupid posts and reports them to the user. I decided to go ahead and build it, but I had to make some notes for it.
Again, if GitHub didn't improve their servers recently to allow faster file processing, today would have been much harder.
Today was a decent day for development.
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3 years ago Today was a slow day for me. I slept in really late (10:55 am) and struggled a bit in the morning. I have been feeling pretty out of it today.
With GitHub work today, I resumed work on the code-distancing project after a long hiatus (October 9th 2020) I upgraded the project a lot today, and added a new joke theme. However, it was very time consuming, and it caused me to delay journaling work.
My S key is still having problems, but the other keys are doing fine now. The S key is having ~5 minute moments where it has no error, then I have to deal with it randomly capitalizing, doubling the amount of s's, or simply not registering. It is really frustrating.
Today is the last day of February 2021. I managed to get a ratio of 100+ commits/day for the month, I have been doing badly commit-count wise for most of the month. I can't believe it is already going to be March 2021 tomorrow.
A small thing I noticed: the influx of new followers from my following spree a couple weeks ago has died down. It started with over 20 followers per day, but it has gotten slower and slower. I didn't get any new followers today (as of 7:44 pm) and yesterday I got 2.
I also installed an anti-virus today, as I need one (Linux can get viruses just like any other operating system) I am thinking that there might be some malware on my laptop, as my screen has also been flashing today when transitioning between GitHub tabs. If there isn't, I should still take it safe.
Tonight, I also discovered the /public/ directory, which completely changes some things for me. I got a new fresh start as a file system. I would make it a public network, but I am hesitant at the moment, as I already have enough technical problems at the moment (S key not working correctly) and I don't want to add more until I fix the current issue.
Today was a decent day for development.
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3 years ago 
Daily status - February 2021
This is the daily status thread for February 2021. Daily status posts will be put daily (or when I get to it) below this post.
A little update for now: I feel a lot more organized compared to December 2020, but these status posts still prove to be useful. Again, this is not how GitHub issues are meant to be used on programming projects, but for personal projects like a GitHub profile repository, it is perfectly acceptable.
Click here to see last months daily status posts