Tuesday, September 4

[soid]

 I woke up around 8:30, pretty easily. 

Drank coffee while reading a page of Newport's "Slow Productivity"; it seems pretty similar to his deep work ideas. Don't try to do too much, focus on one thing. On the train, I read Kotlin in Action; and kept drinking coffee. 

It was not a super productive start of the week: looking over the tasks, thinking of what I didn’t push to finish on Friday. Two app tickets (Sentry integration and Redux refactoring), and the lay-up trains edge case. 

Will posted a few points about Cursor. Trying it. Seems like a lot of hype around it. But works well for what it’s worth. Select code, CMD+K, describe what to do, and it shows the diff to approve. Karpathy says he stopped writing code and writes only English with it.

Lunch with Angela in the park; we both brought lunch. I brought my last night’s cooked moghrabieh. We talked about vacations, beaches, and mountains. Reminded me to check the ski resort passes for the winter. Epic, or no Epic, – that’s the question. $1K for a dozen resorts on the East Coast, and a few in Europe, and in Japan; could go travel somewhere for a week, and have fun weekends. But Angela says skiing on this coast is absolutely sucks: too icy. So, thinking.

Then, unexpectedly productive – finished those two app’s tasks, and fixed the lay-up train case on the backend; I even had some time to think of what’s next.

Back home by 7. The weather was just great; fresh cool air, not cold, not hot; perfect. I was thinking of hanging out in downtown, doing nothing, chilling in the park, but then I thought nope, let’s go for a run. That was a bit hard to push myself to do, but I finished 5K. 

B already ate early dinner by the time I finished running; so I cooked myself some pasta, and we watched an episode of “Watership Down”. Hazel almost died. “There's no more to fear in death than in the changing of the seasons”. Yay.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Hmm, good life, sad food. I wonder why.

[soid]

Why sad food? I like pasta; the portion size and quality of ingredients is important for me. Moghrabieh was a cool experiment. I just picked up some Lebanese groceries, watched some youtube, and tried cooking it. That turnout not bad at all. I should try other foods from around the world.

[juan_gandhi]

Oh, you do! Totally not my kind of food. I can eat cod with potatoes every day, and cottage cheese for breakfast every morning. But not what you listed.
Tastes vary!

[soid]

I like pasta. All kinds of. Italian pasta, German spaetzle, Japanese ramen, Chinese la men, Thai pad see ew, all kinds of Middle Eastern couscous, Israeli couscous, Lebanese couscous, Moroccan couscous, whatever, all are good and special.