Saturday, January 5, 2019

Saturday, December 29, 2018

  • While old blogs were both professional and personal, I’ll have to keep work information off these public forums. I started blogging (daily) in 2013, but Confluence cannot export entire blogs — just individual posts. RIP.
  • Medium has a nice minimalistic interface.
  • The editor accepts HTML and markdown.
  • HN/FW/PW/NoSQL
    • docker-compose is for multi-container applications.
    • RecursionError will be raised if more than 1000 frames (by default) are recursed in Python.
    • Use pathlib.
    • Falcon is a very fast WSGI framework that I was unaware of: https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/building-very-fast-app-backends-with-falcon-web-framework-on-pypy_594282
    • Writing a year-in-review note to your team can have great benefit: https://visible.vc/blog/wrap-year-right
    • SEO = Search Engine Optimization.
    • Fallacies! https://www.visualcapitalist.com/24-cognitive-biases-warping-reality/

Tuesday, January 1, 2013


  • From 2013-2018 I blogged my activities daily. I found it an extremely useful practice, for many reasons:
    • Reference for management.
    • Reference for review season. It summarized my major accomplishments, doing most of the work for me.
    • Reference for myself. I would search my entire blog almost daily for previous posts with useful information.
  • The time investment to write was worth the value of reference.
  • Most blogs were of the format: (1) Planned (2) Emergent (3) Other. This allowed autoclassification of work.
  • The blog that I posted on daily was Confluence. After I left SpaceX, I lost those blogs, and then I switched to Medium. After Medium, I decided to just switch to a document that I stored on my Google Drive, and edited in-browser via Google Docs. The google doc began to get a bit unwieldy, so I returned to exploration of an explicit blogging service. Blogger is a Google product for this, and integrates with a free domain hosting on blogspot.