Jack

Why am I getting newspapers from Reform UK in my letterbox? Can they go away please. I hate them so much. I actually get a wave of anger inside whenever they show up in my life. 😭

I'm going split out each page, send each page back via freepost so they have to foot the bill.

I've slightly altered my Anki vocab deck to provide reading hints and its helped a tonne with remembering the reading aspect of vocabulary! I thought id share this (low effort, one-take) video showing how it works. It's a simple modification to the front card type.

The new Tesla Roadster is probably the most stupid product I have seen in a long time. Would be cool if it was engineering project for a competition but it's actually being marketed for sale, and I reckon you won't be getting your deposit back when it doesn't arrive without great friction.

"I don't need JP subs to immerse in anime for Japanese" *Turns on subs* OMG maybe I do 😂

Has everyone's boilers broken down at the same time as mine as well everywhere it swamped! I can't find a booking for an engineer to come over. This is poopy big time. 😂🥶

When you shake a can and open it it fizzes more not because pressure increased but because you've mixed the CO2 in creating lots of mini suspended bubbles. These act as thousands of nucleation sites, like a mento mint but gas. The trick isn't to tap or do anything fancy, just let the bubbles go.

The tapping thing is pretty much placebo. It doesn't really help. Maybe some bubbles that have attached to the can's inner walls will float to the top and go but the real problem is all those suspended bubbles.

I used to live and die by functional code in TypeScript. I'd avoid mutating a let like the plague, would use maps and filters for everything. But I have really started to like the simplicity of loops and imperative code. 😅 It reads so well. It feels human.

I like to contain the imperative code with functions. So state doesn't leak. Functions are small, start with a bit of state, then return a value. I think what I find works is I make the building blocks of my app more imperative, then composing those imperative pieces in a more declarative way.

I feel like furigana is a liability for my long-term success so I am going to rip it out of my Japanese studies where possible. I know it's handy but in the back of my mind the thought of one day turning it off, and my reading plummets, puts me off it.

That's me not throwing shade at Bunpro - Bunpro is excellent! It lets me disable things I don't like which is perfect. And if someone finds the things I disable useful then that's also fine!

I feel like furigana is a liability for my long-term success so I am going to rip it out of my Japanese studies where possible. I know it's handy but in the back of my mind the thought of one day turning it off, and my reading plummets, puts me off it.

Also in my grammar studies (thankfully, I am new to it so it won't ruin my SRS too much) I am disabling furigana there and also the nuance hints (e.g. it tells me I need an object marker there). Well great, that's most of the learning taken away.

A few times now I hum some Japanese tunes I play on Osu! and now I'm a few months in, I hum a song and replay gibberish in my head but sometimes I realise there's a word I know in that song and then I get a mini "no way" moment. 🤣

In tech the word "smart" is often just a euphemism for the word "spy".

A streak of just 2-3 days of bad study nights with Japanese is really discouraging. Anyone learning, make the process rewarding enough for it to feel motivating but not too easy to barely learn. I find when I tune my study and lift some weights that spark comes back!

I did have a look into Plasma Bigscreen! It looked very cool. I was tempted to just use a Logitech K400 as a "TV remote" with a CEC adapter to make my keyboard control TV volume.

Last step: hardware. 😭 I was looking at Intel N150 mini PCs, but the price is outrageous. N150 would have been great because it has hardware deciding support for all the latest video codecs like VP9 and AV1.

I did have a look into Plasma Bigscreen! It looked very cool. I was tempted to just use a Logitech K400 as a "TV remote" with a CEC adapter to make my keyboard control TV volume.