Currently I have a lot of fairly large and complex projects on the go. I like being busy and the projects themselves are interesting, I have been struggling to manage all the details of all the projects as I work on parts of each throughout the day.
I have tried a couple of different methods of organizing notes with varying success. The latest one seems to be working well.
I’m thrilled Blogo has been released for iOS. And I’ve gotten into the beta to try it out!
I picked up a raspberry pi kit while I was in Seattle a while back.
I’ve decided to use it as a developer toolbox of sorts. So far it’s got github lab, ngnix, dashing and node.js running. I’m going to be trying grunt and maybe a few other utilities as time goes on.
I’ll be setting up a dashboard to play around with what dashing can do and maybe some api’s for stuff like aws, trello and the like.
Looking around online i’ve seen a couple of projects that I might look into later on, particularly with the touchscreen addon, top of the list for the projects to try are media box, game emulator and photo frame. Something that took voice commands and would load webcam images from various locations could be cool too.
Monday marked a week of trying out a keto diet.
I’ve lost 11 lbs and 2” off my middle (where I have the most to lose). I’m feeling pretty good too. I’ve noticed more mental clarity and energy. I haven’t noticed any of the “ketosis flu” symptoms many people talk about, that might be because I focused on keeping my salt intake a bit higher than expected and drink a lot of water. A whole lot of water.
At the same time as the diet changes I’ve changed my caffiene consumption as well and the improvement to my sleep has been amazing. After a few days of experimentation I’ve found stopping any caffiene by 5pm lets me get to sleep faster and sleep more throughout the night. Before I’d drink caffiene (usually coke zero) through the evening, even right up until bedtime.
Challenges so far with keto have been limiting carbs, that took about 3 days to really wrap my head around and then putting attention into making sure I get decent nutrients (you know like vitamins n’ minerals).
What’s really made the whole experiment possible is using myfitnesspal, this app (both the website and the iOS application) are easy to use and really help trying to keep track of macros (protein, carbs and fat)
After doing some reading and talking with various people I decided to give a Ketogenic diet a try for a few weeks.
Essentially a Ketogenic diet encourages your bod to switch to a metabolic state in which the body primarily relies on fat for energy.
Paleo Leap a great resource for Paleo diet information also have a really good Guide to Ketosis
I’ve got Windows 10 installed on a couple of machines now (the ones that aren’t Apple machines obviously).
My initial impressions are good. The damn metro interface is gone, or sort of more integrated into what you expect to get when you click ‘Start’. Most of all what I’m really excited about is they’ve finally implemented virtual desktops, and they’ve done it really well.
Otherwise I’ve noticed the OS runs pretty snappy, the cortana integration is fairly smooth as well.
I’m hoping to try out the xbox one integration this week too. That looks amazing.
I’ve been working with chef and splunk a lot over the past year or so and both seem to suffer from a strange problem I haven’t been able to articulate very well, and certainly not concisely, but I’ll give it a go and see how she goes.
Chef lets you manage infrastructure via code, it’s a framework, not a solution which means you need to invest time to learn and then implement the solution that uses the framework.
Splunk is an incredibly powerful log indexer and data visualizer. Getting data into splunk is shockingly easy. Things get complicated when you get stuff in there and want to start digging around, see what you can see.
Both have excellent training and communities available which has been enormously helpful.
I’m going to post a bit about each tool as I struggle work at getting various tasks done.
Today I’m focusing on trying to get unit/integration testing working for cookbooks targeting windows.
There are a fairly unreal number of tools involved in a ‘test suite’ for chef
so i’m trying to get my head wrapped around them without getting myself twisted into knots.
First step 1 : How to generate a windows machine and converge it with a particular cookbook
Got the theme thing sorted to my satisfaction, at least for now, don’t want to get trapped in that rabbit hole for too long.
Currently topping the Grok Pile
Well actually not first things since what I’m groking first is tweaks to the wordpress themes so I can add a logged-in-users post form on the main page (for me) and learning about the css classes so i can do what i want with colors
Thus far the docs on the css classes are a bit hard to find. With some trial and error I’ve learned a few things but not as much as I’d like.
Looking for books on Safari Books to illuminate the theme testing process as iteration is currently brutally slow.