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Small Steps toward Music Goals (GHD007)
Monday was the first day of putting my fancy new TRACKER into action. I went down to the office at 7AM and printed out an Emergent Task Timer (ETT, not the ETP) to see how that worked out for the day...
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Podcast Gear Setup Day (GHD008)
Today I did some work debugging network code for the UCLA project, getting a whole bunch of different computers to talk to each other on the same network. Since this is the first time I’ve ever...
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Extended Gear Setup Day (GHD009)
On Tuesday night I made the mistake of eating something before going to bed, giving me terrible heartburn all night. Upon waking I embarked on a 24-hour fast, subsisting on Harney & Sons Cinnamon...
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Breakfast Blowouts and being Satisfied with Less (GHD010)
Thursday started at 5AM, having woken up after only a few hours of sleep because I was excited about a couple ideas related to GHDR goals. Since I had been fasting at that point for 32 hours, I was...
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Making Sleeve Garters (GHD010)
I had a bad case of Friday-itis today, and as I looked upon my list of goals felt hugely indifferent to starting any big software projects. I also didn’t feel like expressing myself in anyway, so that...
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Javascript Rants (GHD012)
I’ve been working on this Javascript project, and with the final trial are coming up on Tuesday we’ve been steadily adding additional features as the researchers think of them. One innocuous request...
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Something I Love: Desktop APM (GHD013)
Being that it’s Valentine’s Day, I’ve decided that today’s Goal Related Activity will be to share something I love, a little utility called Desktop APM (Windows only). It monitors what applications...
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Interviewed on My Remote Office!
The website My Remote Office specializes in interviews with remote workers, and I’m one of them this month! Check it out for my responses to questions like: What time does your workday begin each day?...
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Managing Files, Mysterious Letters, and Eyeballs (GHD014)
I’ve been doing the Groundhog Day Resolution Challenge for two weeks now! From past experience, the two-week mark of ANY project is a critical threshold because (1) the excitement from the novelty of...
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Kicking of Project 1405: Software for Thinking (GHD015)
Today I kicked-off another ten-year goal, Project 1405! This is the “make software for thinking” goal, and since I’ve never made software like this before, it’s going to be a long road. Good thing I...
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Starting a Command Line Utility, Resistance, and Tarot Cards (GHD016)
Wednesday was a very difficult workday. Though yesterday I had kicked-off a major code goal with some excitement, today I felt the opposite of that. I find the process of looking-up how to do sundry...
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Completed Command Line Utility, Mining the Past (GHD017)
Thursday was a good day! I took the time today to connect with people, and everyone was in an upbeat mood. With the lessons of yesterday’s procrastination fresh in my mind, I found it a lot easier to...
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Tweaking Yesterday’s Work for Windows (GHD018)
Friday has been a lazy day of small advances. I was curious whether yesterday’s work would actually run on my Windows workstation, so I did some software installs and looked at upgrading my license of...
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Testing Screencasting Software (GHD019)
Saturday was surprisingly productive, perhaps because it was a Spring-like 55 degrees outside instead of being in the -10s! The major GHDR-related project for the day was setting up screencasting...
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Working with an Editor to Create New Works (GHD020)
Sunday was largely a day spent writing in notebooks and private discussions, but I did finally get to start working on a new writing project with my friend Britt Raybould, a professional editor who...
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Resurrecting my Product Photo Rig (GHD021)
I spent part of Monday cleaning up the living room, mopping the floors and clearing the tabletops. Once the tabletop was clear, it reminded me that I wanted to setup my off-camera flash strobes again...
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Fixing “Subscribe to Comments” Problems
Over the past couple of days I’ve had report of problems with comment subscription: Could not manage subscribed comments; the subscription management page displayed code instead of an actual user...
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Handling Unexpected Problems (GHD022)
I spent a good chunk of time investigating a problem with the “subscribe to comments” feature of the website after receiving a couple of reports about it. The last update of the Subscribe to Comments...
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Game Dev Meetup! (GHD023)
Wednesday was a Social Day, catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen in years. Eric recently released an escape game, a subgenre of adventure game, which you click around a virtual room to solve...
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A Hypothetical Model of My Motivational Circuitry
Today I doodled a model of how my “motivational circuitry” works. It’s a bit silly, but I think it might be an accurate model of how my brain works. The basic idea is that I have a certain amount of...
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