Only got ~6hrs of sleep, so try taking 120mg of lycopene...emailed back the WorkTime rep b/c their software isn't tracking any activity, it's crazy for it to be so broken in such a basic way...ask on Upwork forums if identity verification ever needs to happen again...created a Jira board for managing studying system design...started a pastebin system for rehearsing basic system design patterns daily b/c that's been working well for studying DSAs...feeling anxiety today, presumably from all the caffeine yesterday, so I'm going to take some Caffeine+ capsules to see if the extra vitamins in it makes the anxiety go away...run the Algolia HN API request that I found in the hnjobs repo in Postman as a first step towards grabbing those jobs myself...spent 30 minutes feeling anxious about what the next step should be, thinking I should set up the backend pulling jobs, before changing my mind and deciding I want to be able to use a frontend UI to connect my email address and then press a button to have the backend send an Gmail email for me...

Came up with a couple of tasks I can use to get back into working on this. #rhymecraft

Spent an hour trying to figure out what I should work on next.

Got a real good idea on which I spent most of today’s morn and afternoon. Now back working on real stuff, aim is to finish the serverless functions for the new project

did some research about an old idea which I wanted to build

Worked on a first draft of a 1-page "how to hire and manage remote workers" PDF that I want to start sending along with my resume and possibly also use as a marketing thing for my Wailes & Company remote work management consultancy idea...drank a double espresso ~4-5hrs before my expected bedtime, I hope I don't regret this...emailed another YouTuber but w/ a slightly different email approach...continuing to learn how to use Cursor, resolved a deploy.yml error by signing into GitHub after some Googling to understand what was going on...spent a while breaking up my backend code into sub-app directories as a way of setting the stage to work on multiple app ideas at the same time, and also to continue to build familiarity with Go since I'm still very new to it...spending the time after the caffeine high has kind of worn off (3hrs post-double-espresso) just thinking about what I should work on next...decide on some next small steps for tomorrow: 1) be able to query the Algolia HN API and get back the list of HN jobs, 2) set up a new db schema for the jobs app, 3) figure out how to best use ChatGPT to analyze the different job posts (individual queries vs. some kind of batch request).

working with Pandas (Python) to update a few existing scrapers. It's really, really nice but I ran into a bug trying to pull URLs that I don't want to think about right now.

more scraper work and I finally figured out how to work around a few issues I couldn't quite wrap my brain around.

Last week, I finished connecting the 3rd-party LMS to our internal LMS for the bridge-time while I build out the dream version. I'm actually really enjoying not being tied to daily workshops that fit into week sprints. This opens up a lot of interesting opportunities. #pe New videos about screenshot tools, writing a blog and why/where/how, and collaborative white-boarding tools for documentation

Today, I finally automatted adding art to #randomdailyart and #randomdailyartai. Wrote a few scripts that download the art images and data. Upload to bunndycdn. Call chatgpt and get tags and descriptions. Create a new entry in the sites. So much better! I spend an hour a week doing this all manually.

🔨 re-organized my research notes and broke down a few good course websites. seeing some patterns I didn't see before. #mylife

researching some new frameworks

Worked on an open-source tool

spent some time working on the same docs as yesterday. #edu

Worked on a tool for 🦋 #shipit

Working on my friend's project this morning.

started to work on my free tool on #devopsprojectshq

started a new dayjob side project and got about 50% feature complete #mylife

bought twitter.com/deliberatecoder/s… even if I don't care about the orange website. I love learning on how other people do things well #mylife