Geoff Wozniak @GeoffWozniak@hackers.town

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Doing about 15 words a minute on Colemak home row only. Feel pretty good about it, for the most part. Getting used to the 'e' and 's' has been the toughest part.

Now at the confidence level to type on social media. ;)

Colemak training is going well. As is learning the Ergodox.

Slow, but getting better.

test tense Tennessee

Learning Colemak.

Decided to go with Colemack while I'm at it. Since I have to learn to type again anyway...

Okay Ergodox, here we go.

Bit of luck and I was able to pick up the keyboard today.

Time to learn to type again.

Cats, because they're cute.

Boo. I can't get my keyboard until Monday.

So much for that weekend plan.

The thing about books that attempt to teach you about practical debugging tools is that they rarely talk about the hairy stuff.

You know, the stuff that you'll always run into.

No one cares much about using a debugger to fix a toy binary tree example. How about the stuff where the data structures are structs with a bunch of unions? Deciphering the output without some help is borderline impossible.

Brain won't let go of an issue that came up today. Now ranting in my head.

I'm not sure if I'm enjoying it so much that I want to research it some more, knowing that I need some sleep.

Got the trackball today. It will take a little getting used to, but I can see it working well once I have the split keyboard.

Services automating things has pushed the complexity onto the users.

UPS tried to deliver my keyboard today. I use a PO Box because it's more convenient for me. I was able to enter it as a shipping address when I ordered. UPS doesn't deliver to them and tried to deliver to my place instead.

Turns out when they called, my phone rebooted due to an update.

No delivery notice was left.

Not sure what the status is, so I check the site. Nothing helpful unless I have a delivery notice.

I call UPS. I pick what I feel is the most appropriate menu (delivery). It says that I have to supply the first few digits of the delivery notice number or say, "I don't have one."

So, I say, "I don't have one."

Response: "You need the number on the delivery notice."

Shitshow.

Neat-o.

(Also, "This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline.")

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/

Keyboard shipped! Maybe I'll be learning to type again on the weekend!