We are a forgetting machine! I read books, articles, research reports and tons of other stuff. Sometimes I go deep into a topic to learn how something works. So many times I get a "wow" moment, like this is something worth remembering and applying. But it is all forgotten after few days. "Inspiration is perishable".

I love Anki because it helps me remember of that stuff. When I find something really insightful, I try to create a one line note of it in Anki. This includes notes for frequently used commands, common stats or mental models on how to think …

Know the secret of writing well? Read out aloud.

Mac has a feature to read out any selected text. We can enable it by:
Going to system preferences >> Accessibility >> Speech >> Speak selected text with shortcut

I use the default shortcut: Option + Esc.
Same panel also provides the option to select voice and read speed.

Now select any text and press the shortcut to read it out.

Sometimes we have duplicate rows in database due to some bad design or schema change. Lets see how we can fix them.

Algorithm

• The solution is to "group by" rows based on the required columns.
• Add a column for counts
• Filter rows where count is more than 1

Lets say we have a model Announcement with company_id (FK), title, broadcast_date and other fields. We want to delete duplicate announcements for the company on same date.

from django.db.models import Min, Max, Count from documents.models import Announcement # Groupby by putting group identifiers …

“When I was very young, my father practiced law. One of his best friends, Grant McFayden was a client. He was a perfectly marvelous man of enormous charm and integrity - just a wonderful, wonderful man.

In contrast, my father had another client who was a blowhard, overreaching, unfair, pompous, difficult man. And I must have been fourteen years old and thereabouts when I asked, “Dad, why do you do so much work for Mr. X - this overreaching blowhard - instead of working more for wonderful men like Grant McFayden?”

My father said, “Grant McFayden …

I broke my phone and missed carrying a few items on my last trek. This is a short checklist for future references.

• Torch
• Pens
• Hand sanitizer
• Basic medicines
• Charge Kindle one night before
• Sleeping bag (also works as a pillow)
• Multi-tool (knife + cutter)
• Playing Cards + Werewolf cards
• Lesser clothes
• Extra socks
• More lowers and less jeans
• Extra phone and an extra pair of spectacles

Bonus: Want some ideas for places to travel? Check this.