It is a wonderful insight into their lives. We get a sneak preview of the things they are working on and how they are thinking.
I too hope to publish updates that often. Kind of an open life journal. Not because I have too many interesting things to share. But because I want to get back to writing.
I love blogging. But it is hard to think of a new topic each time. It also takes a lot of time to revise and publish a post. Posting a weekly summary of unrefined thoughts might be easier. Let's see!
I loved the AlpineJS approach to reactivity. It is taken from VueJS. They basically created a way to "watch" variables. And automatically update the UI if the value changes. Noice!
- I played with AlpineJS by creating a new toy project - Strangers.chat. It is a "talk to strangers" thing, but without any servers. It uses WebRTC to connect directly with the peer. A P2P connection without any eavesdropping. All in your browser.
Much of it is powered using PeerJS. It is hosted on Github since it doesn't need any backend. It is still a work in progress with the basic proof-of-concept ready. It provided me with a way to get my hands dirty in AlpineJS.
Reading and learning
I have been struggling with my emails recently. I just haven't been able to look at the inbox. Though Hey does a wonderful job at organizing the emails. And our support team does a wonderful job in answering all the user queries. I personally get stuck on a few things sometimes.
I procrastinate everything when I am deep into a code. I don't reply to my team emails, I forget to check the logs, I skip meetings and I don't pick up the calls. Yeah! That's a big problem.
The bucket of pending things overflows and I just let it overflow till it calms down itself. This really is harmful sometimes and I wish to find a system around this.
I have picked up "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. I read some good reviews about it. That it does provide a system to get things done.
Inspired by Nozbe's post, I also plan to dedicate particular days to particular things.
Monday to Thursday Do regular day-to-day work: Code reviews and back-office.
Friday Do clean-ups. Clean up the inbox. Meet new people (meetings). Clean up the backlog.
Saturday Do a weekly review (from GTD book). Share the updates in a blog post.
Let's hope this goes well and I continue to post updates :).
