Ringing it in
Last week was the New Year so I took a week off (even though these are hardly long blogs). I’m still in Vancouver, although I’m flying back to the U.K. – plague island as it otherwise seems to be known– on Thursday 14th, providing everything goes okay. The time here with Dani has been amazing, I feel so lucky to have been able to spend this time together, and hopefully the next time I’m here it will be to stay.
We rang in the new year with some cocktails, homemade blinis and caviar, and a lot of food. Since then I’ve been getting some runs in, bouncing around the city, eating donuts. Dani’s back at work, I’m spending the day revising for my exams and doing DSA problems. I need to slowly ramp up the programming problem practice over the next 8 months in prep for job applications at the end of the degree.
Reading List
- Complexity: A Guided Tour, Melanie Mitchell - Finished up
- Banking on status
- Phone addiction
- Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail
- On repl-driven programming
- The Nashville Bombing and Threats to Critical Infrastructure: We Saw This Coming
- A Rebuttal to Pedro Domingos’ Rebuttal to my Remarks Opposed to Signing the Open Letter on Academic “Free Speech”
- Money Stuff: Tesla Kept Busy in 2020
- What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
- No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
- What Silicon Valley “Gets” about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not