Today I am inspired to learn a new programming language to easily write high performance code. I’ve cracked open the Rust documentation for the first time in (can’t believe it’s been this long) 5 years!
First up I will try to learn the basics. Then maybe re-write my Node.js-based terminal multiplexer nomad. And then maybe write a Neural Network because I watched a video about neural networks recently and I reckon I could write it.
I’ve written a couple of blogs this weekend already and I’m
keen to write a few more about the apps I’ve been working
on. Namely, the design system cmp, the mental health app
boat-afloat and the vegetarian recipe app vegetate.
I also need to figure out how to easily insert images into my blogs. This sort of thing is trivial in a heavyweight blog writing tool but I don’t think I’ve automated this well with my setup.
I quite like the GitHub version, where you select the file from the editor and it inserts a link or an image inline.
Time for some duckduckgo-ing.
I hope this thing still works…
Hello. I haven’t blogged in a while because my laptop went a bit broken for a while but it’s fixed now (for the bargain price of £190) and I didn’t even have to have any parts replaced. Amazing. Thanks Aapex, Bristol.
Yeah so I live in Bristol now. It’s great, just small.
More blogs from now on, I promise.
Ooof. Long time no blog.
Question: can I make an app? Perhaps.
Can I make an app that will replace the whole “send a message to invite a group of people”
That doesn’t suck?
Didn’t … didn’t facebook do that?
Does the world need more apps?
Who cares?
Maybe I just want to make something.
Maybe just some nice UI or somthing.
Today was great. Met people. Heard music. I’m supposed to get up in 6 hours to go snowboarding, so help me. Maybe it will happen. I will buy my train ticket now. So sleepy.
OK. Wow. This is intense. Being in a new place but I’ve kind of been here before but I also haven’t. Being on my own kind of, meeting new people just about.
I had some food with my flatmate and his gf this evening which was really great. I think I was lacking in social interaction in the last few days. They’ve invited me to go snowboarding with them on Sunday 🥳 thank God for these mountains.
Got a date tomorrow. With a GUY.
Doing my gratitude journal again. woop.
My card is being declined. Might need some money.
The cat here is adorable.
I MADE IT. 3 DAYS OF MOVING MY THINGS AND FINALLY everything has been put into storage.
Yesterday I ran my last errands, packed up, let the cleaners in and took a train from London to Bedford.
ALSO, I booked my flights to Zurich today 🥳
The only things left for me to do is to enjoy Christmas + NYE, then pack my things again (God help me) and take a train to the airport.
Okay I also need to sort out a lot of other things… like having enough money when I’m there, mobile data, health insurance.
Time to update the Google doc!
My calendar reads “Monday, Pack boxes”, “Tuesday, Pack boxes”, “Wednesday, Pack boxes”, … all the way to this weekend.
I’m leaving London, it’s really happening. And although the plan is for me to return after three months of living abroad, I get the sense that I will want to stay away for longer.
I don’t know what I’m going to find but I know I need to go looking for it.
I’ve got this feeling that’s pulling at me hard away from where I am and for the first time I’m giving it the reigns and saying, “you know what? Yeah, let’s get out of here, who cares!”
And today it started to feel real because I started putting my possessions in boxes. The bulk of it will be my books, clothes, electronics and a couple of generic white IKEA furniture. The small hoard of a bachelor in the midst of the first of many life-crises to come.
But this isn’t a crisis - the World is in crisis, I can’t compare what ever – points to himself – this is to the death of millions of people, the Government telling us to stay away from each other, not to mention the other shit that was already going on before a virus crippled entire nations and the other stuff that has happened at the same time.
What I know is that I need to stop working so hard before I find myself 5 years into the same job having put a tonne of energy into, leaving nothing else for “me”.
If over a year of therapy has taught me anything, it’s that I need pay attention to the guy typing these words. He’s pretty cool, done a bunch of work on himself this year and he’s looking for the next thing. He doesn’t know what that thing is yet or where it is, but he’s looking for it and I’m proud of him for trying.
I know for a fact that this guy is exhausted from having worked his socks off for an entire pandemic! Like a lot of people, he’s feeling burned out and curious about what life could be like somewhere other than the one room he felt like he inhabited for the last 6 months.
Anyway, spoiler alert it’s me I’m typing this 😱
Oh, I didn’t brag about where I’m going yet, I’m going to Switzerland!!
When I told my hairdresser this fact, he straight-up told me that was the last place I needed to go and said it was boring. And yeah, maybe he’s right but I don’t care because I am proud that I made this decision and it is most certainly not the end of my journey, just like London wasn’t (although maybe one day it will be, I <3 this concrete/glass sprawl).
If I decide I love Zurich and want to stay a bit more, then I can probably do that! And if I want to leave and go somewhere else or quit my job (I’ll be working remotely), then I could also do that. Anything is possible!
I’m excited but also exhausted and ready to go and lay around in snowy Switzerland for a bit.
And if I can’t because of Covid then I’ll just move to Bristol and pretend it’s continental Europe.
Finally finally finally put my guitar noodles up :)
I still need to upload a bunch from 2020 and 2021 :excited_parrot:
Not feeling great today. Still self-isolating.
A new kettle arrived today but I’m not feeling it. blergh.
Need to remember to read and do yoga, they both help a lot.