Stampy

📅 September 8 2024 (Sun) 9:17PM 🏷 [dev golang] 🕑 2 min read

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been needing to do something very simple, in theory, type out a timestamp. Yeah, I could just use one of the 1000’s of bash scripts, or write it out in Python in my sleep, but I wanted to use this as a excuse to get back into writing GoLang. I first fell in love with it over a Thanksgiving break. Took me a little over a week (40 hours) to get the hang of it well enough to write a nice little custom SNMP parser for the monitoring app PRTG.

ADHD, Productivity and Time Management

📅 April 16 2024 (Tue) 12:02AM 🏷 [productivity automation beginners adhd] 🕑 7 min read

(Image credit to bphope.com) Intro So it’s no secret among my friends and family that I’m a bit of a scatterbrain. I also love to offload anything difficult into different applications, either on my phone or on my desktop/laptop. While I’ve covered some great tooling before, this time, I’d like to review a few neat things I’ve found that more normal users can benefit from. I make no effort to hide the fact that I have a really bad case of ADHD.

Your tools don’t matter

📅 September 25 2023 (Mon) 8:58PM 🏷 [developer-tools learning newbie tools] 🕑 14 min read

Cover photo - contextualelectronics.com tl;dr What DOES work The 3 F’s When I think of tooling, I think of my dad’s electronics shop, a big sprawling room, filled with random parts, power supplies and oscilloscopes. I used to spend my Saturdays with him as a kid. He would “put me to work” and I would help with small tasks, unsolder some old burnt-out capacitors, or log data on faulty power supplies.

Poetry (Packaging) in motion

📅 March 18 2023 (Sat) 11:08PM 🏷 [python python-projects] 🕑 13 min read

Intro 👋 As you might have guessed, I’ve decided to write this entry on Poetry (as in the package manager). I’ll start right off by saying that I’m no expert by far. While I’ve been programming for several years in Python, much of my original experience was just with good old Pip alone. This was partly to do with the fact that back in the early 2010’s there weren’t as many options as there are now.