Done Since 2018-07-01

[mdlbear]

Hmm. Moderately productive week? Not so much on the job search: one phone screen, and one application submitted. They're interesting ones, however: the phone screen was for SUSE, a Linux distribution; the application was for a half-time junior engineer position at ISC (the Internet Software Consortium, makers of bind9, bind10, and isc-dhcp). I would really like to land that last one because of the half-time aspect, but either would be cool.

The ISC job description mentioned working with the IETF, which led by a comparatively short chain of links to this week's Songs for Saturday post. SUSE led to me installing the latest version of openSUSE (Leap 15; they have several) on one of my spare laptops. Interesting. It's RPM-based and favors KDE as a desktop; I'm not crazy about either one, and a lot of the defaults and other choices are,... odd. But, it's something else to put in my toolkit.

A fair amount of project time was also taken up by system administration -- my mirror drive apparently died in last week's power failure. Ugh. Fortunately I had a 700Gb laptop drive ready to go in a USB enclosure; not as big as the original mirror, but that wasn't anywhere near full. The mirror is 87% full, which isn't bad. A little project time also went into starting a React Native app based on the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 psych screeners; all of that was basically reading, setup, and tracking down the content.

Aside from S4S, I also got to sing with N last Sunday, and I had a good singing lesson. So there was music.

There was also posting -- S4S, a fishbowl signal boost, Thankful Thursday, and the latest Computer Curmudgeon post. I'm pretty happy with the positive response to that one; my inclination is to do scripting languages next.

Notes & links:

0701Su
  * up 5:45ish; W=201.4, S=7:31;
  : mirror does appear to be hosed -- the dock seems to work with other drives.  I can use
    the 700 for now.
  * 11:30ish expect N and L
  * 12:30 leave for Coupeville
  * 1:30 C MAC clinic (With L -- N wanted some alone time)
  -> we should get a transport chair for C
  * music with N "Lock-keeper", "Bigger on the Inside", "Bells of Norwich"  
  * spent some time revising daily_mirror to handle single-partition mirror drives
    put the 700G drive on nova.  Still needs to be relabeled and set up.  I don't think
    I'll put a bootable partition on it.  If it were bigger I might.
  @ IGNITION! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark (T in a comment)
  * set up mirroring on nova, using the 700G laptop drive.
    -> full transfer took 6 hours, so I didn't need the lock test.  Nice to have anyway.

0703Mo
  * Up 5am; W=201.6, S=5:32;
  * email from magdalena.zenderowska@suse.com - set up call
    * suggested 7am/4pm tomorrow.
  * dive into SUSE (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed)
  @ Start-Up | openSUSE Leap 15.0
  @ HCL:Raspberry Pi3 - openSUSE
  @ // GNU Health - Freedom and Equity in Healthcare //
  ~ 1:30 C MAC clinic (V)
  @ Working from home: 5 hidden downsides no one talks about [FlexJobs]
  @ Family Caregiver Support Program - Island Senior Resources
  @ Additional Resources to Inform and Inspire - Island Senior Resources
    50 Great Self Nurturing Ideas
    60 Ideas for Self-Care and Self-Nurturing - FC Wellness Company Ltd 
    25 Fun Ways for Seniors and Retirees to Make Extra Money - MoneyPantry
  * 4pm C Dr. Rochier
    <- physical therapist
    <- dietician
    <- gastroenterologist (familiar with Crohn's)
    <- nephrologist
  @ Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero - Bloomberg 
  % 7:20 sleepy; headache; restless(?)  *Something* has caught up with me; not sure what.
    8:30 still out of it; not even much reading.

0703Tu
  * Up 6:20; S=5:33, W=200.2;
  @ Giuseppe Torre / bodhilinuxmedia · GitLab [LJ]
    A Linux distro for digital artists
  @ The Obsessive Chef: LGBT sandwiches f() Gravlax.  I've also seen guacamole
    The LGBTQ - Menu - Bronze Cafe at The Center - Las Vegas Greens, Q-cumber
    Gay café owner launches a LGBT sandwich and proceeds will go to charity :( video)
    LGBT Sandwich blog
    " A parent's journey in learning how to support a gay teen. "
    LGBT Sandwich another blog
    Guacamole, Gravy, Gravlax, Greens, Gouda, Gruyere...
    ... and if you put it on Quinoa bread...
  @ Accessibility · Bootstrap "skip to main content" link
  @ Live Stream Your Pets with Linux and YouTube! | Linux Journal
  & playing a little with Midori, which is apparently the default browser for xfce.  Lean
  * prj: started PHQ9+11 app.
  @ Welcome! — Pygments syntax highlighter in python
    Not needed for MakeStuff -- Pandoc has it built in.
  @ Expo - code base and publishing system for js apps.
  @ What are the main differences between ReactJS and React-Native? 
  @ Renal Diet 
  @ Renal Diet | Cleveland Clinic
  @ "Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history | Robert Heaton 
  @ mdlbear | Curmudgeons
    found while trying to find out how many "computer curmudgeon" posts I've made (5)
  @ 12 Ways to Make Money Online
  @ Websites for Crowdfunding Projects - PenUltimate Productions
  @ Music Under the Trees 2018 Aug 4

0704We Independence Day
  * up 5:25; W=200.8, S=6:41;
  % noticed about my toothache:  1. It's worst in the morning.  Sometimes I take an
    ibuprofen, but I think it fades even if I don't.  2. It seems to be sensitive to
    temperature, especially hot coffee, as well as pressure from biting something.
  @ phqscreeners
    " All PHQ, GAD-7 screeners and translations are downloadable from this website and no
      permission is required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute them. "
  * 7am SUSE phone screen
    -> will get back to me within 2 weeks.
  @ CS50's Mobile App Development with React Native 13 week course, 6-9 hours/wk
    worth doing?  I can probably get through it in a month of full-time work.
  @ HelpGuide.org
  @ Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) Screeners. Free Download | phqscreeners
  * V will take C to Coupeville
  * PRJ: converted PHQ-9, 7 to javascript data.
  @ How I broke my Facebook addiction – Medium (Eli Goldberg)
  * C: Humira

0705Th
  * Up 4:35; W=200.8, S=5:35;
  @ 22 Job Search Motivation Strategies from FlexJobs Readers - FlexJobs
  @ Video: Crafting Resumes and Cover Letters for Flexible Jobs - FlexJobs good tips
  * PRJ: spent morning researching Choice of Games interactive fiction engine that N thinks we can write for.
    The game engine is pure js with static files (runs in Firefox).  The test tools are
    shipped as jar files and run on Mac with ant.  Presumably Linux also.
    there's an IDE in development
    Looks like it's mostly js with some java; should run anywhere; the IDE looks like it
    supports Linux so that's a good sign.  There's a web version that uses dropbox; N and
    I can use git if she has a Linux box to work on -- maybe a Pi?
  * posted  Thankful Thursday
  * 4:30 Music lesson
  * grocery shopping from C+V's list.
  % tired and hurty.  muscle know in the back of my right calf.  Gastrocs?
  @ Master of Tides - Lindsey Stirling - YouTube (archangelbeth)
    spectacular flash crowd show.  Pirates.  Pyrotechnics.  Found my s4s for this week :)
    Master of Tides - Behind The Scenes - Lindsey Stirling - YouTube

0706Fr
  * up 5:35; W=200.8; apparently didn't use CPAP last night.
  @ Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South
    Asia | Science Advances (full text)
    " The underlying reasons why southwest Asia stands out are discussed by Pal and
      Eltahir, who concluded that future TWmax around the Persian/Arabian Gulf region
      is likely to exceed the TW threshold for human survivability by the end of the
      century under a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG)
      concentrations. In summer 2015, TW in the Bandar Mahshahr, Iran Persian/Arabian
      Gulf, reached nearly 35°C, suggesting that the threshold may be breached sooner than
      projected. " TW is wet-bulb temperature.  35C is human skin temperature.
    Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans (ysabetwordsmith)
    Climate Change Will Push These Regions to Unsurvivable Humid Heat | Inverse
  @ Removing Support for Dead Hardware | Linux Journal
  @ EU Rejects Copyright Directive [...] | Linux Journal for now.
  @ DDD: Living with Depersonalization Derealization Disorder
  @ IP over Avian Carriers - Wikipedia see footnote [6] - another s4s perhaps.
  * applied for a half-time Junior Engineer position at ISC.org
  @ 6 Ways to Manage Emotional Labor in the Workplace - FlexJobs
  % 3:49 and I'm sleepy
  * music: Sang Millennium's Dawn.  Nailed it.  Benefits from being capoed up 2.
  * dinner:  stir-fried green beans with pork
  * Chaos's birthday -> sent an email.  C left voice mail
  @ Signal >> Download Signal - installed
    signal-desktop -- the chrome app has been deprecated.  Only available for mac,
    windows, and Debian-based Linux at the moment.
  % really sleepy again around 9ish.

0707Sa
  * Up 6:35; W=200.8, S=7:15;
  @ Launching External Processes in Python | Linux Journal
  & use technonerdmonster userpic on all (recent) curmudgeon posts
  @ New Training Options Address Demand for Blockchain Skills | Linux.com [LJ]
  @ alpha22jp/atomic-chrome
    GhostText/GhostText: Use your text
    editor to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly
    updated in the browser (and vice versa).  edit browser text areas in emacs
  * installing openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64.iso on blackbird
    recognized the WiFi card with no problems.  Didn't enable trusted boot; not clear
    whether I should -- or could -- have done something about that.  
  * 1:00 C MAC clinic -> arrived about 10min late.
  @ posted mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Astonishment
  : SUSE works; slow to boot.  Seems to have left my Ubuntu partition installed.
    Seems to have made the secure boot BIOS option go away :P
    I may have screwed that up; it's possible that there was a Windows partition there.
    -> no, that was ubuntu's /home.  Presumably, by creating a local one and taking it out
       of fstab, we can make it work.
    -> yast/zypper/whatever seems to be slower at installing packages than apt.
       ... and why does installing git pull in cvs and svn?
    -> took a long time to find out that you have to use hostnamectl to change hostname
  % oh, great.  Now I've damaged my right wrist.  Can't put weight on it.  Ugh.
    Brace helps a little but makes it hard to type; may have to try a different one.
    Back hurts from bending over looking for Rosie's insurance paperwork
  : Looks like in SUSE a .xinitrc file overrides whatever session you select in the DM.
    They use sddm, which I'd never heard of.  btrfs for /, xfs for /home.

Comments

[jcfiala]

Hm. I wouldn't say that those are 5 hidden downsides to working from home that no one talks about, because I often do, usually in relation to 'why I don't work from from home'. (Although I also have a wife who likes to watch TV in the same room my home computer is at. :) Working from home can be nice especially when needed to work around appointments, but personally I like having an office place where I work and a home place where I watch anime music videos and chat with people.

[cellio]

And SUSE cutting loose from Micro Focus sounds like a positive change, too! Good luck with the current job prospects. (Half-time would be nice.)

[mdlbear]

Thanks! SUSE turned me down; I haven't heard from the half-time one yet. I did take it as an excuse to try a new (to me) distribution on one of my spare netbooks, so it wasn't a total loss.