Links (July 11-July 18)
I’m getting back to reading blogs again, and I've enjoyed how Laura Michet does weekly link roundups. Here are my links.
Here's the deal: I've never written more than Hello World in Rust, but I love to read Rust articles. 1) I like to understand the concepts from the language, because it gives me new ways to think about the languages I do write in, and 2) maybe one day I'll start writing Rust for real, and by then I'll have internalized so many of the blog posts that I'll never have to deal with the uncomfortable "fighting the borrow checker" stage.
Anyways, I like the way the place-based lifetimes look. That lines up with my imagination of how Rust works today, so I’m hopeful it would save me some headaches in a hypothetical future.
I love to archive things. I’m currently in the process of building a NAS, in part to store video files all along the scale of importance, but none of which I’m willing to give up. I have DVDs of middle school plays. Clips recorded for a vlog project I’ve been “just about to get back to” for the better part of a decade now. A live-streamed COVID-era concert. Where was I..?
Right. I've been enamored, through my life, with various systems for keeping track of what’s important to me - Todoist, Omnifocus, Obsidian. Joan's thoughts here are mostly ones I've had, admittedly much less well articulated. But there truly is no system that can do that thinking for you, that can know better than your own brain what is really, truly important right now.
The latest in my long line of figuring out how to store and sort my thoughts is Drafts, which acts like a big searchable inbox. The deal I strike with myself is that it doesn’t get dealt with until I need it. Until I want to know what I've seen fit to remind myself about keyboards, there are just 20 different drafts with half a thought. Once I do care to know, I can search every “keyboard” note and put them into one place, and go from there. The focus is much more on searchable output than tagged and tracked input.
And also, it’s not like that’s a hard and fast rule. I know it won’t be that way forever! But for now, I guess it’s working, because I haven’t abandoned it for something else yet.