Dispatch 5 (and various misc. updates)
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title: "Dispatch #5 (July 2023)"
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date: 2023-07-02T16:55:57-04:00
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tags:
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- dispatch
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references:
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- title: "My thoughts on Helix after 6 months - Tim Hårek"
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url: https://timharek.no/blog/my-thoughts-on-helix-after-6-months/
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date: 2023-07-02T12:53:51Z
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file: timharek-no-ah7ilz.txt
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- title: "What App is That?"
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url: https://maggieappleton.com/apps
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date: 2023-07-02T12:53:51Z
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file: maggieappleton-com-7am49k.txt
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- title: "Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea"
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url: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-and-software-quality/
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date: 2023-07-03T00:54:57Z
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file: softwarecrisis-dev-7c7z9g.txt
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- title: "The small web is beautiful"
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url: https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/
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date: 2023-07-03T00:52:08Z
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file: benhoyt-com-vfdv1s.txt
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- title: "Why You Own an iPad and Still Can’t Draw"
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url: https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw
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date: 2023-07-03T01:05:26Z
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file: maggieappleton-com-fube9k.txt
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June was dominated by work and travel. Weekdays were filled up with a client project we were working hard to wrap, weekends by plans with friends and both of our families: [Running of the Bulls][1], canoe camping near Saxapahaw, our yearly trip to Beaufort with Claire's college friends, and then a cruise in the Caribbean with Claire's family followed immediately by a trip up to DC to see mine.
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[1]: https://bullcityrunning.com/our-races/running-of-the-bulls-8k/
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Most everything else fell by the wayside, but that's OK -- these were all awesome experiences, and I'm excited for a (relatively) quiet July.
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After getting the trailer hitch installed last month, we picked up a [bike rack][2] and a [seat for Nev][3] and brought the bikes with us to Beaufort. This was **awesome** -- Beaufort's an idyllic coastal town in just about every way but one: parking sucks. Being able to zip up and down the main street on our bikes (and parking them right at our destination) was such a joy, and Nev seems to enjoy the rack-mounted seat a lot more than the trailer we've been using.
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I'm still enjoying using Obsidian to collect link and make notes, though mostly in the "capture" phase[^1], collecting information and starting to put some structure around it. When something comes up and I think, man, I read something good about that at some point in the past, I'm using that as a cue to create a dedicated note, with the hope that the _next_ time it comes up, I'll have a useful thing to reference.
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I also read some good articles about [Helix][4] and [Procreate][5], and I'm hoping to give those some attention this month.
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[2]: https://1up-usa.com/product/2-super-duty-double
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[3]: https://www.thule.com/en-us/child-bike-seats/rear-mounted-child-bike-seats/thule-yepp-nexxt-maxi-_-12080211
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[4]: https://timharek.no/blog/my-thoughts-on-helix-after-6-months/
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[5]: https://maggieappleton.com/apps
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This month:
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* Adventure: dust off the road bike, fill the tires, grease the chain, throw it on the rack, and get out for a long ride
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* Project: publish an article on [testing][14] on my company's website
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* Skill: learn [Helix][13] movements, see if it'd be a good Vim replacement (I still love Vim, and I'm pretty good at it, but my config's dated and I'm wary of how much effort it'll take to modernize)
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[13]: https://helix-editor.com/
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[14]: /notes/good-tests
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Reading:
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* Fiction: [_The Golden Enclaves_][6], Naomi Novik
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* Non-fiction:
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* [_Rapt_][7], Winifred Gallagher
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* [_Visual Thinking_][8], Williemien Brand
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* [_The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life_][9], Epictetus
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[7]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/rapt-attention-and-the-focused-life-winifred-gallagher/7485226?ean=9780143116905
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[6]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-golden-enclaves-naomi-novik/17789027?ean=9780593158357
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[8]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/visual-thinking-empowering-people-and-organisations-through-visual-collaboration-williemien-brand/12408256?ean=9789063694531
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[9]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-manual-a-philosopher-s-guide-to-life-epictetus/15150488?ean=9781545461112
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Links:
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* [Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea][10] -- I refer people to this article a lot in discussions around <abbr title="large language models">LLMs</abbr> and software development
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* [The small web is beautiful][11]
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* [Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw][12]
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[10]: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-and-software-quality/
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[11]: https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/
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[12]: https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw
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[^1]: Tiago Forte's _Building a Second Brain_ outlines a four-step process: Capture, Organize, Distill, Express.
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