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Dispatch #5 (July 2023)	2023-07-02T16:55:57-04:00	false	dispatch	title url date file My thoughts on Helix after 6 months - Tim Hårek https://timharek.no/blog/my-thoughts-on-helix-after-6-months/ 2023-07-02T12:53:51Z timharek-no-ah7ilz.txt title url date file What App is That? https://maggieappleton.com/apps 2023-07-02T12:53:51Z maggieappleton-com-7am49k.txt title url date file Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-and-software-quality/ 2023-07-03T00:54:57Z softwarecrisis-dev-7c7z9g.txt title url date file The small web is beautiful https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/ 2023-07-03T00:52:08Z benhoyt-com-vfdv1s.txt title url date file Why You Own an iPad and Still Can’t Draw https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw 2023-07-03T01:05:26Z maggieappleton-com-fube9k.txt

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, 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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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.

After getting the trailer hitch installed last month, we picked up a bike rack and a seat for Nev 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.

I'm still enjoying using Obsidian to collect link and make notes, though mostly in the "capture" phase¹ , 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.

I also read some good articles about Helix and Procreate, and I'm hoping to give those some attention this month.

This month:

• Adventure: dust off the road bike, fill the tires, grease the chain, throw it on the rack, and get out for a long ride
• Project: publish an article on testing on my company's website
• Skill: learn Helix 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)

Reading:

• Fiction: The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
• Non-fiction:
  • Rapt, Winifred Gallagher
  • Visual Thinking, Williemien Brand
  • The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life, Epictetus

Links:

• Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea -- I refer people to this article a lot in discussions around LLMs and software development
• The small web is beautiful
• Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

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1. Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain outlines a four-step process: Capture, Organize, Distill, Express. ↩︎