The Three Types of Task Control After pondering about the topic for a long time, I took some inspiration from a business-related course I previously attended. Push and pull systems in particular stood out to me because I felt like push and pull systems could be abstraction terms used to describe certain task management systems. (REWRITE IN PROGRESS) In modern society, we’re largely deadline-driven, as it is the easiest method for something to get done....

Finding Suitable Metrics To reiterate, the goal of this benchmarking is to maximize the amount of things done. I think there are two main factors that affect this metric: How much time is actually spent doing tasks How effectively time is spent doing tasks Both factors are not very straightforward to improve, as they tend to get better with practice. However, some measures for anti-procrastination and anti-distraction may help to speed up the progress for the first factor....

Origin TL;DR: Project TTMS is only part of the solution to self-organization. While I was pondering about Project TTMS, I realized that the whole point of an organizational system is to make the process of planning and organizing tasks as seamless as possible, such that I can maximize the amount of effective time (time spent actually doing the tasks). No matter how seamless my self-organizational system is, it doesn’t matter if I cannot actually execute my tasks efficiently....

Introduction For most people getting started with 3D printing, it usually seems like a black box; you give it a 3D model of something you want, and it spits out a real, tangible object. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing inherently wrong with viewing 3D printing this way. However, that’s like buying a racing bike just to use it in 1st gear all the time; gaining a little more understanding about how the machine (or bicycle, if we are to continue the analogy) works goes a long way for getting what you want done faster and better....

From my post about my digital setup, I wanted to quickly write a small post about getting nushell and starship working in an Alpine Linux Toolbx container. So, the problem is that Alpine Linux uses the musl C library instead of glibc. This causes a compatibility problem when running Rust programs that were compiled on the main system within the Alpine Linux container. In addition, the PATH environment variable is inherited from the host system due to how Toolbx works....

I really enjoy semi-obscure technologies, and I try implementing many of them into my own computer. So, I thought it would be a little fun to make a little write-up about what components my setup consists of and why they exist. Setup v1 (as of 2023-07-11) (I’ll add a diagram here later, but for now, here’s a bullet-point representation) Main desktop Running Fedora Kinoite 38 Runs 3 containers (via Toolbx) Dev container Running Fedora 38 (container version) Contains all the additional packages I need for software development Play container Running Fedora 38 (container version) Primarily for running games (on Steam) Utils container Running Alpine Linux Edge (container version) Home server (repurposed old laptop) Running Rocky Linux 9 Runs 3 containers (Podman + podman-compose) Nextcloud Penpot Forgejo All 3 containers are connected to a subdomain of mine via Cloudflare Tunnels As for some personal preferences:...

If you haven’t already checked out the about site page, please read it first for some context. Attempt 1: Wordpress Link to Wordpress. When one usually looks to create a website as a complete newbie to the web development space, the first results usually tend to be either website services like Squarespace or Wix, or Wordpress (the open source web content management system, not the hosting service). Squarespace and Wix felt a little bit restrictive in terms of what type of content I could create with it, which made me attempt to work with Wordpress....