Rather busy again
Oct. 9th, 2023 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcMy new job has plenty of nice people but keeps me doubly busy at this point because I want to already be somewhat productive but I have plenty to learn, in this case including React, TypeScript, and Solidity. It's one of these things where I keep rereading things and being confused, and I know it just takes enough effort, I'll look back on this next year with a reasonable grasp of what I am stumbling my way through now. I know some stuff well but, of course, the most glaring for me is the stuff I don't. In particular, I really need to get a better grip of the cryptocurrency software ecosystem and the abstractions it assumes.
Also keeping me busy is the ongoing administrivia that is the fallout from my previous employer's liquidation, with my wanting to ensure that I do all that is necessary to assert my claim as a creditor. Fortunately, I am not alone in this.
Last weekend was not much of an opportunity to catch up in that it started with water leaking into our flat. We are not alone in this either: it affected a few flats on that side, and the factor is getting a property services company out to take a look. The consensus suspicion that that more work is needed on the roof. In our case, no terrible damage was done, and we do have buildings insurance, but we had to move furniture around, rush out to buy a powerful dehumidifier, etc.
Another impediment is various minor computer issues. For instance, since I reinstalled Linux, my personal computer doesn't seem to be able to unmute the microphone, or switch from X to a virtual console then back, and I still have to wrangle wee-slack. In the meantime, my old work laptop can't hold a steady wifi connection, an issue I worked around before a video conference today by means of my very long ethernet cable.
Also keeping me busy is the ongoing administrivia that is the fallout from my previous employer's liquidation, with my wanting to ensure that I do all that is necessary to assert my claim as a creditor. Fortunately, I am not alone in this.
Last weekend was not much of an opportunity to catch up in that it started with water leaking into our flat. We are not alone in this either: it affected a few flats on that side, and the factor is getting a property services company out to take a look. The consensus suspicion that that more work is needed on the roof. In our case, no terrible damage was done, and we do have buildings insurance, but we had to move furniture around, rush out to buy a powerful dehumidifier, etc.
Another impediment is various minor computer issues. For instance, since I reinstalled Linux, my personal computer doesn't seem to be able to unmute the microphone, or switch from X to a virtual console then back, and I still have to wrangle wee-slack. In the meantime, my old work laptop can't hold a steady wifi connection, an issue I worked around before a video conference today by means of my very long ethernet cable.
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Date: 2023-10-09 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-10 01:35 pm (UTC)It's a brand-new MacBook Pro 14" with two M2s, 64 gig of ram, and 4 TB of SSD. It's definitely not starving for resources, so something is funky. I've never had a Mac that was this unstable without something serious going on. Apple has a new OS out, I was going to wait another couple of weeks for shake-out patches but I'm thinking about getting that installed like now.
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Date: 2024-08-24 07:41 am (UTC)I hope that your MacBook's now better-behaved!