Clojurians Log v2
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There's another technique, may be somewhere between "interesting" and "ridiculous security through obscurity", but have you heard of "port knocking"?
> Hey guys, do you sometimes experience reluctance of "calling it a day" out of fear of losing your mental context while working on some stuff?
Just did today! I went on bit of a coding rampage, as I knew that if I wasn't done with it, the whole initiative would lose momentum.
my boss isn't running a charity is a great point. But maybe in covid times I'm more willing to borrow hours from my non-work life - I can 'return' them later without having missed any concert or football game ;p
> Just did today! I went on bit of a coding rampage, as I knew that if I wasn't done with it, the whole initiative would lose momentum. Exact same thing happened with me yesterday and I ended up working for around 11 hours, luckily I have the freedom to choose my own times. So if I work a bit more today, I can work less tomorrow 🙂
@jayzawrotny a while ago I switched to Roam Research (fun fact: powered by Clojure) for note taking in the vein of Zettelkasten, that definitely helps to "let go" of something for a while. I do get stuck sometimes when trying to explain something abstract/complicated in prose to my future self, clarity takes practice.
Also a fun fact, that I just discovered about Roam: If you export your database as EDN, the file starts with #datascript/DB!
… a self-described, schema-in-band dump of my whole Roam DB, with Datalog as my query language. All lock-in concerns I had just vanished.
there's a org-roam too, if you're using emacs
it doesn't interface with roam AFAICT, it's just an implementation of some of the core ideas in emacs
https://youtu.be/RCCigccBzIU?t=392 "For myself, the most important thing has been the daily discipline of neatly writing down your thoughts and what to do" -- E. Dijkstra
That sounds interesting. I wouldn’t call it security through obscurity, I’d call it “shared secret.” It’s no less secure than entering a pin, and pins only have 10 digits.
By the way, as a follow-up to my original question, our overworked sysadmin guy finally had time to sit down (virtually) and talk to me, and it turns out we’re not even using nginx for the proxy, it’s all on a load balancer on a completely different machine. It fooled me because I ssh in over vpn to an internal numeric IP, but my browser connects over a public .com address. It was nice to think back to the “good old days” of inetd tho. 🙂
> It was nice to think back to the “good old days” of inetd tho. :hugging_face:
In how to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens which covers more about zettelkastens. One particularly applicable quote: > The brain doesn’t distinguish between an actual finished task and one that is postponed by taking a note. By writing something down, we literally get it out of our heads. This was in response to the findings now known as the Zeigarnik effect: > Open tasks tend to occupy our short-term memory - until they are done