for the most part, my sinus infection is over–still dealing with residual stuffiness and congestion, but it feels like allergies now which i can handle. currently reading Extreme Cities by Ashley Dawson.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Painfully learning for my ham radio license. Exam is on the 23rd and I’m learning impaired by job, motivation and other responsibilities…

    • anji@lemmy.anji.nl
      5·
      2 years ago

      Just keep doing practice exams over and over. Before long you’ll have memorized everything. Everything is a dipole!

  • alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    very well, if only because today’s a public holiday. also, i’ve gotten some really nice reading experiences recently after a very long dry spell and that’s pretty great too!

  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m stuck on a project for university, the last one before I can start writing my Master’s thesis, where I can’t make any progress - when I’m out walking, I have the solution (code) clearly in mind, but as soon as I get a keyboard in front of me, my mind fades and I can’t come up with anything.

    Also, after visiting a book fair last week, I finally got back to reading, currently the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy and the comics from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series.

    I am delighted with my first harvest of the year, radishes to be precise. Now I am thinking about what to plant next in the newly available space.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      …I have the solution (code) clearly in mind, but as soon as I get a keyboard in front of me, my mind fades and I can’t come up with anything.

      I used to earn a living writing code and dealt with something similar to this…it felt like writer’s block to me…in hindsight I’m not sure what it was.

      One day I was having a satisfying bowel movement and the solution to a coding problem just popped into my head out of nowhere. To explain, I was sitting on the toilet taking a shit and wasn’t thinking about coding at all.

      So, I decided that whenever I got stuck with code I would just walk away from the computer and go about my day. Many times I would do this, and while doing something mundane, the solution would just pop into my head out of nowhere.

      Good luck on your Master’s thesis.

      • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        One day I was having a satisfying bowel movement and the solution to a coding problem just popped into my head out of nowhere. […]

        That’s super relatable 😂

        So, I decided that whenever I got stuck with code I would just walk away from the computer and go about my day. Many times I would do this, and while doing something mundane, the solution would just pop into my head out of nowhere.

        So do I. But unfortunately the solution is gone once I start writing again. However, after letting out my frustration yesterday, it finally clicked :D

        Good luck on your Master’s thesis.

        Thank you very much :-)

    • anji@lemmy.anji.nl
      4·
      2 years ago

      When I can’t get started coding, I usually break through it by adding starting with unimportant uncomplicated things. The overall structure of what needs to happen. A bunch of debug logging which spits out what’s going on. That kind of thing.

      Then slowly I start adding real code and pretty soon it’ll work.

      • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Thanks for the great advice. Actually, the general structure was already there, and only the (very nasty!) details were left. But after letting out my frustration yesterday, it finally clicked :D

  • Greenpepper@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m coping with my broken humerus after a fall off my bicycle 12 days ago. On the plus side I have more time now to continue my philosophy study.