#ossasepia | 2019-12-03

03:55

diana_coman: EOD report : I fixed the crontab issue and setup apache/php on my toliet box + wrote a script that takes the the backup data and recreates my blog locally. I can confirm now with much more confidence that my blog is being backed up safely. I spent the rest of the day editing/finishing my Conrad post. That took much longer than the predicted 3hr - I spent closer to 6.5 hours. I will use extra time during my saltmine day

03:55

whaack

s to tackle the 2h journaling block I had scheduled for today.

~ 4 hours 21 minutes ~

08:16

03:55	whaack	diana_coman: EOD report : I fixed the crontab issue and setup apache/php on my toliet box + wrote a script that takes the the backup data and recreates my blog locally. I can confirm now with much more confidence that my blog is being backed up safely. I spent the rest of the day editing/finishing my Conrad post. That took much longer than the predicted 3hr - I spent closer to 6.5 hours. I will use extra time during my saltmine day
03:55	whaack	s to tackle the 2h journaling block I had scheduled for today.
		~ 4 hours 21 minutes ~
08:16	diana_coman	whaack: the backup sounds finally fine; re writing heh, keep that in mind at next "estimate" of timing, you know?
		~ 1 hours 18 minutes ~
09:35	diana_coman	whaack: do apply that mp-wp fix to keep trackbacks out of comments
09:37	diana_coman	whaack dorion_road you might want to increase the number of comments and posts shown in the sidebar, as 5 is rather little when there's quite the discussion going on; it's an easy change too.
		~ 4 hours 52 minutes ~
14:29	whaack	diana_coman: mhm I thought 3h was generous because I thought my article was already completed - but on reread I saw it needed major restructuring. I will apply the mp-wp fix within the next two days, for now I increased the number of comments/posts (btw dorion_road that's just a setting on the dashboard under appearances->widgets)
14:32	whaack	diana_coman: I'm going to go surf for a bit, not an escape I swear, the waves look great and I hardly left the house once yesterday / could use some exercise.
14:33	diana_coman	whaack: enjoy!
		~ 4 hours 44 minutes ~
19:18	diana_coman	jfw: is this keccak background the result of 1.5 hours + 0.5hrs planning?
19:22	jfw	diana_coman: closer to 4 hours :(
19:25	jfw	in part I ended up doing some digging despite having initially wanted to keep scope to what I could do right then without it
19:25	jfw	...so I guess I can't really be said to have decided on scope after all
19:27	diana_coman	jfw: aha; it even read a bit like "he's not FULLY decided on which way to go and which way to not go"; hence my question; hmm.
19:27	diana_coman	what was that digging for/in/about?
19:28	jfw	footnotes i-iv mainly
19:30	diana_coman	ah, do you mean it was time consuming finding the exact references there? (ie you knew what you wanted /that they existed but just had to spend time to find them?)
19:31	jfw	yes, though I didn't know exactly what I was looking for
19:31	jfw	had vague recollections.
19:34	diana_coman	were the recollections enough to write the text though? ie could have written it first and then time the reference-digging separately; and yes, it's an ever growing pain to find refs around here though I expect in your cases here you had it even harder as it wasn't all that fresh in memory, hm.
19:36	jfw	I didn't remember the year or the context so couldn't have written that second sentence at least
19:37	jfw	I could have left it a 'todo' and then timed the rest separately
19:38	jfw	Which would have given me the choice of whether to then do it on this pass
19:41	diana_coman	jfw: yes; other than that, the added trouble you are having there is the silence-gap that you are effectively trying to bridge while writing but inevitably retro-actively and so you get both the split and the resulting tension between "I'm talking of my work that I did alone" vs "but I was reading the logs and informed by it"
19:43	jfw	I felt such tension indeed.
19:44	jfw	That and the lack of freshness of refs would be among the debts of not writing mentioned in yesterday's
19:45	diana_coman	eh, the debt there has also the lack of your own writings to rely on otherwise; but more to the point, why not simply write it as what it was aka "I worked on this on my own (but reading the logs/this/that)"?
19:47	diana_coman	you don't have to write it as if it was already part of the forum or anything; you are bringing it forwards now and people want to see it, yes, but the history is what it is, what.
19:47	jfw	gah sorry, phone call distraction.
19:47	diana_coman	k.
19:58	jfw	back.
19:59	jfw	Re debt also meaning lack of ready context - yep.
20:00	jfw	hm, I wanted to include the context from the forum since it was to some degree informing my actions, though I was not a part of it
20:00	diana_coman	jfw: yes, include it but precisely as what it was - a reference only.
20:01	diana_coman	ie focus on your actions ie tell it from your perspective since that's how it was developed anyway + simply add footnotes/references when/where you used the logs/blogs/whatevers since that's how they played in anyway, isn't it?
20:02	jfw	as in stating that more explicitly? yeah I guess that's what you said.
20:03	diana_coman	as in keeping to the one perspective that matches anyway; for one thing it helps by reducing (or getting rid of) that tension anyway.