Stage 1, day 7:
Fantastic day.... I am $300 shy from breaking the damn $1000 in sales per day... Last time it did happen was almost 1 year ago when I parted away with my partner.
I just sent out a promo email so, it is quite possible to make it happen today.
I did noticed it few days ago but omitted talking about that observation. I feel like my analytical and problem solving skills are on steroid. I'm enjoying this state a lot as my big fun in life is to solve tough technical problems. Finding an elegant solution provides me a lot of satisfaction.
And it isn't just in my business ventures. I did plug some VOIP system in my network. I was short of Ethernet input behind my router. I figured that since my VOIP device had 2 Ethernet sockets (Internet and Home), I could unplug a network cable behind the router. Plug it in the VOIP device and plug the new device in the router.
it sounds simple, but when I discovered that printing was broken, I had no idea what the problem was and how I would fix it. I was under time constraint as I had only half hour to print a packing slip and go to the postal office to mail a package before it closes. Mission accomplished. It felt almost like I was some sort of James Bond defusing a bomb or MacGiver or some other cheesy hero doing something awesome with Mission Impossible theme music in background!
Any normally designed network device should have accepted this usage and it took some time to realize it since I randomly print stuff... but the damn device wasn't letting all traffic pass through it. Therefore, it was making the printer invisible to the rest of the network...
Talking of this VOIP device. My telco bill was becoming insanely high. In October it did spike up to almost $400... I was pissed when I did discover that they were charging me insane long distance fees done on their VOIP service. In 2019... no honest company should charge for long distances... I called them... and they didn't correct the situation in a satisfactory manner. I made a short stop at Best Buy. Bought a Ooma device (VOIP), and few Android Kodi devices to plug on TVs... That way, I'm going save a minimum of $75/month.... That is a lot of money at the end of the year....
Yesterday, I did fixed a lot of BS cause by the choosen UI framework in my code only to stumble into a new BS issue coming from the framework. Everytime that I take time to workaround the problem. I tell to myself, now it is going to be fine and I'll be good to finally address the real purpose of all this dev... Only to stumble into new BS problem. I know that the way that I'm talking about the framework, it may sound like BS... but it is not... It is an open source framework... The way that I address the issues I have is by looking up in the code to understand how it works. Code quality is high and it is a fun framework to use but it tries to be so much things, address so many possible use-case that sometimes the result from the very complex codebase is hard to explain and no one knows why it is like that.
Here is a short description of what I have stumbled in. There is a Layout manager that is supposed to maximize the available space usage to display widgets. I have 3 widgets that can be displayed or hidden from a menu. My expectation is very simple. Just share evenly the available space among my displayed widgets. I mess around by hiding/showing widgets and I fail to get them have the same height when I return to the identical widget combination. Their LayoutEngine accounts for SizePolicies, spaces, margins and so on and so on.... I'm just going write my own stupid Layout class that take the available space and divide by the number of widgets to display. It will give consistent and predictable results and I'll be done with that crap.
This is going to be done by the end of the evening... As an extra bonus, it will even be faster than the one from the framework... just from the fact of being much simpler
Wow, I didn't expect this entry to be that long... 2 more things.
1. I went to the gym for the first time since I started BASE. It is insane how fast the projected aura and somehow state of mind can change fast. In the last 6 months. I was focused on the women and how they were reacting to me. They didn't pay much attention to me so did I. I am so much somewhere else right now...
2. I find myself still extremely charming but in a different way. I feel like people find me very charismatic except that my charisma isn't sexually charged as I think it was just 2 weeks ago...
Fantastic day.... I am $300 shy from breaking the damn $1000 in sales per day... Last time it did happen was almost 1 year ago when I parted away with my partner.
I just sent out a promo email so, it is quite possible to make it happen today.
I did noticed it few days ago but omitted talking about that observation. I feel like my analytical and problem solving skills are on steroid. I'm enjoying this state a lot as my big fun in life is to solve tough technical problems. Finding an elegant solution provides me a lot of satisfaction.
And it isn't just in my business ventures. I did plug some VOIP system in my network. I was short of Ethernet input behind my router. I figured that since my VOIP device had 2 Ethernet sockets (Internet and Home), I could unplug a network cable behind the router. Plug it in the VOIP device and plug the new device in the router.
it sounds simple, but when I discovered that printing was broken, I had no idea what the problem was and how I would fix it. I was under time constraint as I had only half hour to print a packing slip and go to the postal office to mail a package before it closes. Mission accomplished. It felt almost like I was some sort of James Bond defusing a bomb or MacGiver or some other cheesy hero doing something awesome with Mission Impossible theme music in background!
Any normally designed network device should have accepted this usage and it took some time to realize it since I randomly print stuff... but the damn device wasn't letting all traffic pass through it. Therefore, it was making the printer invisible to the rest of the network...
Talking of this VOIP device. My telco bill was becoming insanely high. In October it did spike up to almost $400... I was pissed when I did discover that they were charging me insane long distance fees done on their VOIP service. In 2019... no honest company should charge for long distances... I called them... and they didn't correct the situation in a satisfactory manner. I made a short stop at Best Buy. Bought a Ooma device (VOIP), and few Android Kodi devices to plug on TVs... That way, I'm going save a minimum of $75/month.... That is a lot of money at the end of the year....
Yesterday, I did fixed a lot of BS cause by the choosen UI framework in my code only to stumble into a new BS issue coming from the framework. Everytime that I take time to workaround the problem. I tell to myself, now it is going to be fine and I'll be good to finally address the real purpose of all this dev... Only to stumble into new BS problem. I know that the way that I'm talking about the framework, it may sound like BS... but it is not... It is an open source framework... The way that I address the issues I have is by looking up in the code to understand how it works. Code quality is high and it is a fun framework to use but it tries to be so much things, address so many possible use-case that sometimes the result from the very complex codebase is hard to explain and no one knows why it is like that.
Here is a short description of what I have stumbled in. There is a Layout manager that is supposed to maximize the available space usage to display widgets. I have 3 widgets that can be displayed or hidden from a menu. My expectation is very simple. Just share evenly the available space among my displayed widgets. I mess around by hiding/showing widgets and I fail to get them have the same height when I return to the identical widget combination. Their LayoutEngine accounts for SizePolicies, spaces, margins and so on and so on.... I'm just going write my own stupid Layout class that take the available space and divide by the number of widgets to display. It will give consistent and predictable results and I'll be done with that crap.
This is going to be done by the end of the evening... As an extra bonus, it will even be faster than the one from the framework... just from the fact of being much simpler
Wow, I didn't expect this entry to be that long... 2 more things.
1. I went to the gym for the first time since I started BASE. It is insane how fast the projected aura and somehow state of mind can change fast. In the last 6 months. I was focused on the women and how they were reacting to me. They didn't pay much attention to me so did I. I am so much somewhere else right now...
2. I find myself still extremely charming but in a different way. I feel like people find me very charismatic except that my charisma isn't sexually charged as I think it was just 2 weeks ago...
