Today’s deck is the Tarot of the Kingdoms.
The deck is fine enough, but it does that thing that sorta kinda peeves me where they add an extra arcana that’s the “this is good you will get what you want” kind.
Things have been relatively calm both in life and my brain lately, so today’s reading is handily reminding me to not get carried away by the “things are too calm” brainworms.
Today was work day. I ended up going to my office at like 2AM since… I didn’t have anything else to do, really. Having that insane flexibility with schedule is one perk of having my office in an apartment building.
I did some programming today, nothing too drastic but considering I’m still getting used to the new program it was decent enough. I even wrote a devlog about it!
Some might be wondering, with how step-by-step things are written, if the devlog itself is a distraction, but shockingly it’s not the case.
For those that don’t know, programming isn’t really that much about math, it’s mostly about overtly literal instructions being followed in a specific sequence. The sort of thing where a computer doesn’t have the leeway a human brain has in understanding context or cues, so it’s all too easy for a programmer to run into an issue because the amount of literalmindedness of a computer is that bad.
As such, there’s a trick where you pretend you’re explaining your code to a rubber duck, a duck that has zero knowledge about programming and code. You pretend you speak to something or someone and describe what the code is meant to do and what each line is supposed to do.
The result is that instead of thinking about individual commands and such, you refresh what the macro of it all is meant to be among other things.
I bring it up because I’ve noticed the last two times that I’ve wirtten a devlog, the programming experience has actually been SMOOTHER because I write down what I’m doing as I do it, so not only do I do the rubber duck experiment, but I also filter it all through the part of my brain that forces me to articulate thoughts more coherently to write them down.
After that was done I returned home just doing the usual stuff to keep myself awake and hopefully fix my sleep schedule.
It was THEN that I remembered a paper I needed to get.
It’s nothing urgent though, I’ll just get it later.