October 10, 2023 [!example] Topics: Aviation, Mountaineering Weekend Flight Recently I flew from KRNT (Renton, WA) to KHQM (Hoaquim, WA) and back. Flying IFR is a challenging but rewarding experience. The views in the Pacific Northwest when a cloud layer cuddles the mountains makes for a very scenic way to...

[!example] Topics: Blog Chain: Hierarchy of Fulfillment October 01, 2023 Hierarchy of Fulfillment The Hierarchy of Fulfillment (HoF) is my experimental framework that loosely applies David Allen's 5 Horizon's of GTD to each tier in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and indirectly inspired by Steven Covey's 7 Habits of...

September 12, 2023 I'm taking a week off from writing about coding, as I've had minimal progress this past week, though no lack of insights and learnings. re: Recommended Books On 2023-03-27, I was asked by the young man performing maintenance at my home if I had any book recommendations. I was caught off guard...

September 05, 2023 re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Though I only had one solid day of coding this past week, I made significant progress due to an uninterrupted 5 hour block in my calendar. I was able to enter a state of flow and really work through resolving some...

logjam and Boston creek Park Ranger - North Cascades National Park (Flicker) August 28, 2023 re: GTD, Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. The sentiment this past week has been : logjammed. I ran in to many roadblocks in my progress in learning Rust and other personal...

August 21, 2023 re: Aviation - Flight to Friday Harbor, WA A friend, a toddler, and his mom joined me in an adventure to fly to Friday Harbor, WA (KFHR) last week. Friday Harbor is located on the San Juan Islands and just a few miles from the international border with Canada. The airstrip is a wonderful un-towered...

August 14, 2023 re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Ownership in Rust - Chapter 4 of the Rust Library Book I'm moved beyond much of the review of the first few chapters, and Chapter 4 of the Rust Library Book actually gets in to some of the idiosyncrasies of the language....

August 08, 2023 re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. I've completed Chapter 3 of The Rust Programming Language book, and found many other great resources to continue to work on the language. Chapter 3 was about control flow - if/then, loops, while, etc. While the concepts...

August 01, 2023 | 👩‍💻 'Blaugust' & Yak Shaving in Rust re: "Blaugust" For the month of August, I'm "participating" in a month of "blogging" per Belghast blogging on aggronaut.com: Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place in August each year that focused on blogging and other serialized content. The goal is to...

July 31, 2023 | 👩‍💻 Learning to Code in Rust: 'hello world' re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Today I worked through the first set of exercises in The Rust Programming Language "tutorial" book for Rust. This exercise book was recommended to me by a friend who was curious...

July 28, 2023 | 👩‍💻 Write An App: Git First Things First re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Today I had just a little time to check off a small task to set up version control. I started by checking if I had git already installed. I used git --version to see that I'm on v...

July 27, 2023 | 👩‍💻 WSL & VSCode Setup, 🐐 Bouldering with Goats re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Late last night I: Installed the WSL extension and Remote Development extension for VScode via https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/wsl-vscode Set up a...