Samathy @s@social.samathy.space

My day job is very stressful atm. Theres a lot of pressure to have a release candidate by the end of the month and its taking a toll on me at the moment.

Constant 'Hows this work coming along' questions is awful. Its making me feel very much like I'm not a good developer, that I'm going too slow and cant problem solve fast enough 😬

Of course, there is also hackspace responsibilities I am required to meet this week too 🙃

Today I made the mistake of checking how much the PineTime dev kit costs 😬

Its cheap enough that I expended significant effort to not buy one before I look into the hardware for flashing and debugging it.

Also I want some RISC-V stuff soon too also I have embedded electronics things to make for EMF and don't have time for more embedded projects!

We had a meeting at Nottinghack on Friday to plan EMF stuff and it sounds like we're gonna have some really cool things going on as an org.

But, what I'm most excited about is how our *little* community of people is coming together to do achieve something. People with loads of different interests and skills coming together over making weird shit and teaching other people how to make weird shit. ❤️❤️❤️

GitHub, but federated.

Folks host their own instance, and you can follow, "star" and contribute to other people's repos and orgs using your account, from your instance.
Oh, and you get notifications from remote repos, visible on your instance.

Yeah?
This must exist already, right?
Decentralised development, but better than Email?

Honestly the best part of having a storage server is that all my digital stuff is no longer spread out across many harddrives, both in and out of computers.

If I need a document. It will likely be in the Documents folder on my server.

Why did past Samathy never store her tax-return documents in a consistent place?

All my invoices, previous documents and receipts are all over the place on several different computers.

Now I have a storage server, I've moved everything I can find on to there so that next year isnt so terrible.

I would be fine getting the bus! But there is no to-the-front-gate bus.

And obviously, carrying bags of harddrives, a microwave, an electric shower and walking for 15 mins would be pretty bad.

My pile of things we need to take to Nottingham's recycling center is steadily growing.

I don't drive, so getting to the recycling center is a massive pain, especially with bags if e-waste, topsoil and other stuff.

I wish there was a easier way to responsibly dispose of e-waste without needing a car....

Also - Nothing works on mainline kernels, and the kernels that do work are super old.

https://mastodon.technology/@brion/103495587657662243

FWIW - what I want to do now is not really for anxiety - I just want to see a counsellor and work through some of the brain worms I have.

Luckily, I can afford to just pay for it. But I'd much rather my work just....paid me the cost of the health insurance plan.

I tried to claim on my work-provided health insurance today so I could go see a counsellor and talk through some things.

My insurance plan started in September 2019.

But because I said I was getting treatment for anxiety up until February 2018, they refused to cover any more mental health stuff for another 3 years ( as long as I don't claim in those 3 years ) 😠

What is the point of health insurance if they just worm out of helping you be healthy?

While I was off for the holiday season I actually did a big colourful thing with all the stuff I'd like to do this year, events I want to go too, and goals to achieve.

All with how I can actually take steps to achieve them.

Probably a good thing!

So far this year I'm doing much better at actually _doing_ the things I want to do.

Like, organising social things with friends for as soon as possible rather than putting it off (for no reason) for months at a time.

Or just getting on with doing things that need doing, rather than todo listing them.

I've also been being more productive in the evenings, although tonight is not a good example.

Parrot Posting 🐦

Yesterday I was playing with some 8x8 LED matrices and trying to get them to work.

I'd assumed they were Max7219 controlled, since they were SPI.

But they're not.

They have an ATTINY48 controlling each LED matrix. 🤯

Probs shouldn't have assumed 🤷‍♀️