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Status update: July 1st 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
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StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a really good day with development today, making significant amounts of progress in various projects. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)2 days ago (Thursday, June 24th 2021) my laptops mouse started acting up again, which is extremely upsetting. I am determined to fix it this time, and when I get a fix ready, I will go and fix my other laptop as well. I have failed to report that there has been tons of minor graphicals bugs with this laptop, but not as bad as the last one, I am looking into the issue either being something with a video driver, the touchpad itself {sensitivity, settings} the mouse driver, or something else. I have not attempted to reinstall the mouse drivers yet, as I don't want to take that step yet (I have not yet tried For now, I will have to deal with it until I can resolve the problem. I have lived with this before, I can live with this again, easily. It will just be extremely inconvenient any annoying. The issue has not recurred for over 73 hours, as of Sunday, June 27th 2021 at 11:14 pm. This issue has not recurred in 5+ days, nor has any full system/desktop crash occurred since. I am hoping that if it returns, it keeps a pace of once or twice a month (can't be too picky) I do not know what is causing/solving these problems - June 29th 2021 at 10:19 pm Still no reoccurence - July 1st 2021 at 21:21:21 (9:21 pm + 21 seconds) See more below. Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Still the case as of July 1st 2021 SimZonns projectI did not work on the SimZonns project today - June 17th 2021 I made no progress on the specification for the ZSIM protocol. - June 17th 2021 I worked on the SimZonns project very briefly today, just dumping some binary data for reinstalling the googled SIM card security driver (so that I can begin degoogling it, not the zip file) - yesterday I had some plans for the project today, but I didn't get to implementing them - June 20th 2021 Same as of recently - June 28th 2021 Will I ever get to it this month? - June 29th 2021 ... Yes I will. The project received a major update today, receiving source code in new languages (C, Shell, Objective-C, and Assembly) 4 new project language files, support for 1x to 6G, support for SIM cloning, and beginning of support for Apple SIM cards. I have finished laying the foundation for my todo list, there is still much more to be done - June 30th 2021 NexxFetchI did not work on the NexxFetch project today - June 21st 2021 Same as of recently - July 1st 2021 Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. XORG crashed severely today - June 18th 2021 My computer did not crash today, although it got close. - June 19th 2021 XORG crashed severely again today with error13: 2 GNOME-shell crashes occurred today due to frequent file saving (force-of-habit No crashes have been noted today, but I may have found the program that is causing all the problems, which is No crashes occurred today, not even a minor one. The Ubuntu software store has reverted back to how it originally was, but I am still skeptical that Critical - Laptop cursor is having severe problems again, 1 temporary mouse crash today late in the evening, fixed with :terminal: -> gnome-tweaks - June 24th 2021 No mouse issues today, although when I figure this out, I just remembered this morning that I have an entire repository dedicated to this issue, and I will post my solutions there. I have also re-processed and now have all my strategies from last time ready for use again. - June 25th 2021 No technical issues today - June 26th 2021 The cursor issue has not returned yet, but Gedit crashed for the first time across my entire nearly first year of using Linux on the desktop. I was able to successfully recreate the small portion of unsaved data. - June 27th 2021 No technical issues today - June 28th 2021 No major technical issues today, Nautilus (GNOME files) crashed today, that was it. It wasn't severe, it didn't bring down my system, it didn't delete/corrupt files, it was all OK - June 29th 2021. No technical issues today - June 30th 2021 Very minor technical issues today, the calendar crashed upon startup as usual, I don't use it anyways. My computer temporarily froze a couple times in a period of 5 minutes, but didn't experience a display server, desktop environment, or operating system crash. - July 1st 2021 FocusI had great focus today, until the sun had been set for over an hour - Still true: July 1st 2021 Windows 11I have been looking into Windows 11. I am still forming an opinion. It will take a while for me to form a compact opinion on it, but I can now announce I will be supporting it. - June 17th 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 18th 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 19th 2021 I have found that since Windows 11 contains some open source components, it is not a fully proprietary operating system anymore. I am really happy about this, as this is progress. Now, all of the mainstream popular operating systems are not fully proprietary, and open source usage just continues to grow. I feel like these changes will help with the growth of open source as a whole. Kudos to you, Microsoft, although I am still hoping for much more Linux growth, which does not include Windows Subsystem for Linux. - June 20th 2021 Win11_support = bool(true) # I now support Windows 11No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 22nd 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 23rd 2021 Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 1st 2021 GitHub pagesI tested out GitHub pages today, as I had a website project I have been working on developing (I have so many website projects, I don't know how I didn't think of creating a personal one yet) I deployed it with GitHub pages, and felt like I opened a new realm of opportunity, like opening Pandoras Box. There is so much I can do with this. Although there are some limitations I currently don't like too much, the whole purpose of this plan that I have been developing was to have it hosted on a Linux home server and have files I can't store on GitHub (specifically files over 25 mebibytes in size) I completely overlooked this, and the fact that I have to rewrite the website in markdown (I think I will just transition to HTML) I am going to have to have an additional public file server alongside this. - June 21st 2021 One very small thing that I like but also annoys me a bit is that after every commit, it does 2 checks. I like that it is doing this, but at the same time, I don't want to have GitHub do so much extra work for my small commits, and also not create a copy of the pages every time I make a change. - June 21st 2021 I tested out GitHub pages today, as I had a website project I have been working on developing (I have so many website projects, I don't know how I didn't think of creating a personal one yet) I deployed it with GitHub pages, and felt like I opened a new realm of opportunity, like opening Pandoras Box. There is so much I can do with this. Although there are some limitations I currently don't like too much, the whole purpose of this plan that I have been developing was to have it hosted on a Linux home server and have files I can't store on GitHub (specifically files over 25 mebibytes in size) I completely overlooked this, and the fact that I have to rewrite the website in markdown (I think I will just transition to HTML) I am going to have to have an additional public file server alongside this. - June 21st 2021 One very small thing that I like but also annoys me a bit is that after every commit, it does 2 checks. I like that it is doing this, but at the same time, I don't want to have GitHub do so much extra work for my small commits, and also not create a copy of the pages every time I make a change. - June 21st 2021
Today, I began an all out revolution with the usage of GitHub pages, setting up base camps, testing, and learning the very very basics. I accomplished a lot today. I now know to have 2 branches at all times, make pull requests more common, etc. I can't go into much more detail, I am very tired. Today is day 3 of my GitHub pages revolution, I still have a lot to go, and I am still unsure what is causing the syntax to fail and clump the rest of the page into a hard to read paragraph, although I haven't experimented recently. I have had an increase in pull requests, as I am starting to focus on branches more. Today is day 4 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and tested out the Date of start: June 21st 2021 Today is day 5 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and tested out dropdowns and HTML with Markdown a bit further, but made little progress. Date of start: June 21st 2021 Today is day 6 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and did some more usual GitHub pages work. There is still a lot to go before I am caught up, I don't have an end goal in sight right now either. Date of start: June 21st 2021 Today is day 7 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and did some more usual GitHub pages work. There is still a lot to go before I am caught up, I don't have an end goal in sight right now either. Date of start: June 21st 2021 Today is day 8 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had a poor time Date of start: June 21st 2021 (1) June 29th 2021 (8) Today is day 9 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had an OK time with it today, creating 1 new page, and finishing one. The next page is going to take a little more time to prepare, I couldn't finish it tonight - June 30th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (1) June 29th 2021 (8) Today is day 10 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had an OK time with it today, creating 2 new pages, and finishing one. I have been having difficulty creating the repositories, as I can't just log in as the organization and do it, I have to wait for the list of owners to load (600) and there is either a 1/3 or 1/9 chance that it will actually let me see the list and not get stuck loading. Today, I had difficulty, as something broke in the back end, and the list was cut off partially into the deep part of the S section. It took me nearly 15 minutes to create the needed repository. There is still a snap to create, but I reached my 25 project limit for today, so I will have to save that for tomorrow - July 1st 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (1) June 29th 2021 (8) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. Today, I added 4 new ones, out of 8. I didn't want to use too much time. I plan on doing the other 4 tomorrow, then I will be done, until I come up with more ideas. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Coming soon
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. No new data for today. Robotics monthDespite the "mandatory" robotics project this month, I made no progress publicly on TuxBot, but behind the scenes, I have been rebuilding the concept. I haven't worked on the project at all for a week now - June 21st 2021 I made minor progress today, but only for work on the new website - June 25th 2021 No progress on the project was made at all today - June 26th 2021 No new progress was made on the project today - June 27th 2021 No new data, no new progress - June 28th 2021 None - June 29th 2021 Robotics month is over, no new progress was made past June 25th 2021. I wonder what is in store for next month, maybe I can actually make next month robotics month, or something else will come along. - June 30th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,400 (09.4K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of June 29th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. SocializingWalla Walla is pretty well vaccinated, but I am going to continue wearing a mask at all times when out in public, as being outside isn't an exception to me. I must wear it at all times. With that out of the way, I am working on socializing skills, and getting help for my projects. I plan on going to some Colleges I haven't been to since 3rd grade and try to find some help. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 24th 2021 I made some progress on this goal today, I am trying to find a research lab/computer lab to visit though. I wanted to visit a College, but I can't unless I enroll, which I don't want to do. - June 25th 2021 No progress was made today - June 26th 2021 No progress was made again today - June 27th 2021 No new data, no new progress - June 28th 2021 Anti-social social club - June 29th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - June 28th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoI had the time to do Marine Biology work, and DuckDuckGo image data upload work today. - June 22nd 2021. I did not have the time to do MB & DDG work today - June 23rd 2021 I really wanted to do DuckDuckGo and Marine Biology work today to get a full 25 projects worked on, but there were some technical issues (mouth) and not enough time (off by a couple munutes) - June 24th 2021 I got caught up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo image work today. - June 25th 2021I failed to catch up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo work tonight. - June 26th 2021. I successfully caught up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo image work tonight - June 27th 2021 I failed on catch up on Marine Biology and DDG image work tonight - June 28th 2021 Failed to catch up on MB & DDG img work tonight - June 29th 2021 I successfully caught up on DDG & MB media work tonight - June 30th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateI get a new clean slate to make progress on tomorrow (July 1st to July 31st 2021) I did significantly well this month, being my 2nd best month of development this year so far. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. |
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The first 2021 GitHub organization project has finished. It took a total of 57 consecutive days (May 1st 2021 to June 27th 2021)
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Repositories created so far this month:
Status update: July 2nd 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
temporarily resumed work for 2 days, day 2 complete (9/8 done) :📅: GitHub consecutive day count:
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a really good day with development today, making significant amounts of progress in various projects. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)2 days ago (Thursday, June 24th 2021) my laptops mouse started acting up again, which is extremely upsetting. I am determined to fix it this time, and when I get a fix ready, I will go and fix my other laptop as well. I have failed to report that there has been tons of minor graphicals bugs with this laptop, but not as bad as the last one, I am looking into the issue either being something with a video driver, the touchpad itself {sensitivity, settings} the mouse driver, or something else. I have not attempted to reinstall the mouse drivers yet, as I don't want to take that step yet (I have not yet tried For now, I will have to deal with it until I can resolve the problem. I have lived with this before, I can live with this again, easily. It will just be extremely inconvenient any annoying. The issue has not recurred for over 73 hours, as of Sunday, June 27th 2021 at 11:14 pm. This issue has not recurred in 5+ days, nor has any full system/desktop crash occurred since. I am hoping that if it returns, it keeps a pace of once or twice a month (can't be too picky) I do not know what is causing/solving these problems - June 29th 2021 at 10:19 pm Still no reoccurence - July 2nd 2021 at 11:59:59 pm See more below. Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Still the case as of July 2nd 2021 SimZonns projectI did not work on the SimZonns project today - June 17th 2021 I made no progress on the specification for the ZSIM protocol. - June 17th 2021 I worked on the SimZonns project very briefly today, just dumping some binary data for reinstalling the googled SIM card security driver (so that I can begin degoogling it, not the zip file) - yesterday I had some plans for the project today, but I didn't get to implementing them - June 20th 2021 Same as of recently - June 28th 2021 Will I ever get to it this month? - June 29th 2021 ... Yes I will. The project received a major update today, receiving source code in new languages (C, Shell, Objective-C, and Assembly) 4 new project language files, support for 1x to 6G, support for SIM cloning, and beginning of support for Apple SIM cards. I have finished laying the foundation for my todo list, there is still much more to be done - June 30th 2021 I don't know what else to do right now - July 2nd 2021 NexxFetchI did not work on the NexxFetch project today - June 21st 2021 Same as of recently - July 2nd 2021 Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. XORG crashed severely today - June 18th 2021 My computer did not crash today, although it got close. - June 19th 2021 XORG crashed severely again today with error13: 2 GNOME-shell crashes occurred today due to frequent file saving (force-of-habit No crashes have been noted today, but I may have found the program that is causing all the problems, which is No crashes occurred today, not even a minor one. The Ubuntu software store has reverted back to how it originally was, but I am still skeptical that Critical - Laptop cursor is having severe problems again, 1 temporary mouse crash today late in the evening, fixed with :terminal: -> gnome-tweaks - June 24th 2021 No mouse issues today, although when I figure this out, I just remembered this morning that I have an entire repository dedicated to this issue, and I will post my solutions there. I have also re-processed and now have all my strategies from last time ready for use again. - June 25th 2021 No technical issues today - June 26th 2021 The cursor issue has not returned yet, but Gedit crashed for the first time across my entire nearly first year of using Linux on the desktop. I was able to successfully recreate the small portion of unsaved data. - June 27th 2021 No technical issues today - June 28th 2021 No major technical issues today, Nautilus (GNOME files) crashed today, that was it. It wasn't severe, it didn't bring down my system, it didn't delete/corrupt files, it was all OK - June 29th 2021. No technical issues today - June 30th 2021 Very minor technical issues today, the calendar crashed upon startup as usual, I don't use it anyways. My computer temporarily froze a couple times in a period of 5 minutes, but didn't experience a display server, desktop environment, or operating system crash. - July 1st 2021 Other than the calendar crashing again, my computer has been extremely stable as of lately. I still can't figure out the exact cause of the calendar crash, but I am not going to look into it, as I rarely use it. - July 2nd 2021 FocusI had great focus today, until the sun had been set for over an hour - Still true: July 2nd 2021 Windows 11I have been looking into Windows 11. I am still forming an opinion. It will take a while for me to form a compact opinion on it, but I can now announce I will be supporting it. - June 17th 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 18th 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 19th 2021 I have found that since Windows 11 contains some open source components, it is not a fully proprietary operating system anymore. I am really happy about this, as this is progress. Now, all of the mainstream popular operating systems are not fully proprietary, and open source usage just continues to grow. I feel like these changes will help with the growth of open source as a whole. Kudos to you, Microsoft, although I am still hoping for much more Linux growth, which does not include Windows Subsystem for Linux. - June 20th 2021 Win11_support = bool(true) # I now support Windows 11No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 22nd 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 23rd 2021 Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 2nd 2021 GitHub pagesI tested out GitHub pages today, as I had a website project I have been working on developing (I have so many website projects, I don't know how I didn't think of creating a personal one yet) I deployed it with GitHub pages, and felt like I opened a new realm of opportunity, like opening Pandoras Box. There is so much I can do with this. Although there are some limitations I currently don't like too much, the whole purpose of this plan that I have been developing was to have it hosted on a Linux home server and have files I can't store on GitHub (specifically files over 25 mebibytes in size) I completely overlooked this, and the fact that I have to rewrite the website in markdown (I think I will just transition to HTML) I am going to have to have an additional public file server alongside this. - June 21st 2021 One very small thing that I like but also annoys me a bit is that after every commit, it does 2 checks. I like that it is doing this, but at the same time, I don't want to have GitHub do so much extra work for my small commits, and also not create a copy of the pages every time I make a change. - June 21st 2021 I tested out GitHub pages today, as I had a website project I have been working on developing (I have so many website projects, I don't know how I didn't think of creating a personal one yet) I deployed it with GitHub pages, and felt like I opened a new realm of opportunity, like opening Pandoras Box. There is so much I can do with this. Although there are some limitations I currently don't like too much, the whole purpose of this plan that I have been developing was to have it hosted on a Linux home server and have files I can't store on GitHub (specifically files over 25 mebibytes in size) I completely overlooked this, and the fact that I have to rewrite the website in markdown (I think I will just transition to HTML) I am going to have to have an additional public file server alongside this. - June 21st 2021 One very small thing that I like but also annoys me a bit is that after every commit, it does 2 checks. I like that it is doing this, but at the same time, I don't want to have GitHub do so much extra work for my small commits, and also not create a copy of the pages every time I make a change. - June 21st 2021
Today, I began an all out revolution with the usage of GitHub pages, setting up base camps, testing, and learning the very very basics. I accomplished a lot today. I now know to have 2 branches at all times, make pull requests more common, etc. I can't go into much more detail, I am very tired. Today is day 3 of my GitHub pages revolution, I still have a lot to go, and I am still unsure what is causing the syntax to fail and clump the rest of the page into a hard to read paragraph, although I haven't experimented recently. I have had an increase in pull requests, as I am starting to focus on branches more. Today is day 4 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and tested out the Today is day 5 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and tested out dropdowns and HTML with Markdown a bit further, but made little progress. Today is day 6 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and did some more usual GitHub pages work. There is still a lot to go before I am caught up, I don't have an end goal in sight right now either. Today is day 7 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and did some more usual GitHub pages work. There is still a lot to go before I am caught up, I don't have an end goal in sight right now either. Today is day 8 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had a poor time Today is day 9 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had an OK time with it today, creating 1 new page, and finishing one. The next page is going to take a little more time to prepare, I couldn't finish it tonight - June 30th 2021 Today is day 10 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had an OK time with it today, creating 2 new pages, and finishing one. I have been having difficulty creating the repositories, as I can't just log in as the organization and do it, I have to wait for the list of owners to load (600) and there is either a 1/3 or 1/9 chance that it will actually let me see the list and not get stuck loading. Today, I had difficulty, as something broke in the back end, and the list was cut off partially into the deep part of the S section. It took me nearly 15 minutes to create the needed repository. There is still a snap to create, but I reached my 25 project limit for today, so I will have to save that for tomorrow - July 1st 2021 Today is day 11 of my GitHub pages revolution. I made no progress today, I worked on other projects and didn't get to GitHub pages today. Date of start: June 21st 2021 (1) June 29th 2021 (8) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Coming soon
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. No new data for today. Robotics monthDespite the "mandatory" robotics project this month, I made no progress publicly on TuxBot, but behind the scenes, I have been rebuilding the concept. I haven't worked on the project at all for a week now - June 21st 2021 I made minor progress today, but only for work on the new website - June 25th 2021 No progress on the project was made at all today - June 26th 2021 No new progress was made on the project today - June 27th 2021 No new data, no new progress - June 28th 2021 None - June 29th 2021 Robotics month is over, no new progress was made past June 25th 2021. I wonder what is in store for next month, maybe I can actually make next month robotics month, or something else will come along. - June 30th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,600 (09.6K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 2nd 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. SocializingWalla Walla is pretty well vaccinated, but I am going to continue wearing a mask at all times when out in public, as being outside isn't an exception to me. I must wear it at all times. With that out of the way, I am working on socializing skills, and getting help for my projects. I plan on going to some Colleges I haven't been to since 3rd grade and try to find some help. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 24th 2021 I made some progress on this goal today, I am trying to find a research lab/computer lab to visit though. I wanted to visit a College, but I can't unless I enroll, which I don't want to do. - June 25th 2021 No progress was made today - June 26th 2021 No progress was made again today - June 27th 2021 No new data, no new progress - June 28th 2021 Anti-social social club - June 29th 2021 No progress - June 30th 2021 No progress - July 1st 2021 No progress - July 2nd 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - June 28th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoI had the time to do Marine Biology work, and DuckDuckGo image data upload work today. - June 22nd 2021. I did not have the time to do MB & DDG work today - June 23rd 2021 I really wanted to do DuckDuckGo and Marine Biology work today to get a full 25 projects worked on, but there were some technical issues (mouth) and not enough time (off by a couple munutes) - June 24th 2021 I got caught up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo image work today. - June 25th 2021I failed to catch up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo work tonight. - June 26th 2021. I successfully caught up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo image work tonight - June 27th 2021 I failed on catch up on Marine Biology and DDG image work tonight - June 28th 2021 Failed to catch up on MB & DDG img work tonight - June 29th 2021 I successfully caught up on DDG & MB media work tonight - June 30th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateI get a new clean slate to make progress on tomorrow (July 1st to July 31st 2021) I did significantly well this month, being my 2nd best month of development this year so far. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 3rd 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
temporarily resumed work for 2 days, day 2 complete (9/8 done) :📅: GitHub consecutive day count:
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a difficult day today, something went really wrong last night, and I had a more lax day today as I dealt with a lot of pain and stability issues. I did get to doing a hard drive backup today. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)2 days ago (Thursday, June 24th 2021) my laptops mouse started acting up again, which is extremely upsetting. I am determined to fix it this time, and when I get a fix ready, I will go and fix my other laptop as well. I have failed to report that there has been tons of minor graphicals bugs with this laptop, but not as bad as the last one, I am looking into the issue either being something with a video driver, the touchpad itself {sensitivity, settings} the mouse driver, or something else. I have not attempted to reinstall the mouse drivers yet, as I don't want to take that step yet (I have not yet tried For now, I will have to deal with it until I can resolve the problem. I have lived with this before, I can live with this again, easily. It will just be extremely inconvenient any annoying. The issue has not recurred for over 73 hours, as of Sunday, June 27th 2021 at 11:14 pm. This issue has not recurred in 5+ days, nor has any full system/desktop crash occurred since. I am hoping that if it returns, it keeps a pace of once or twice a month (can't be too picky) I do not know what is causing/solving these problems - June 29th 2021 at 10:19 pm Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm See more below. Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Still the case as of July 3rd 2021 SimZonns projectI did not work on the SimZonns project today - June 17th 2021 I made no progress on the specification for the ZSIM protocol. - June 17th 2021 I worked on the SimZonns project very briefly today, just dumping some binary data for reinstalling the googled SIM card security driver (so that I can begin degoogling it, not the zip file) - yesterday I had some plans for the project today, but I didn't get to implementing them - June 20th 2021 Same as of recently - June 28th 2021 Will I ever get to it this month? - June 29th 2021 ... Yes I will. The project received a major update today, receiving source code in new languages (C, Shell, Objective-C, and Assembly) 4 new project language files, support for 1x to 6G, support for SIM cloning, and beginning of support for Apple SIM cards. I have finished laying the foundation for my todo list, there is still much more to be done - June 30th 2021 I don't know what else to do right now - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 NexxFetchI did not work on the NexxFetch project today - June 21st 2021 Same as of recently - July 3rd 2021 Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. XORG crashed severely today - June 18th 2021 My computer did not crash today, although it got close. - June 19th 2021 XORG crashed severely again today with error13: 2 GNOME-shell crashes occurred today due to frequent file saving (force-of-habit No crashes have been noted today, but I may have found the program that is causing all the problems, which is No crashes occurred today, not even a minor one. The Ubuntu software store has reverted back to how it originally was, but I am still skeptical that Critical - Laptop cursor is having severe problems again, 1 temporary mouse crash today late in the evening, fixed with :terminal: -> gnome-tweaks - June 24th 2021 No mouse issues today, although when I figure this out, I just remembered this morning that I have an entire repository dedicated to this issue, and I will post my solutions there. I have also re-processed and now have all my strategies from last time ready for use again. - June 25th 2021 No technical issues today - June 26th 2021 The cursor issue has not returned yet, but Gedit crashed for the first time across my entire nearly first year of using Linux on the desktop. I was able to successfully recreate the small portion of unsaved data. - June 27th 2021 No technical issues today - June 28th 2021 No major technical issues today, Nautilus (GNOME files) crashed today, that was it. It wasn't severe, it didn't bring down my system, it didn't delete/corrupt files, it was all OK - June 29th 2021. No technical issues today - June 30th 2021 Very minor technical issues today, the calendar crashed upon startup as usual, I don't use it anyways. My computer temporarily froze a couple times in a period of 5 minutes, but didn't experience a display server, desktop environment, or operating system crash. - July 1st 2021 Other than the calendar crashing again, my computer has been extremely stable as of lately. I still can't figure out the exact cause of the calendar crash, but I am not going to look into it, as I rarely use it. - July 2nd 2021 A small 3 second freeze when copying 804,000+ files to an external drive is normal, right? My computer has been very stable lately. - July 3rd 2021 FocusI had great focus today, until the sun had been set for over an hour - Still true: July 3rd 2021 Windows 11I have been looking into Windows 11. I am still forming an opinion. It will take a while for me to form a compact opinion on it, but I can now announce I will be supporting it. - June 17th 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 18th 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 19th 2021 I have found that since Windows 11 contains some open source components, it is not a fully proprietary operating system anymore. I am really happy about this, as this is progress. Now, all of the mainstream popular operating systems are not fully proprietary, and open source usage just continues to grow. I feel like these changes will help with the growth of open source as a whole. Kudos to you, Microsoft, although I am still hoping for much more Linux growth, which does not include Windows Subsystem for Linux. - June 20th 2021 Win11_support = bool(true) # I now support Windows 11No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 22nd 2021 No new thoughts on Windows 11 today - June 23rd 2021 Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 2nd 2021 GitHub pagesI tested out GitHub pages today, as I had a website project I have been working on developing (I have so many website projects, I don't know how I didn't think of creating a personal one yet) I deployed it with GitHub pages, and felt like I opened a new realm of opportunity, like opening Pandoras Box. There is so much I can do with this. Although there are some limitations I currently don't like too much, the whole purpose of this plan that I have been developing was to have it hosted on a Linux home server and have files I can't store on GitHub (specifically files over 25 mebibytes in size) I completely overlooked this, and the fact that I have to rewrite the website in markdown (I think I will just transition to HTML) I am going to have to have an additional public file server alongside this. - June 21st 2021 One very small thing that I like but also annoys me a bit is that after every commit, it does 2 checks. I like that it is doing this, but at the same time, I don't want to have GitHub do so much extra work for my small commits, and also not create a copy of the pages every time I make a change. - June 21st 2021 I tested out GitHub pages today, as I had a website project I have been working on developing (I have so many website projects, I don't know how I didn't think of creating a personal one yet) I deployed it with GitHub pages, and felt like I opened a new realm of opportunity, like opening Pandoras Box. There is so much I can do with this. Although there are some limitations I currently don't like too much, the whole purpose of this plan that I have been developing was to have it hosted on a Linux home server and have files I can't store on GitHub (specifically files over 25 mebibytes in size) I completely overlooked this, and the fact that I have to rewrite the website in markdown (I think I will just transition to HTML) I am going to have to have an additional public file server alongside this. - June 21st 2021 One very small thing that I like but also annoys me a bit is that after every commit, it does 2 checks. I like that it is doing this, but at the same time, I don't want to have GitHub do so much extra work for my small commits, and also not create a copy of the pages every time I make a change. - June 21st 2021
Today, I began an all out revolution with the usage of GitHub pages, setting up base camps, testing, and learning the very very basics. I accomplished a lot today. I now know to have 2 branches at all times, make pull requests more common, etc. I can't go into much more detail, I am very tired. Today is day 3 of my GitHub pages revolution, I still have a lot to go, and I am still unsure what is causing the syntax to fail and clump the rest of the page into a hard to read paragraph, although I haven't experimented recently. I have had an increase in pull requests, as I am starting to focus on branches more. Today is day 4 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and tested out the Today is day 5 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and tested out dropdowns and HTML with Markdown a bit further, but made little progress. Today is day 6 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and did some more usual GitHub pages work. There is still a lot to go before I am caught up, I don't have an end goal in sight right now either. Today is day 7 of my GitHub pages revolution, I made minor progress today and did some more usual GitHub pages work. There is still a lot to go before I am caught up, I don't have an end goal in sight right now either. Today is day 8 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had a poor time Today is day 9 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had an OK time with it today, creating 1 new page, and finishing one. The next page is going to take a little more time to prepare, I couldn't finish it tonight - June 30th 2021 Today is day 10 of my GitHub pages revolution, I had an OK time with it today, creating 2 new pages, and finishing one. I have been having difficulty creating the repositories, as I can't just log in as the organization and do it, I have to wait for the list of owners to load (600) and there is either a 1/3 or 1/9 chance that it will actually let me see the list and not get stuck loading. Today, I had difficulty, as something broke in the back end, and the list was cut off partially into the deep part of the S section. It took me nearly 15 minutes to create the needed repository. There is still a snap to create, but I reached my 25 project limit for today, so I will have to save that for tomorrow - July 1st 2021 Today is day 11 of my GitHub pages revolution. I made no progress today, I worked on other projects and didn't get to GitHub pages today. - July 2nd 2021 Today is day 12 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress today, but I intend to get back to it soon, when I have more time. - July 3rd 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (1) June 29th 2021 (8) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Coming soon
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. No new data for today. Robotics monthDespite the "mandatory" robotics project this month, I made no progress publicly on TuxBot, but behind the scenes, I have been rebuilding the concept. I haven't worked on the project at all for a week now - June 21st 2021 I made minor progress today, but only for work on the new website - June 25th 2021 No progress on the project was made at all today - June 26th 2021 No new progress was made on the project today - June 27th 2021 No new data, no new progress - June 28th 2021 None - June 29th 2021 Robotics month is over, no new progress was made past June 25th 2021. I wonder what is in store for next month, maybe I can actually make next month robotics month, or something else will come along. - June 30th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,600 (09.6K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
"""how"""
# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
"""alternatively"""
# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 3rd 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. SocializingWalla Walla is pretty well vaccinated, but I am going to continue wearing a mask at all times when out in public, as being outside isn't an exception to me. I must wear it at all times. With that out of the way, I am working on socializing skills, and getting help for my projects. I plan on going to some Colleges I haven't been to since 3rd grade and try to find some help. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 24th 2021 I made some progress on this goal today, I am trying to find a research lab/computer lab to visit though. I wanted to visit a College, but I can't unless I enroll, which I don't want to do. - June 25th 2021 No progress was made today - June 26th 2021 No progress was made again today - June 27th 2021 No new data, no new progress - June 28th 2021 Anti-social social club - June 29th 2021 No progress - June 30th 2021 No progress - July 1st 2021 No progress - July 2nd 2021 No progress - July 3rd 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoI had the time to do Marine Biology work, and DuckDuckGo image data upload work today. - June 22nd 2021. I did not have the time to do MB & DDG work today - June 23rd 2021 I really wanted to do DuckDuckGo and Marine Biology work today to get a full 25 projects worked on, but there were some technical issues (mouth) and not enough time (off by a couple munutes) - June 24th 2021 I got caught up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo image work today. - June 25th 2021I failed to catch up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo work tonight. - June 26th 2021. I successfully caught up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo image work tonight - June 27th 2021 I failed on catch up on Marine Biology and DDG image work tonight - June 28th 2021 Failed to catch up on MB & DDG img work tonight - June 29th 2021 I successfully caught up on DDG & MB media work tonight - June 30th 2021 I am falling behind in DDG/MB media work today - July 1st 2021 I am still falling behind in DDG/MB media work today - July 2nd 2021 I caught back up on DDG/MB media work today - July 3rd 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 4th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
Resuming work on Monday (July 5th 2021) and Wednesday (July 7th 2021) further info will be available at that time. :📅: GitHub consecutive day count:
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today, although the Internet for my city went out and screwed things up. I lost over 2 hours of time due to this. I did work offline, but still fell behind in productivity. It took nearly 4 hours for the Internet to come back. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Template - July 4th 2021 at pm Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 FocusI had great focus today, until the sun had been set for over an hour - Still true: July 3rd 2021 Internet outagesI haven't made it obvious yet, but I really hate Spectrum Enterprise. They constantly boast about how flawless they are, then they contradict themselves by having major Internet problems multiple times per year. My whole city lost Internet today because of an outage on the 4th of July, that is expected to last from 5:20 pm to about 8:00 pm. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. Spectrum is a monopoly, Internet providers shouldn't be like this. - July 4th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 4th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 4th 2021 (day 13) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: To be determined
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a little less more time playing games. - July 4th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. No new data for today. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,700 (09.7K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
"""how"""
# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
"""alternatively"""
# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 3rd 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Template - July 4th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 5th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub Resuming organization work on either Tuesday or Wednesday July 6th/7th 2021 :📅: GitHub consecutive day count:
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today, getting work done in various projects, but failing to finish my end of day documentation goals for status updates and account activity logs. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 4th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 5th 2021 (day 14) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: To be determined
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot less time playing games. - July 5th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I briefly resumed today for the creation of 3 new organizations, and will finish off the current batch on Wednesday. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,800 (09.8K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
"""how"""
# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
"""alternatively"""
# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 5th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 No progress - July 5th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 5th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub Resuming organization work on either Tuesday or Wednesday July 6th/7th 2021 :📅: GitHub consecutive day count:
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today, getting work done in various projects, and catching up on documentation, but falling far behind on GitHub pages work. My long monthly task is finished now. It will reoccur on August 3rd 2021. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 221 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. ??DATA_COMING_SOON?? Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 6th 2021 (day 15) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: To be determined
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a little bit less time playing games. - July 6th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I briefly resumed yesterday for the creation of 3 new organizations, and will finish off the current batch tomorrow (Wednesday) Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,800 (09.8K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
"""how"""
# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
"""alternatively"""
# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 5th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 7th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub Resuming organization work on either Tuesday or Wednesday July 6th/7th 2021 :📅: GitHub consecutive day count:
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a difficult day today. I was sick with a stomach bug today, and got poor sleep due to it. I still managed to get everything I wanted to get done done today. Linux 1 year anniversaryThe 1 year anniversary of my laptop is in 2 days, on July 9th 2021. I will officially be a Linux desktop user for a full year, and I will have had this laptop for 1 year (although I haven't used it for a full year yet) Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 221 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 7th 2021 (day 16) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: To be determined
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a little bit less time playing games. - July 7th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I briefly resumed yesterday for the creation of 3 new organizations, and will finish off the current batch tomorrow (Wednesday) Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,800 (09.8K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 7th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 8th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub Resuming organization work on either Tuesday or Wednesday July 6th/7th 2021 :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 14 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 24 (25 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Needs to be recounted, it is really difficult to keep track of this right now. I should find a new way to do so soon. - July 7th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today, but didn't get as much as I wanted to get done completed. Tomorrow is a big day for me, as I will have been using Linux as a desktop operating system for exactly 1 year. Linux 1 year anniversaryThe 1 year anniversary of my laptop is in 1 day, on July 9th 2021. I will officially be a Linux desktop user for a full year, and I will have had this laptop for 1 year (although I haven't used it for a full year yet) Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 8th 2021 (day 17) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit more time playing games. - July 8th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I briefly resumed yesterday for the creation of 3 new organizations, and will finish off the current batch tomorrow (Wednesday) Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,900 (09.9K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 8th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 9th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 14 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 31 (30 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Needs to be recounted, it is really difficult to keep track of this right now. I should find a new way to do so soon. - July 7th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today. Today was my 1 year anniversary of all my primary devices running Linux, although my day wasn't the best unfortunately. I cleaned my desktop and changed the wallpaper to celebrate. I worked and reached the 25 project limit today. Linux 1 year anniversaryThe 1 year anniversary of my laptop is today, July 9th 2021. I am officially a Linux desktop user for a full year, and I have had had this laptop for 1 year (although I haven't used it for a full year yet, because it was non-functional/in repair for over a month) Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm Still no reoccurence - July 9th 2021 at 9:11:03 pm Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - JUly 9th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 9th 2021 (day 18) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit more time playing games. - July 9th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I briefly resumed yesterday for the creation of 3 new organizations, and will finish off the current batch tomorrow (Wednesday) Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,900 (09.9K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 9th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 10th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 14 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 35 (36 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Needs to be recounted, it is really difficult to keep track of this right now. I should find a new way to do so soon. - July 7th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today. I got a lot done via GitHub pages today, and got my usual work done as well. I woke up really late today, not getting out of bed until a few minutes before noon. I am going to have to work on this problem. I made significant progress with GitHub pages work today, and did really well documentation-wise. Linux 1 year anniversaryThe 1 year anniversary of my laptop is today, July 9th 2021. I am officially a Linux desktop user for a full year, and I have had had this laptop for 1 year (although I haven't used it for a full year yet, because it was non-functional/in repair for over a month) Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today... yet. - July 10th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 10th 2021 (day 19) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit more time playing games. - July 10th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 09,900 (09.9K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 10th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. Today (June 21st 2021) I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 11th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 14 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 35 (36 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Needs to be recounted, it is really difficult to keep track of this right now. I should find a new way to do so soon. - July 7th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today. I did a lot of documentation work today and had some downtime. I finally enacted a strategy to thoroughly count the number of snapcraft fork projects I have, it is expected to take another 2 days to complete (by July 13th 2021) and possibly by tomorrow (July 12th 2021) if I don't have as much to do tomorrow. I reached my 25 project limit today and had a good day overall. Linux 1 year anniversaryThe 1 year anniversary of my laptop was yesterday, July 9th 2021. I am officially a Linux desktop user for a full year, and I have had had this laptop for 1 year (although I haven't used it for a full year yet, because it was non-functional/in repair for over a month) Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today... yet. - July 11th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11ht 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 11th 2021 (day 20) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 11th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,000 (10.0K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 10th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 12th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 15 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 35 (36 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Needs to be recounted, it is really difficult to keep track of this right now. I should find a new way to do so soon. - July 7th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a slightly worse day today. I did a lot of documentation work today and had some downtime. I finally enacted a strategy to thoroughly count the number of snapcraft fork projects I have, I finished it today. I did an overhaul on my project language file sorting system, and it overwhelmed me a bit, as I felt like I did too much, even though it was a multi-day decision. I was in a rush to finish tonight, and it was a bit hard on me. I started 3 new projects today based on some recent ideas. The ideas are for a stock elevator to be used in software projects, a specification for files that contain multiple URL lists, and a powerful Git tool to manage projects more efficiently across various Git sites. I had a decent day today. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today... yet. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - JUly 12th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 11th 2021 (day 20) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a little less time playing games. - July 12th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,000 (10.0K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 10th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 13th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 15 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 37 (38 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a good day with development today, but a difficult day mentally. I got less than 5.1 hours of sleep last night, although I was pretty unfazed by being woken up so early, I had a good day with development, and had over 17 hours of uptime today. Last night, I misplaced my phone, and due to poor planning of Android security features, it was extremely difficult to find until the first alarm went off nearly 10 hours after I lost it. The "security" feature that doesn't activate the phone until you unlock it after a restart (introduced in either Android 9.0 or Android 10.0) hindered all my efforts of quickly finding the device, because family member attempts of using Find my Device could not recognize the device since it wasn't unlocked. Any more changes to "increase" the security like this will likely make the Find my Phone service non-functional. It is going to be nice when I can eventually fully Degoogle and ditch Android. The phone dillemma caused a lot of difficulty going to sleep and waking up. Tasks had to be done with a different device, and a couple tasks were delayed/skipped. I hope to not go through this again soon, I am going to try to take better care of the device while I still have it. During one of the many searches for the device, I found my glasses, which is helpful. They have bene missing for several months. I considered changing my profile picture to include glasses, but I quickly rejected the idea. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today... yet. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 13th 2021 (day 22) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot less time playing games. - July 13th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,000 (10.0K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit GitHub only displays daily activity for the top 25 projects I work on for that day or month. Any future project will bury a project under the list, and it won't be part of the list. Summer vacation #1I am going on vacation on July 18th to June 20th 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 13th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 14th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 39 (40 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a good day with development again today, but I still feel like I am making little progress. This project with GitHub pages is taking a very long time to complete, the estimate has now gone from 10 months to 11 months. I am making progress at least, I am near 10% in the creation and first draft process for 614 websites. I reached 25 projects today, and my idea for the Reactop laptop finally gained traction overnight after its proposal 3 years ago, due to someone (reedhww) in the GitHub developers program showing interest in it. This is the fastest any of my projects have gained 4 stars (less than 18 hours) Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 14th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 14th 2021 (day 23) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit more time playing games. - July 14th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,000 (10.0K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 14th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 15th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 42 (43 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a good day with development again today, but I still feel like I am making little progress. This project with GitHub pages is taking a very long time to complete, the estimate has now gone from 10 months to 11 months. I am making progress at least, I am near 10% in the creation and first draft process for 614 websites. I had some focus issues early on, and I got less than 6 hours of sleep last night due to some severe issues that started this month (struggling with Nihilism) and it is making it too painful to keep sleeping at times. I have gotten better at it, and have found some coping methods against it, but it has been really hard on me. I have also now future proofed my mindset further, from Y4.5K to Y2^Googol (which may not be possible to reach) I reached 25 active projects today, and made some decent progress. I had to write lots of documentation today (mostly stuff that can't be released until tomorrow or later) I could have done more if GitHub didn't put a limit of 25 projects being displayed per day, as any other projects I would have worked on today would have resulted in the description saying "1 repository not shown" this is due to the bad Thursday schedule. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 15th 2021 (day 24) Organization work continuedHopefully it was noted to @ghost{#followers that I have not simply ended GitHub organization work, this is a permanent thing. I have plans for more organizations, but I have held them off until Monday and Wednesday due to time constraints. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 15th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,000 (10.0K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 14th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 15th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 42 (43 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a very good day today with a lot of work planned. Unfortunately, I didn't reach 25 projects for 3 consecutive days as wanted, but I made some progress today. Tonight was really hard to get through due to technical and health problems. Clippy has some back as an emoji, so I changed my busy status to a picture of him, with the alt-text of Tomorrow is World Emoji Day, it would be cool to see the legendary clippy again, hopefully it integrates to GitHub. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 16th 2021 (day 25) Organization work continuedI did some organization work today, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 16th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,100 (10.1K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 16th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 17th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 42 (43 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a very good day today personally. I got to get out of the house and go swimming today. I dealt with a lot of good nostalgia today. Clippy has some back as an emoji, so I changed my busy status to a picture of him, with the alt-text of Today is World Emoji Day, it would be cool to see the legendary clippy again, hopefully it integrates to GitHub. It appears it isn't happening for World Emoji day, but probably some later date. I had a lot of issues working today, and I couldn't get what all of wanted done. I still made a lot of progress, and prepared some templates and template porting projects that will save significant amounts of time and effort. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount Publishing tomorrowI am publishing battery data, Note data, GitHub organization releasre data, and Git-templates data tomorrow, a day late. It should have been uploaded today, but I didn't have the time. I hope I can get to it tomorrow. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of data for $300, which is 200x more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000x more space than OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The TPM DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHUb pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 17th 2021 (day 26) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 16th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,100 (10.1K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 17th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social amn MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a poor day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 17th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub :📅: GitHub consecutive day count: :📅: Linux desktop consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 42 (43 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a very good day today personally. I got to get out of the house and go swimming today. I dealt with a lot of good nostalgia today. Clippy has some back as an emoji, so I changed my busy status to a picture of him, with the alt-text of I had a laid back day today, and still got some done, but not as much as lately. I am still working on lowering the bar for work as of lately. Some highlights today include the Submissions repository, which is for graphic design submissions for my projects, and also one of my most extensive hard drive backups in several months, clearing over 115 gigabytes of space (11.5% of my laptops 1 Terabyte SSD) I have been falling behind on work lately, and I have a ton of projects to work on. I also am producing less public notes and more private notes. I did catch up on Marine Biology and DuckDuckGo work today. Yesterdays status post came 1 day late. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no disk image offline install available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHUb pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHUb pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 18th 2021 (day 27) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 16th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,100 (10.1K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 18th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a poor day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 19th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
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Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) .github.io: 42 (43 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a laid back but productive day today, and still got some done, but still not as much as lately. I am still working on lowering the bar for work as of lately. Some highlights today include the new game collection projects Boom Bay and Frog Mania, and also the continued development of the SafeT IDE too. I have been falling behind on work lately, and I have a ton of projects to work on. I also am producing less public notes and more private notes. I haven't resumed GitHub pages work in a while now. Yesterdays status post came 1 day late again, I am considering keeping it this way for a while. Today (July 19th 2021) I discovered that another GitHub developer program member showed interest in my projects overnight and starred over 15 projects. I am really happy for all the attention my projects are finally getting, but yet again, I am still waiting to have a conversation with other users. I have almost 200 followers and over 4 years worth of work, yet I have had only 1 discussion with another user about my projects. Maybe this will be the time, who knows? Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 19th 2021 (day 28) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 16th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 19th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 20th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
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Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 16 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (unverified count, as of July 20th 2021) .github.io: 46 (47 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 20th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a very productive day today. I got back into work on GitHub pages today, and made massive progress in a major comeback. I created 5 new sites, working on 7 in total. I am a bit disappointed in myself for only finishing 4 out of 7 today. I discovered a fully effective strategy in creating GitHub pages today, which completely bypasses the method of trying to switch to an organization to create a repository page, which failed for the last time for me today. I am now able to create new pages over 200x faster with very little delay. Also, thanks to newer templates, work is also a lot faster now, due to enough of the markdown and HTML structure being there, and enough guidelines for what to write about. It still needs some minor improvements though. I am slowly working on this. I didn't do much else other than GitHub pages work today and work on projects related to the pages. I had a euphoric boost in the evening because I was so productive. I still feel like I have been falling behind on work lately, and I still have a ton of projects to work on. I also am producing less public notes and more private notes. Yesterdays status post came 1 day late again again, I am considering keeping it this way for a while. Yesterday (July 19th 2021) I discovered that another GitHub developer program member showed interest in my projects overnight and starred over 15 projects. I am really happy for all the attention my projects are finally getting, but yet again, I am still waiting to have a conversation with other users. I have almost 200 followers and over 4 years worth of work, yet I have had only 1 discussion with another user about my projects. Maybe this will be the time, who knows? Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 20th 2021 (day 29) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot less time playing games. - July 20th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 20th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 21st 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 20 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 46 (47 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 21st 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a very productive day again today. I got back into work on GitHub pages briefly today, and made some progress in part of the major comeback that started yesterday. I finalized the 3 other pages I didn't get to yesterday, and did work on 4 snapcraft projects, so that I would be up to date on that, so that there is less issue tomorrow where over half of my required project slots (out of 25) are full. I discovered a fully effective strategy yesterday in creating GitHub pages today, which completely bypasses the method of trying to switch to an organization to create a repository page, which failed for the last time for me today. I am now able to create new pages over 200x faster with very little delay. Also, thanks to newer templates, work is also a lot faster now, due to enough of the markdown and HTML structure being there, and enough guidelines for what to write about. It still needs some minor improvements though. I am slowly working on this. I didn't do much else other than GitHub pages and snap work today and work on projects related to the pages. I briefly worked on my KiXtart IDE project, and had some break periods throughout the day. I am further discussing the situation with the July 2021 end of month vacation, and I also dealt with nearly an hour of IO errors earlier. Yesterdays status post came 1 day late again again, I am considering keeping it this way for a while. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 21st 2021 (day 30) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortageThe solution to the semiconductor problem is an important solution. If we can fix it, it will solve multiple major problems. I can't solve it myself, it is going to take a lot of activism. The solution is to make Planned Obsolescence illegal. Just think about it. In this current age, there are billions of "smart" phones being produced, but hardly any of them last 3 years or longer before being replaced. There are several billion cell phones in landfills throughout the world. That includes trillions of wasted semiconductors. This issue isn't just with "smart" phones (smart is in quotes, as these phones are not smart, that is just a brand term to distinguish touch-based devices with the older cell phones/flip phones) it also applies to laptops, desktop computers, video game consoles, TVs, and every other type of electronic. Apple and Google are just the worst offenders due to how many devices they have purposefully destroyed in order to sell you the newest phone every year, costing you ~$1000-$2000+ yearly per person (family of 5 = ~$5200-$10450+ per year is what they want from you) If we were to design products to last, like stuff built in the 1980s, we could solve both the planned obsolescence problem, and the semiconductor shortage problems for years to come. For reference, the NES was created in 1985, and hasn't been produced since 1995, yet most of them that have been treated carefully still function in 2021, while I couldn't make a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge last for 4 years without the battery failing, the operating system no longer getting updates, the charger port failing, every button on the device breaking, and almost everything else being broken except for the screen, storage and RAM. Side note: this is also the longest I have ever had a phone last, I have gotten better over my childhood/early adulthood. It could have lasted longer if the battery hadn't failed, and the other important features didn't break. If we are to fine Apple and Google for breaking these rules, you can't fine them $5 billion dollars or less, as this is chump change to them. We need to fine them so much that purposefully not solving the issue could bankrupt them. More like $20 billion to $50 billion per offense (in the July 8th 2021 inflation rate) This is a societal issue. I can't fix this all by myself. More people are going to have to be willing to make the change to step into activism (or even slacktivism) everything counts. I can only further the message. My voice is not big enough to fix this alone. This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 21st 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 21st 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 22nd 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 20 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 46 (47 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 21st 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had an extremely productive day again today, despite today being a Thursday and having so many filled work spots, I managed to make it work. I did not do any GitHub pages or snapcraft work today, other than creating the new and improved version 5 of my default GitHub pages template. I did a variety of work throughout the day, and got a lot done. I have been discussing the end-of-month vacation with my family, and it is starting to lean towards me going. It is a 5+ hour drive, and my main concern is getting my schedule to work around these days. Many precautions are now in place, and testing will begin tomorrow. I worked on various projects today, and got pretty caught up on my recent notes. I have successfully had 3 days in a row where I work on 25 different projects. Today, I managed to span my work out just right to get a lot done. I also reached 191 followers today, getting incredibly close to 200 followers, yet so lonely, yet so little interaction. I worked up to and past midnight today. Yesterdays status post came 1 day late again again, I am considering keeping it this way for a while. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) - July 23rd 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 22nd 2021 (day 31) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. The solution to the semiconductor shortage404Data moved, data not found This now has its own article, see The-problems-with-planned-obsolescence by clicking/tapping here This section will be removed in the next few weeks - July 11th 2021 Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 21st 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 22nd 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 23rd 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 20 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 46 (47 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 21st 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I took a sick day today, as I had a stomach bug today. I performed poorly today, but I did spent hours on a different task, which took over 5 hours to complete today, and was in preparation for an upcoming road trip. I did not do any GitHub pages or snapcraft project work today. I briefly worked on Keyoff today, but didn't get to where I needed to be with it. I worked up to and past midnight today. Yesterdays status post came 1 day late again again, I am considering keeping it this way for a while. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 23rd 2021 (day 32) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 21st 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 23rd 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 24th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 47 (48 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 21st 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today, but still somewhat of a bad day. I dealt with lots of focus issues, stress, family issues, tension, noise, and 3 of our farm animals dying (3 of our baby chickens died, out of 4) they died of heatstroke. It was a mistake, and my family has been a bit upset by it today. I wasn't upset at first until being told a 2nd time, in which my brain clicked, and realized that yesterday was the last day I could ever see or hold 3 of them. Today, I continued my work on various projects, finishing the July 2021 KeyOff update, updating and modernizing the Team8Collection Game Collection project, creating 1 new website and 1 new snap, doing the normal daily work, and more. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 23rd 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 23rd 2021 (day 32) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 21st 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 24TH 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24TH 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 25th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 48 (49 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 25th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a better day today, but still had a difficult day. I was unproductive at many times, and I had lots of focus issues and tension. My mind is preparing to go on a road trip, and I am also going to bed earlier. I don't know what happened to several hours of my time today. I got very distracted with my WikiPDF project today, but didn't spend as much time on it as the past 2 days. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 23rd 2021 (day 32) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 25th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 24TH 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a decent day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 26th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 48 (49 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 26th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a very poor day with development today, getting very, very distracted by my Wikipedia curation project. I did not do well on any of my tasks today (other than Wikipedia curation) and I failed to do my journaling (so it was held off for the next day) and my GitHub logs (status and activity files, which I held off for the next day as well) Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 No reoccurence today, although there were a couple system freezes today (none of them resulted in a crash) - July 26th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 There were a couple small system freezes today that lasted 6 seconds each, but none of them resulted in a crash. The SD card was very easy today, working on the first mount. I finally figured out the technique of putting it in to the exact nanometer for it to work properly. No other issues today. - July 26th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 26th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 26th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Today is day 35 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 26th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 26th 2021 (day 35) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 25th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 24TH 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 No progress today - July 26th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 26th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a bad day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 27th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 48 (49 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 26th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I have not been doing well lately, and I did poorly again today. I was only able to do part of my normal work, and I made no real progress today. The Wikipedia curation project is also too distracting, and is sucking the life out of me, and I hope to finish with it soon. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 No reoccurence today, although there were a couple system freezes today (none of them resulted in a crash) - July 26th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 27th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 There were a couple small system freezes today that lasted 6 seconds each, but none of them resulted in a crash. The SD card was very easy today, working on the first mount. I finally figured out the technique of putting it in to the exact nanometer for it to work properly. No other issues today. - July 26th 2021 There were no technical difficulties today. - July 27th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 26th 2021 Microsoft actually listened to the community and removed the TPM 2.0 DRM cipher requirement. It is still over-specked (likely not a word, but you know what I mean) and not open source enough. Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 26th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 27th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Today is day 35 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 26th 2021 Today is day 36 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 27th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 27th 2021 (day 36) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot less time playing games. - July 27th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
"""how"""
# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 24TH 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 No progress today - July 26th 2021 No progress today - July 27th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 26th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I was too out of focus today. I will try tomorrow. - July 27th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a bad day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 28th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 48 (49 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 26th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I am still performing poorly, I performed worse today, and took the rest of my time off for the day to relax. I don't know what entirely is going wrong, but one of the top 2 problems is tension and consciousness. I did not do well again today. I am hoping my upcoming vacation (July 30th 2021 - August 1st 2021) might be a turning point for recovery. I am still trying to stay productive, but I can only do the bare essentials. Today, I broke my 1+ month streak of reaching Green 2 (>150 commits) it is not a streak worth maintaining if it is going to harm my mental health. I may be putting too much pressure on myself, but I am not designed to stop. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 No reoccurence today, although there were a couple system freezes today (none of them resulted in a crash) - July 26th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 27th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 28th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 There were a couple small system freezes today that lasted 6 seconds each, but none of them resulted in a crash. The SD card was very easy today, working on the first mount. I finally figured out the technique of putting it in to the exact nanometer for it to work properly. No other issues today. - July 26th 2021 There were no technical difficulties today. - July 27th 2021 There were a few program crashes today (nautilus, and a self-inflicted mutter crash by typing Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 26th 2021 Microsoft actually listened to the community and removed the TPM 2.0 DRM cipher requirement. It is still over-specked (likely not a word, but you know what I mean) and not open source enough. No new thoughts, no new data - July 28th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 26th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 27th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 28th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Today is day 35 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 26th 2021 Today is day 36 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 27th 2021 Today is day 37 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 28th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 28th 2021 (day 37) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit less time playing games. - July 28th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
"""how"""
# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
"""alternatively"""
# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 24TH 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 No progress today - July 26th 2021 No progress today - July 27th 2021 No progress today - July 28th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 26th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I was too out of focus today. I will try tomorrow. - July 27th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work again today. I was too out of focus today. I will try yet again tomorrow. Judging by how I have been doing lately, don't expect me to do it tomorrow either. - July 28th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was another bad day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 29th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 48 (49 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 26th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I started performing better today in the late afternoon, and I found that one major cause was a lack of electrolytes. I didn't do as much as I wanted today, but I still caught up on some tasks that I have been holding off since the issue started on July 26th 2021. - July 29th 2021 Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 No reoccurence today, although there were a couple system freezes today (none of them resulted in a crash) - July 26th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 27th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 28th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 29th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 There were a couple small system freezes today that lasted 6 seconds each, but none of them resulted in a crash. The SD card was very easy today, working on the first mount. I finally figured out the technique of putting it in to the exact nanometer for it to work properly. No other issues today. - July 26th 2021 There were no technical difficulties today. - July 27th 2021 There were a few program crashes today (nautilus, and a self-inflicted mutter crash by typing There were some program crashes again today, it was nautilus (GNOME files) again. Other than that, everything was fine. The SD card is also still performing nearly perfectly. - July 29th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 26th 2021 Microsoft actually listened to the community and removed the TPM 2.0 DRM cipher requirement. It is still over-specked (likely not a word, but you know what I mean) and not open source enough. No new thoughts, no new data - July 28th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 29th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 26th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 27th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 28th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 29th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Today is day 35 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 26th 2021 Today is day 36 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 27th 2021 Today is day 37 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 28th 2021 Today is day 38 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 29th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 29th 2021 (day 38) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit less time playing games. - July 28th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# Hover directly over the number and not the tab
# The number should popup
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 I am leaving tomorrow morning. I will not disclose my location until after I come back for security reasons. - July 29th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 29th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 No progress today - July 26th 2021 No progress today - July 27th 2021 No progress today - July 28th 2021 No progress today - July 29th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 26th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I was too out of focus today. I will try tomorrow. - July 27th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work again today. I was too out of focus today. I will try yet again tomorrow. Judging by how I have been doing lately, don't expect me to do it tomorrow either. - July 28th 2021 I finally caught up on MB/DDG image work again today. - July 29th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a better day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 30th 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
🐧 Linux desktop consecutive day count: 🪟 Windows 10 with GitHub consecutive day count: 🐧 Ubuntu 20.04 with GitHub consecutive day count:
Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 21 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 48 (49 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 26th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I was performing better today, but it didn't show as much, as I had less work time today. I arrived in Redmond and I have been socializing. It was also a 5+ hour truck ride. I mainly did image work today, but the upload rate is a bit slow here, and I don't want to waste bandwidth here. I assume it is safe to release my location, as the metadata of my location was already leaked, and I leave in 2 days anyways. As of writing this, I will be back in Walla Walla within the next 20 hours. I have held off image work for now, I will resume on Sunday or Monday. I was going to do work during the car ride, but I wasn't able to focus. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 No reoccurence today, although there were a couple system freezes today (none of them resulted in a crash) - July 26th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 27th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 28th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 29th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 30th 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 There were a couple small system freezes today that lasted 6 seconds each, but none of them resulted in a crash. The SD card was very easy today, working on the first mount. I finally figured out the technique of putting it in to the exact nanometer for it to work properly. No other issues today. - July 26th 2021 There were no technical difficulties today. - July 27th 2021 There were a few program crashes today (nautilus, and a self-inflicted mutter crash by typing There were some program crashes again today, it was nautilus (GNOME files) again. Other than that, everything was fine. The SD card is also still performing nearly perfectly. - July 29th 2021 There was no instability today, and the SD card performed decently again. - July 30th 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 26th 2021 Microsoft actually listened to the community and removed the TPM 2.0 DRM cipher requirement. It is still over-specked (likely not a word, but you know what I mean) and not open source enough. No new thoughts, no new data - July 28th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 29th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 30th 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 26th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 27th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 28th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 29th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 30th 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Today is day 35 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 26th 2021 Today is day 36 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 27th 2021 Today is day 37 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 28th 2021 Today is day 38 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 29th 2021 Today is day 39 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages yet again today. - July 30th 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 30th 2021 (day 39) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a bit less time playing games. - July 28th 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 I am leaving tomorrow morning. I will not disclose my location until after I come back for security reasons. - July 29th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 30th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 No progress today - July 26th 2021 No progress today - July 27th 2021 No progress today - July 28th 2021 No progress today - July 29th 2021 I made some progress today, I seem to have social anxiety towards family members, which is not good. I am going to need to work on my social anxiety further. - July 30th 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 26th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I was too out of focus today. I will try tomorrow. - July 27th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work again today. I was too out of focus today. I will try yet again tomorrow. Judging by how I have been doing lately, don't expect me to do it tomorrow either. - July 28th 2021 I finally caught up on MB/DDG image work again today. - July 29th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I am not sure when I will resume catching up. - July 30th 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a better day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
Status update: July 31st 2021Counters🎂 Days until 2 year GitHub
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Organization repo count guide Org repo (non-fork) count Snap repos: 23 (formula: Org:Seanpm2001-snapcraft minus current.unforked minus 4) (verified count, as of July 21st 2021) .github.io: 50 (51 when including seanpm2001/seanpm2001/github.io/) (formula: org:Seanpm2001-GitHub-Pages-Collection minus current.unforked minus 4) Verified count (as of July 9th 2021) unverified count (as of July 26th 2021) Count verification needs to be re-checked - July 13th 2021 ((X1 !-->
StatusMainSee my year in review for Year 1 (May 25th 2020 to May 25th 2021) I had a decent day with development today, and made some progress with GitHub pages. I socialized a little bit, experimented with Git with family, and worked on my usual projects. I also had a longer gaming session today. Lowering my expectationsMy mind recently messed up a little bit when I failed to work on 25 different repositories for 3 days in a row, and also getting 200 commits. These expectations are being removed, and being replaced with a "whatver I can do comfortably" amount. This was an issue on July 16th 2021, but as of July 20th 2021, I have recovered. Laptop mouse issues arise again (started June 24th 2021)As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 3rd 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Still no reoccurence - July 3rd 2021 at 10:19:01 pm Still no reoccurence - July 5th 2021 at 11:59:59 pm Still no reoccurence - July 6th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 7th 2021 at 8:19:05 pm Still no reoccurence - July 8th 2021 at 7:31:09 pm There were some minor mouse issues upon shutdown last night, but it might have been due to the system going very slow at the time for some reason - July 9th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 10th 2021 Still no recourrence today. - July 11th 2021 A possible reoccurence today, the mouse didn't freeze entirely, but it lagged several times. - July 12th 2021 Dragging files was increasingly difficult at one point, stopping the process of letting me drag files before it could escape the window, I felt like it was a bug with GNOME files/Nautilus. I remember my unstable XPS-13 doing this, it is similar to a cursor bug, but it wasn't a cursor freezing bug. - July 13th 2021 No issues today - July 14th 2021 No issues today... yet - July 15th 2021 The issue reoccurred today. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. It simply took typing It was fine today. - July 17th 2021 It was fine again today. - July 18th 2021 No issues with this again today. - July 19th 2021 My cursor has been acting a bit weird tonight, but it hasn't crashed yet (as of 11:13 pm) - July 20th 2021 The cursor was a bit finnicky today, but overall, it was fine and didn't crash (as of 11:52 pm) - July 21st 2021 Everything was fine cursor wise today (As of Thursday, July 22nd 2021 at 11:59:59:9999) - July 22nd 2021 Everything is fine so far (as of Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:08 am) No new data, everything is fine. :-} - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, although my keyboard has been acting up today, along with my touchpad (briefly) - July 23rd 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine. - July 24th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 25th 2021 No reoccurence today, although there were a couple system freezes today (none of them resulted in a crash) - July 26th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 27th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 28th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 29th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 30th 2021 No reoccurence today, everything is fine still. - July 31st 2021 Tribute to Dennis RitchieI did not work on the Tribute project to Dennis Ritchie today. Updates are waiting for his posthumous birthday on September 9th (the next occurence being September 9th 2021, in Computer crashCrashes before June 18th 2021 are not listed here. As part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I thought the Wi-Fi symbol just became glitched, but it wasn't an error, our Internet just failed, the whole city won't have Internet until about 8 pm, so I will have to work offline for 3 hours. So much for Spectrums "99.9% reliability" this isn't even the first time this year that the Internet has gone out here. No other problems today. - July 4th 2021 There was a small 6 second freeze today, but that was it - July 5th 2021 There were no new crashes today. I decided to reinstall GIMP so I could do some graphic design work. I am yet to see if this is going to cause problems. There was another small 6 second freeze today, but that was it. I am wondering if having music playing helps prevent the lag from crashing the system. It is better than Windows at least, because if it crashes, it is a bit more calm and will continue to play music up until the screen goes black, rather than scaring the s##t out of me when it starts loudly buzzing and flickering, and then crashing. - July 6th 2021 No technical issues today - July 7th 2021 It was a bit difficult mounting my SD card today, but the recent issue with Dongles has been resolved, as my hard drive was recognized, just not the SD card. I also successfully did a hard drive backup today. - July 8th 2021 Everything IO wise is fine right now, and there was no instability today. - July 9th 2021 There was some slowness last night, the cursor lagged a bit and made my heart race, but it quickly came back within 1.3 seconds. The whole system was going slow, and I was shutting down. Additionally, it got stuck at a black screen for over 20 seconds during the shutdown process before turning off, which really worried me. - July 9th 2021 The SD card is still slightly difficult to mount, but everything else is fine IO wise. The system is still stable, as of 9:28 pm. - July 10th 2021 The SD card was perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was no instability today. I recently got a new USB C to USB C cord, but I messed up on something, and I wasn't able to charge my laptop through a portable battery like I wanted. My laptop doesn't recognize it in the 8 different ways I plugged it in. It will still be a useful piece of equipment to have. - July 11th 2021 The SD card was nearly perfect today, everything was fine IO wise, and there was some slight instability. - July 12th 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, everything else was fine IO wise, there was a minor cursor issue today (see above) and there were no other issues today. - July 13th 2021 There was no instability today, unless you count IO issues, of which the SD card is still being difficult. - July 14th 2021 The SD card was incredibly unstable today, and took nearly 100 unmounts/remounts + 1 system restart to eventually detect. I don't know how much longer I can sustain this. Unfortunately, USB is not an option for everyday use. Also earlier today, my keyboard light kept dimming 5x faster than it normally does. It isn't too big of a deal, so I just turned it off. I hope it doesn't mean there will be further keyboard issues. I also tested it again at 10:29 pm, it is fine again. That is all that happened today with difficulties in computing. - July 15th 2021 The SD card finally mounted at the same time I got an recommended updates notification. The SD card wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. My system felt a bit clunky today. The mouse cursor issue reoccurred today. 4 minutes prior, another issue started up. The caps lock light got stuck on, and also required 2 presses for CAPS LOCK and 1 press for caps lock, and 4 minutes later, the mouse crashed. I was already upset by the caps lock button that the mouse issue felt normal, as they seemed to be connected. My heart didn't even race, but I hope it does not reoccur. - July 16th 2021 The SD card was a real pain today, but it still works. My keyboard was a bit dirty earlier, and all the keys were having problems. After lots of crunching, it is fixed. - July 17th 2021 The SD card was very difficult today, but I got it to work. I also messed up and didn't have all the files handy the first time, so I had to do it twice. Luckily, it was far less difficult the second time. Other than that, there were no other technical issues today. - July 18th 2021 The only problem today was IO functionality, which I have still not found a root cause to. - July 19th 2021 The SD card wasn't too difficult today. It still is a problem. There was also some sporadic cursor movements at time while writing this status file tonight. - July 20th 2021 The SD card was very, very difficult today, taking hundreds of ummounts, running this command: echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescandoing a system restart, and dealing with over 42 minutes of IO errors before I could access the SD card. The laptop was also acting a bit finnicky at times today, and had 2 internal errors due to tracker reset --hardDon't be afraid to run it. I have ran it on 3 different installations of Ubuntu across the past year and nearly 1 month a few hundreds times and have not received any damaged data from it. Other than that, it was fine. - July 21st 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. No sore thumbs. Judging by my data for the past 10 days, it is only going to get worse tomorrow. This is not a 100% there is still hope that it won't be difficult. - July 22nd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern. - July 23rd 2021 The SD card was slightly difficult today, but it was hardly a problem. It was actually easier than yesterday, so it broke my data pattern again. - July 24th 2021 The GNOME shell restarted today due to too frequent file saving. It was a user error, nothing was lost, and it was fine. Also, my SD card has been getting easier and easier to mount. Lately, it has taken dozens to hundreds of attempts, and in the past 3 days, it has gotten increasingly easier to mount. Today, I got it on the 3rd try. - July 25th 2021 There were a couple small system freezes today that lasted 6 seconds each, but none of them resulted in a crash. The SD card was very easy today, working on the first mount. I finally figured out the technique of putting it in to the exact nanometer for it to work properly. No other issues today. - July 26th 2021 There were no technical difficulties today. - July 27th 2021 There were a few program crashes today (nautilus, and a self-inflicted mutter crash by typing There were some program crashes again today, it was nautilus (GNOME files) again. Other than that, everything was fine. The SD card is also still performing nearly perfectly. - July 29th 2021 There was no instability today, and the SD card performed decently again. - July 30th 2021 There was 1 near crash today, and the SD card performed slightly worse today. - July 31st 2021 Windows 11As part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries from June 16th 2021 to June 23rd 2021 have been removed. You can find them in older entries. Windows 11 released: June 24th 2021 My opinion on Windows 11 has shifted significantly based on the announcement, with a growing negative attitude towards it. My new concerns are:
I am negative towards all these, especially the 3rd entry. I feel like Windows 11 is getting far too bloated and the Internet requirement to install is really stupid, and may not be possible in countries where Internet connection is not good enough to download gigabytes of data. It also will make it much more difficult to get a Windows 11 virtual machine, which is needed for people who can't have a Windows device, similar to the problem where developers have to buy a Macbook to develop for Apple, you can't buy every single device to develop, it will make it too difficult. There was a reason why this was already so opposed on Windows 10. This might be a failing point for the system, Microsoft, you should take note in this, more people should point this out to them, as my voice alone is too small. Another thing I find ridiculous is the 4 gigabytes of RAM to run the operating system. Not everyone has a super powerful computer, I know people who only have 2 or less gigabytes of RAM and will not be able to get this, I have also had to warn everyone in my house about performance problems, as the Windows 10 devices in this house only have 4-6 gigabytes of RAM and already run the operating system very poorly, and will not be able to handle the update. Even with Linux, with over 8x less RAM usage than Windows 11 (with Ubuntu + GNOME, the most bloated Linux combination; I could get usage down to 256/512 megabytes if/when I switch to a lighter stack) I am struggling to run applications, even with 8 gigabytes of RAM. I don't see this going very well. Finally, the storage requirement. Storage is getting cheaper, but this is still ridiculous for an operating system. When you compare Windows XP and Windows 11, it is obvious that bloat has gotten bad at warp speed (64 megabytes vs 4096 megabytes (RAM) 1.5 gigabytes vs 64 gigabytes (Storage, with some models requiring at least 1 terabyte of storage for some reason) 133 megahertz (1 core) vs 1 Gigahertz (2 cores) (CPU speed) 32 bit support vs no 32 bit support (CPU type)) - June 24th 2021 I forgot to mention this, but Windows 11 is still in beta, so some things can be changed. I don't have much hope in the RAM, CPU, or Storage usage problems being fixed, but I feel like if enough people bug, the issues with the Trusted Protections Module DRM problem and Internet connected install/Microsoft account issues can be fixed. - June 25th 2021 My thoughts remain the same, no new data - June 26th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - June 27th 2021 None - June 28th 2021 For the people who still use Windows and did not like Cortana, I have good news for you! Cortana is not included by default. I didn't have much against Cortana, I never developed an opinion on it, I just know that a lot of people couldn't stand her compared to other voice assistants. - June 29th 2021 I found out that Internet Explorer is officially discontinued now, which is good news for web developers. I will still be developing support for Internet Explorer via the BrowserNose project (quick summary: the BrowserNose project is a library that emulates support for every version of every web browser with as little feature loss as possible, all the way down to WorldWideWeb/Nexus (the first web browser) ) - June 29th 2021 This security thing TPM 2.0 is really sticking, I feel less hopeful about it being changed. Something I also forgot to mention was the removal of legacy BIOs support in favor of UEFI. I don't know enough about this to comment, other than it being another thing that prevents older computers from using Windows 11. - June 29th 2021 No new data, no new thoughts - June 30th 2021 No new thoughts, I did get to one of my extra goals today - July 1st 2021 My opinion towards the GUI is changing from negative to positive, I feel like Fluent Design is not the worst possible thing, and is a step towards skeuomorphism, which would be great, as minimalism sucks. I can actually tell this system apart from other systems now, unlike tens of thousands of releases of various operating systems and desktop environments from 2011 onward. Seriously, iOS 7 and up and Android 7 and up are pretty much identical in so many ways that I can hardly tell them apart. What is the point in designing a system if it isn't unique or different from the rest? Go and change the default wallpaper, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart, other than extremely small differences. - July 2nd 2021 No new data - July 3rd 2021 No new data - July 4th 2021 Forcing users to get a 5 gigabyte OneDrive account isn't the best idea. Memory is really cheap nowadays, even in the expensive Solid State Drive format, I can get a terabyte of storage for $300 even with expensive solid state, which is 200x more storage more than a OneDrive account. I could get a 10 terabyte external hard drive for less than $250 and have over 2000 tkmes more space than having OneDrive and every one of its account offers. Cloud storage isn't for everyone. Has anyone seen the videos I am referencing, where OneDrive immediately re-opens when you close it - July 5th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 6th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 7th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 8th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 9th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 10th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 11th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 12th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 13th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 14th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 15th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 16th 2021 The Trusted Platforms Module DRM seems to be illegal for Russian and Chinese Windows users. This is a good thing. I wish DRM was illegal everywhere though. - July 17th 2021 I am extremely disappointed in the fact that Windows 11 home isn't as much of an operating system as it is a web service. If you have to use the Internet to install a 64 gigabyte operating system, completely dependant on that connection, with no offline disk image installation available, do you really own your computer? Absolutely not. It is depressing. - July 18th 2021 I looked into this further, all 32 bit support is removed on Windows 11, not just for the processor itself, but for any 32 bit sofware. I am really glad I finally switched to Linux over a year ago, as I remember my games I had were 32 bit only. Things like this make me regret it less and less each day, there wasn't much to regret anyways. Although, it is time for the industry to move to x64 or x64_128, so this is actually a positive thing. It is still sad to see it go. - July 19th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 20th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 21st 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 22nd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 23rd 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 24th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 25th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 26th 2021 Microsoft actually listened to the community and removed the TPM 2.0 DRM cipher requirement. It is still over-specked (likely not a word, but you know what I mean) and not open source enough. No new thoughts, no new data - July 28th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 29th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 30th 2021 No new thoughts, no new data - July 31st 2021 Extras:
IDE workI did not create any new IDE projects today. - July 5th 2021 I continued work on the revival of the TalkScript project today, the project went stale for 12 months before I made a breakthrough and was able to continue its development. This was the only IDE work I did today, it wasn't the normal IDE work. - July 6th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects today - July 7th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 8th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 9th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 10th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 11th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 12th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 13th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 14th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 15th 2021 I did a little bit of IDE work today, starting the foundation for the SNU Programming Tools Batchfile, Pug, and KiXtart IDE sets. - July 16th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 17th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 18th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 19th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 20th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 21st 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 22nd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 23rd 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 24th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 25th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 26th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 27th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 28th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 29th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 30th 2021 I did not work on/create any new IDE projects again today - July 31st 2021 GitHub pagesAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. Today is day 13 of my usage of GitHub pages. The Internet went out during my prime time today, so I had to work offline. I made progress later on, finishing up 1 page, and beginning work on another. - July 4th 2021 Today is day 14 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did brief work today and started 2 new pages, but got burnt out for the night out of stress of an error I made recently regarding 3 snap packages being for the wrong environment (I needed to do /bots instead of /robotics) - July 5th 2021 Today is day 15 of my usage of GitHub pages. I created new pages today, but I am growing very tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. - July 6th 2021 Today is day 16 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I am growing extremely tired of having to refresh the page and wait 3-28+ times just to switch to an organization to create a new page. It was at its worst today. I did some inspecting and found that in the background, GitHub is constantly returning a 502 error and is failing to load the last few kilobytes of the data packets required to display the organization list. I don't know how to fix this, this might be something only Microsoft can fix. I wasted over an hour with this issue today. - July 7th 2021 Today is day 17 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but didn't achieve all my goals. I still got a decent amount done, writing README files for over 2 hours. I had very little issue with creating new pages today, although I only created 1, so it doesn't count against yesterdays issue. - July 8th 2021 Today is day 18 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did well today, but reached a limit and couldn't do more work. I also ran low on time. GitHub was not difficult with me with changing users today, so it worked out fine. I created 3 new pages today, and worked on several. - July 9th 2021 Today is day 19 of my usage of GitHub pages. This was my main focus for most of the day today, and I did incredibly well. I didn't reach the 25 project limit, but I created 5 new pages, and worked on some other ones as well. - July 10th 2021 Today is day 20 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 11th 2021 Today is day 21 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any work here today, as I was focusing on documenting snapcraft usage. - July 12th 2021 Today is day 22 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, working on 2 new sites, and completing a couple of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. - July 13th 2021 Today is day 23 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress again today, working on 2 new sites, and completing one of them. Despite having so much time today, I wasn't able to do as much as I should have been able to do. I am nearing 10% completion with the webpage creation process. - July 14th 2021 Today is day 24 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made good progress today, creating and finishing 3 new sites, and also finishing another one (4 in total) it is becoming a very easy process. I have the documentation methods nailed at this point. - July 15th 2021 Today is day 25 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not use GitHub pages today. I worked on other projects. Apparently, stuff I create on my organizations is included in my main repository counter, so today, I ended up exceeding 1,100 projects. - July 16th Today is day 26 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any, but I made some useful templates for future work. - July 17th 2021 Today is day 27 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. - July 18th 2021 Today is day 28 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did not make any new pages or work on any today. I am starting to grow disappointed in my lack of doing so. - July 19th 2021 Today is day 29 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made a significant comeback today, working on 7 different pages, creating 5 new pages, and finishing 4 pages. I found an effective strategy for creating pages that bypasses the account switching part of the work: I am still a bit disappointed in myself for not finishing the other 3 pages today. - July 20th 2021 Today is day 30 (exactly 1 month to date) of my usage of GitHub pages. I made minor progress today, finishing the 3 pages I didn't get to yesterday, and working on 4 snap projects to match the 7 pages I have worked on recently (3 pages didn't require a snap package) I might not be able to make progress tomorrow due to so many of my repository work slots being full. - July 21st 2021 Today is day 31 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't create any new pages or work on any, but I did create the improved V5 General template for GitHub pages useless, so you can't say I did nothing. - July 22nd 2021 Today is day 32 of my usage of GitHub pages. I didn't do any GitHub pages or GitHub pages related work today. - July 23rd 2021 Today is day 33 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Team8Collection project. - July 24th 2021 Today is day 34 of my usage of GitHub pages. I did some brief GitHub pages work today, creating and finishing 1 new site for the Numeric Liberation Front (NLF) project. - July 25th 2021 Today is day 35 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 26th 2021 Today is day 36 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 27th 2021 Today is day 37 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 28th 2021 Today is day 38 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages today. - July 29th 2021 Today is day 39 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made no progress with GitHub pages yet again today. - July 30th 2021 Today is day 40 of my usage of GitHub pages. I made some brief progress today, and created some new pages and finished them. - July 31st 2021 Date of start: June 21st 2021 (day 1) July 31st 2021 (day 40) Organization work continuedI did some organization work yesterday, but was not able to release and finish it due to time issues, and personal issues tonight. I still did not get to it today. SnapcraftI have recently started to work on porting my projects to Snapcraft, as an extra install option. Really, the only problem with snapcraft is that the server end is proprietary, the rest of the format is open source. I am still very new to this, and I have no way to actually develop snap programs. I have just been filling out the applications for it. As part of fearing the rising problem of software as a service, I am going to stop supporting snapcraft at the current degree. I am also going to lessen my support for services, and promote ownership of products. I am also going to start fighting planned obsolescence harder, as it is a real problem environmentally, and societally. Gizmodo link I have other research to support this issue, but there are too many to list here. I will list the full problem below. Phases of the year (2020)For my first year of GitHub, these are the phases I have gone through: January: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
February: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
March: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
April: No data, didn't join until May 25th 2021
May: the start of seanpm2001/Joining GitHub
June: the very basics of Git, SNU replatforming
July: Getting comfortable with Git and GitHub, July 9th, dawn of the Linux era
August: The rise of git-image, commits en masse.
September: The start of GitHub organizations
October: Average month, code distancing, and the continuing rise of git-image projects
November: Mass archival, mass projects, and first (failed) submission work
December: Wrapping up the year and the rise of the project language file, Meadows going onlinePhases of the year (2021)For this year, these are the phases I have gone through: January: Year preparation
February: Degoogle 2021
March: Discussion and code distancing
April: The race to join 100 commits each era/untitled month
May: GitHub platform month, organization documentation and creation celebration and acceleration
June: Robotics month, and GitHub organization documentation finalization, and Gist revival, the dawn of the GitHub pages era, web 2.0.1
July: Linux celebration month, GitHub pages era part II
August: Coming soon
September: Coming soon
October: Coming soon
November: Coming soon
December: Coming soonCompared to yesterdayCompared to yesterday, I spent a lot more time playing games. - July 31st 2021 GitHub organizationsGitHub organization work finished on June 26th 2021. I have not resumed work in a few days. Some work was done today, 4 new organizations were created. - July 13th 2021 Some work was done again today, I found a small flaw and fixed it. 1 new organization was created - July 14th 2021. Work resumed again on July 16th 2021, but I didn't finish documenting it today, so I will have to wrap up tomorrow. - July 16th 2021 Worked resumed again today a few days late. I created 3 organizations and finished documenting it. - July 19th 2021 Forks and repositoriesI did the usual forks as of lately today. I surpassed 10,200 (10.2K) stars today (projects I am starring) I am currently considering some new project ideas for when I have more time. """notice:"""
# Users who want to see my exact repository count now that it is over 1000, here is how you do so:
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# You can go to the projects menu and see the exact amount (if you have access, I haven't tested this with non-seanpm2001 accounts yet)There have been some recent changes to GitHub I don't like, a recent one from a couple weeks ago was when the icon for issues changed to a disk, instead of an explanation mark. It was completely unnecessary, and just doesn't look good. Some other recent changes I don't like include:
What is the 25 project limit
I have decided to start listing things I like about GitHub, as I don't want a fully negative experience.
Summer vacation #1I might be going on vacation on July 30th to August 1st 2021. I am still preparing for this vacation. Some things may be temporarily cut from my schedule. update: I am looking into it further, and I may stay behind for the vacation. Update: the vacation has been delayed, as of June 16th 2021. It is still on hold as of June 26th 2021 Update 2: the vacation has been delayed until July 30th 2021, and I am still undecided - July 3rd 2021 Update 3: several decisions are under way at the moment. - July 22nd 2021 Update 4: It is on! I have been preparing methods of setting up my schedule, waking up differently, and finding ways to become more portable again for this 2 day trip. - July 24th 2021 I am leaving tomorrow morning. I will not disclose my location until after I come back for security reasons. - July 29th 2021 Audio database framework update J2021I have been working on catching up my audio database framework. I made no progress on this goal today. - June 26th 2021 GitattributesI learned a new trick with Markdown Gitattributes*.md linguist-detectable=true
*.md linguist-documentation=falseOn Monday, June 15th 2021, I tested this trick for MediaWiki, which GitHub recognizes as WikiText. Here is the WikiText Gitattributes*.wiki linguist-detectable=true
*.wiki linguist-documentation=falseAlso: YAML Gitattributes*.yml linguist-detectable=true
*.yml linguist-documentation=false
*.yaml linguist-detectable=true
*.yaml linguist-documentation=falseReStructuredText Gitattributes*.rst linguist-detectable=true
*.rst linguist-documentation=falseWebVTT Gitattributes*.vtt linguist-detectable=true
*.vtt linguist-documentation=falseKiXtart Gitattributes (unsuccessful)*.kix linguist-detectable=true
*.kix linguist-documentation=falseI have not tested any other languages, I am still trying to test .svg .gitattributes .gitignore and .txt Giving ProtonMail a 2nd chanceI am still very upset with ProtonMail, but I have decided to give them a second chance today, and try to work through some issues via movements, and contacting the people at the lovely Switzerland office. I will get into contacts with ProtonMail, and learn this new mess of a UI. As of July 30th 2021, I have not tried ProtonMail again since the last login. I am extremely disappointed, as I may have permanently lost contact with a friend due to this. SocializingAs part of a cleanup process on this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. No progress - July 4th 2021 Very minor progress - July 5th 2021 No progress - July 6th 2021 No progress - July 7th 2021 Some progress today, a new document was created for socializing - July 8th 2021 No progress today - July 9th 2021 No progress today - July 10th 2021 No progress today, an experiment for portable laptop charging failed. - July 11th 2021 No progress today. - July 12th 2021 No progress today, although I did get out of the house briefly today, but didn't leave the vehicle. - July 13th 2021 No progress today, I didn't get out of the house today. - July 14th 2021 No progress today - July 15th 2021 No progress today - July 16th 2021 I got out of the house today and conquered my social anxiety a bit, but not too well. I didn't really socialize though - July 17th 2021 Lots of quality family time socialization today. - July 18th 2021 No progress today - July 19th 2021 Minor progress today, didn't get out of the house, but had some quality family time. - July 20th 2021 No progress today - July 21st 2021 No progress today - July 22nd 2021 Some internal (inside the house) progress today. - July 23rd 2021 No progress today - July 24th 2021 No progress today - July 25th 2021 No progress today - July 26th 2021 No progress today - July 27th 2021 No progress today - July 28th 2021 No progress today - July 29th 2021 I made some progress today, I seem to have social anxiety towards family members, which is not good. I am going to need to work on my social anxiety further. - July 30th 2021 I made minor progress today. - July 31st 2021 MaintainersCurrently, I am the only maintainer for my GitHub projects. I am looking for new maintainers at the moment. I can't do all this by myself. I am really looking for maintainers. I will train you myself if needed, but I only want people who enjoy doing it/really want to do it. Maintenance is needed on my projects. I will get each project ready for maintenance by you or someone else. Please @ me for the training course. On June 21st 2021, I made a repository outlining the beginning of my maintainer guidelines. You can view it here Other tasks/the todo listI have more new plans for work, and 45+ pages of additional notes for stuff to do. I am very slowly also working on going to bed earlier. I have been working off a todo list today, I did not make much progress on it today. - June 23rd 2021 The todo list has been getting scattered development, most easy and medium tasks are being done, but not large or immersive projects - June 26th 2021 Year In Review GitHub Year 1 progressI am still preparing the YIR (Year In Review) for year 1, but I need to keep gathering more snippet data first, as GitHub still recognizes May 25th 2021 to be in the wrong spot (I don't know how to better describe this) I didn't make any progress on this goal today - July 3rd 2021 I haven't made progress on this in months. - July 14th 2021 Marine Biology and DuckDuckGoAs part of a cleanup process of this status post, entries before July 4th 2021 have been removed. They can be found in older entries. I failed to catch up on MB/DDG work today - July 4th 2021 I still did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 5th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work tonight. I have been noticing a pattern of me falling behind on this, then catching up every 3 days. I would like to have it be a daily thing, but if it is normal for my mind and workload, this fine. - July 6th 2021 I did not catch up today, but I did add new data, relating to a theory I had on the possible existence of the original lifeforms of this planet (that they may still be alive, and what we could learn from them if we managed to explore the ocean and possibly find them) and also fishtank specifications. - July 7th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 8th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 9th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 10th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 11th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 12th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 13th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 14th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 15th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 16th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 17th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 18th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 19th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again tomorrow. - July 20th 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. I revamped the documentation for Marine Biology, and it is much better and more organized now. - July 21st 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so in 2 days. - July 22nd 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 23rd 2021 I caught up on MB/DDG image work today. - July 24th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so again in 2 days. - July 25th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I plan to do so tomorrow. - July 26th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I was too out of focus today. I will try tomorrow. - July 27th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work again today. I was too out of focus today. I will try yet again tomorrow. Judging by how I have been doing lately, don't expect me to do it tomorrow either. - July 28th 2021 I finally caught up on MB/DDG image work again today. - July 29th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I am not sure when I will resume catching up. - July 30th 2021 I did not catch up on MB/DDG image work today. I am not sure when I will resume catching up. - July 31st 2021 Vexillology workI have been planning this for a few days, but I now plan on hosting a mirror of the site FOTW.info which is one of the top Vexillology (study of flags) sites. Today, I decided it would be too cumbersome to do by hand every day/week/month, so I have started work on getting the project automated. There is still work to go on this. Wrapping upAlong with all of this, I did the usual Git-image upload work, and standard end-of-day documentation. Clean slateNext clean slate is ready on August 1st 2021. And finally...Today was a better day for development. I was wearing down while putting the finishing touches on this status post. I can't go any further today unfortunately. I really want to do more. Miscellaneous notesNote: these status posts have gotten very long. It is similar, but not the same to how much content is put into my daily journal/journaling. Starting with the January 12th 2021, subheaders will now be included in status files. They help me organize the content better. I am trying to burn this into my brain, as I forget sometimes when asked about my projects, which is: "don't ever be afraid to be yourself, as being yourself is all of who you are" and also: "if you try to be someone you are not, you will be found out as a fraud in the future" People don't usually forget this, but I need to give this advice to myself, as I sometimes forget it when asked about what my projects are and what they do. These status posts are going to be shortened eventually, I am still figuring out how to do so in a clean manner. |
End of monthJuly 2021 Status files are no longer being added here. See #12 for more daily status posts (For August 2021) |
Daily status - July 2021
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