habits
This post is to document the tracking of my habits for the month of February 2020 according to my habit tracking system. Here the overview of how I tracked against the habits I aimed to follow this month: * Exercise and Stretching: Similarly to January, I was again able to exercise
enlightenment
It is easy to say and it feels right to say that we should seek truth. Truth is one of the key tenants of the Enlightenment movement. Rather than following superstitions and other socially constructed concepts, the early scientists of the enlightenment sought out truth which may be obtained by
bootstrap
Next.js is an open-source framework for React that aspires to reduce the amount of boilerplate code required for developing React applications. Key features that Next.js provides out of the box are: * Routing * Code Splitting * Server side rendering I recently developed a small example application with Next.js and
headless-cms
I have recently reviewed KeystoneJS for a little project I am planning. I found it overall quite good but lacking in a few aspects, particularly in the way migrations are handled (or not handled). After some research, it seems that Strapi could be a possible alternative to KeystoneJS and so
graphql
I have recently started on a little project to organise the quotes that I have collected in years of reading (see kindle-citation-extractor). I originally got my quotes into Airtable but I quickly hit the limit for the free tier. I figured that it would be great if I could develop
programming
SQL is a very expressive and powerful language. Unfortunately, it has often been difficult to interact with database using SQL from object-oriented languages due to a mismatch of the data structures in the database versus the structures in the application programming language. One common solution to this problem where Object-relational
economics
The economy shapes much of our lives. It determines what job we can or cannot get; it determines what we can buy or cannot buy; it determines where we live; it determines what healthcare we can get; frankly there is little in our lives which is not influenced by the
habits
I found the system for habit tracking I adopted in July last year overall quite insightful and useful for keeping me on track for simple habits. I thus decided to continue following this system in the new year. Due to travel around Christmas and New Years it took me a
life
Since the ancient times, we were interested in categorising people into categories based on their personality types. Hippocrates distinguished between the four fundamental personality types of sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. More modern approaches identified different categories, such as Popular Sanguine, Perfect Melancholy, Powerful Choleric and Peaceful Plegmatic from the
I think I was on a good track in respect to sticking to my habits in November. Alas, things didn't go so well in December: Habit Tracking December This December we were travelling first to New Zealand for a week and then to Taiwan. That made it very
death
The less time you know you have, the richer the experience of living becomes. And your whole perspective changes. All of the little, petty things fall away and you realize how truly wonderful it is to be alive, even if just for a moment. The way I see it — life
exercise
After having done very poorly on keeping to my habits in October, things have greatly improved in November. Here the overview for November: Habit Tracking November Some things to note: * Exercise: While in October, I was only able to do exercise twice due to being injured, I exercised eleven times
