exercise
April marks the slow descent into Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Like everywhere else in the world, we are still in lockdown. I am working from home, which is not too bad. I was able to stick to many of my habits quite successfully in April, especially in comparison to
better-world
There are two meanings we generally assign to the word slack. First, we can understand it as a form of laziness or being negligent. If we say a company has slack safety procedures, we express that these are insufficient and that not enough attention and effort is dedicated to these.
goals
I've discussed a number of practices that may aid in the path to enlightenment. Each of these, I believe is valuable and worthwhile to pursue; however, in their sum, they are quite an undertaking to accomplish, and it is very difficult to practice each of them daily. I,
meditation
We should never underestimate the power of our mind to direct and shape itself. We can do so through physical adjustments, such as bringing ourselves into a comfortable position or by controlling our breath. However, we can also affect our mind solely in the world of thoughts. One simple practice,
fate
I have recently finished a play-through of the game Frostpunk. In this article, I briefly discuss what playing this game has taught me. Frostpunk is a game in which you build and manage a small settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. The temperature has fallen drastically globally, and your group of
habits
Since July 2019, I have written monthly about how I am going with sticking to my simple habit tracking system. I think from this month onwards I will try something a little different, where I will write more generally about anything that I would like to reflect upon for the
enlightenment
We would often find that having many questions and few answers is an undesirable state. This is good since it drives us to find answers but also bad since it encourages us to ask less questions to have a smaller problem to begin with... In my opinion, we are far
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
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
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