100 Days, Day 15: Week 2 Reflections
I am very tired. I did a lot this past week, but at the cost of a fair amount of sleep and falling into some bad habits.
The Good
In the interest of giving myself credit, the two big things I did last week are set up a notes page and set up a hot-reloading dev server for threejs sketches, which I'm currently just running manually on days that I use it until I come up with a satisfying way to host "complete" sketches. Using the latter, I set up a draft of a jitsi meet to three.js "3D video chat".
I've learned a lot more about webpack, nginx, and started to learn a bit more about jitsi/webRTC, which is exciting. The Three setup is close to being a way for me to keep a daily "sketching" practice online and publicly available, which is good.
The Bad
A lot of this time was spent fully in hyperfocus. I didn't do a great job of keeping track of the work I was doing, particularly with webpack, and didn't take time to zoom out and think about why I'm doing things, priority order, so and so forth.
If, like I said last week, the point of this project is to become a more organized person, publicly, online, I'm not sure this past week was a success. I got bogged down in a lot of particulars, hyperfocused on problems, at the expense of that organization and sense of purpose I've been seeking.
I'm still putting off a lot of the migration I'd like to do - while I've started using TiddlyWiki, I haven't done any work on migrating old notes, bookmarks, etc. over. Same with the Three dev server - I ended up with a pretty good setup for work going forward, but lost track of my original goal of moving over and hosting all those old sketches.
More broadly, I'm having trouble goal-setting, missing the forest for the trees. I love to throw myself into the problem right in front of me, and that's certainly better than doing nothing, but why am I doing what I'm doing? Am I trying to build portfolio pieces to completion? Am I just trying to have fun? Am I trying to be more organized?
It's some combination of all of the above, but sometimes these goals are conflicting, and I haven't been taking a step back to ask myself how what I'm doing affects my short-term and long-term goals.
I think, in a running theme for me, the issue here is priority. I love to throw myself into new things, but I tend to put off dealing with the old. But part of what I'm hoping for out of this project is to dig into the old, excavate my archives, and build a home where new thoughts and old thoughts can easily be found and interact with each other. So to that end, here's some accounting and planning for next week.
Accomplished
- Fixed existing TiddlyWiki structure
- Started using TiddlyWiki
- 1 blog post
- Daily updates in TiddlyWiki
- Set up webpack/Three.js sketch server
- Built boilerplate of above, put on GitHub
- Set up first pass of Jitsi > Three server
Goals For Next Week
- More consistent project tracking, note-taking.
- More thorough list of potential projects - some sort of project-tracking integration would be good for this.
- Think through priority and specifics – more diagrams?
Near-Term Project Grab Bag
Crossing out old ones, new ones in italics.
Infrastructure
- Get to fully self-hosted
Fix TiddlyWiki saving, looks like an issue with URL prefixing- Work on website aesthetic
- Add blog comments
- Self-tracking
Solution for code sketches (embedded editor? another separate server?)(started this with Three server, but still interested in other options
Creative
Video chat > Three.js (what if this, but video chat?)- More work building out video chat server: select your own objects/modify their appearance, share that state across clients.
- Mini-apps like hundred days tracker
- Code sketches: sacred geometry, 10-dimensionalism, building the boat while I'm sailing it
Knowledge Management
Password protect TiddlyWiki lolGet more familiar with TiddlyWiki- Tagging system
Start using TiddlyWiki instead of OneNote for daily note-taking- Start by migrating one thing - are.na is a good candidate