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- https://www.hackathon.io for general events.
- GroupMe was actually started at a hackathon.
- I’ve read site reliability engineering before but google just released a new SRE book, Secure and Reliable Systems: https://landing.google.com/sre/books.
- https://netgames.io/games/ for these remote times.
- The actor who played the bipolar brother in ozark did a phenomenal job.
- Few items on db schema design:
- Always separate the address, don’t store in a single column. State, city, zip, street, number.
- First and last name separate. Of course.
- Dates and times stored together in ISO format.
- Store money as cents. Usually lean toward the finest resolution.
- Database normalization, reminder:
- 1NF: Each value is atomic. Can’t have a col with a list of phone numbers for an employee. Create a separate table with phone numbers and FK to/from it.
- 2NF: No PK combinations. Can’t have a table with a primary key of employeeID + buildingID, and then a col for name or a col for location. Each only depends on half the PK. You’re mashing tables together when they should be distinct.
- 3NF. Every col in a table directly depends on the primary key. No attributes just get thrown in the table as metadata. If it’s transitively related, make another table for the transitive part.
- Each form requires the previous. 2NF requires 1NF + the additions. It gets more restrictive as you go up. 3NF is the best.
- Denormalization is faster, but riskier. It’s redundant. Data updates must know all the locations to update. You can break all these rules if you want to optimize for specific common queries.
- Thuringer summer sausage obviously comes fully cooked. Remove casing, slice, eat.
- Adenosine is the chemical that accumulates throughout the day that makes you feel sleepy. During sleep, your body removes it properly. Caffeine binds to your adenosine receptors instead, so you don’t feel sleepy. But once it wears off, that adenosine didn’t go anyway – that’s why you crash. Caffeine just temporarily bypasses a sleepy feeling.
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- Can’t iterate enough how important this quarantine is for remote work. It feels uncomfortable because it’s novel and forced, but this is how the future will be in steady-state. Office work is doable remotely for many industries, especially software. Communication limitations exist, but they’ll be solved orthogonally. So much can be saved with remote work culture; overhead, environmental impact, talent pool geographic limitation, time of commute, so so so much improves.
- Michelin restaurant ratings come in 1, 2, and 3 stars. There are a little over 100 restaurants worldwide, 20 in the US, ~5 in NYC and SF each.
- Seder (say-der) = dinner/get-together on the first and second nights of passover.
- Added a bunch of birthdays to google calendar. Just realized we have tomorrow off for good friday, it’s easter weekend.
- Good thing that put option for spy 150 in a week never executed.
- The quarantine has doubled the number of subscribers for Disney+.
- Finished Ozark s3.
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- Almost 1/3 of all american renters didn’t pay rent for this month!
- Joey Chestnut is only 4 years older than I am. Thought he was older. Matt Stonie is 5 years younger than I am.
- Foxes are crazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/fx30nc/oh_stop_it_you/.
- Sent another email to the offer team at spacex instead of shareholder services, since a day has passed and they didn’t reply to my ultipro email.
- Regained access, changed pw, got all the documentation I needed and saved for my own records.
- Worked with my lawyer on a few redlines for the contract, purchaser’s rider.
- Rider is like an addendum, but usually part of the document rather than added afterward. Common in the contract world.
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- Inactivity screen timeout on android has a max setting of 10min. The user should have the ability to make this longer.
- The government took 43.79% of my sign-on bonus.
- House. Sent many more documents to Roger for underwriting.
- Got a digital copy of the old lease agreement from Sherisse.
- Exported actual paystubs from ADP.
- Collected the offer letter for financials, as well as confirmation of temp housing coverage (them wanting this depth is ridiculous given my other assets).
- Piecemeal 1099 from 2017.
- W2s from 2017-2019.
- Explanations for cap gains, purchase offers, w2 income.
- Emailed SpaceX for Ultipro access to download my old W2s.
- Noticed many many people using the word “verticals” lately to describe groups/teams/products within an org/department. Synergy, crosspollination, KPIs, altitude, the jargon of the professional world is so silly. Be direct.
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- Tried to order a pullup bar, for both at-home workouts and to hang in decompression. Back is feeling wonky now that I’m sitting all day in quarantine. Everything on Amazon is clogged, delivery was expected in June.
- Queen Elizabeth has reigned for 68 years and has only given 5 televised speeches. The most recent was the coronavirus address.
- Temporary water shutdowns for planned plumbing maintenance on Thursday between 930 and 4.
- Touched based with Karen about the temp house, going to pursue the 1 month extension.
- Fake glass is made from sugar in movies. Fall through windows, smash over each other’s heads, etc.
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- Upgraded to wordpress 5.4. Automattic is the company behind wp, remember.
- Got the deal sheet, which has seller/broker/attorney info.
- Jay is handling the due diligence material, offering plan, amendments, co-op financials, and he inquired about remote review of board minutes during this weird time.
- Skimmed over the sale contract. The attorneys are iterating.
- Personalty = personal property.
- Started Ozark.
- Turned my home station into a (non-adjustable) standing desk.
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- Installed HMTL 5 plugin for playback speed, for sites that don’t have controls for this built-in (like Vimeo).
- Guy has awesome charts on transport data: https://github.com/toddwschneider/
- Watched a good video on covid-19: https://vimeo.com/399733860?fbclid=IwAR2Y1NOMJQ-W4vJrdYBxWlEp3BRkjWOCPqLyn_n6y5xeRnM5NMoVeRjY2L4. Takeway was basically that it’s prolonged contact with the virus for contraction. One droplet on one grocery bag isn’t going to infect you.
- Docusign is surging similar to zoom.
- There is a lot of TRASH with clickbait titles like this on Medium, but this one is great: https://medium.com/swlh/8-easy-things-you-did-not-know-your-brain-needs-44a1aff51d60.
- Bought Eric and Dad’s bday presents, both are awesome (I want them).
- House.
- Gave peter a heads-up that I’ll need the contact info from seller, agent, attorney.
- Told Jay I’m ready for any next steps, just let me know how I can expedite the contract.
- Collected documents for underwriting. Sent all to Roger over BoA secure mail. Current driver’s license. 1099s and full tax returns from 2017, 2018, 2019. Temp house lease agreement. Rent history, 12 months. BoA statements for the past 2 months. Solium statement for the calendar year thus far. Pay stubs in last 30 days.
- Only things I still need: Executed Purchase Contract, Earnest Money Deposit Check, and the contact info from all parties on the seller’s side.
- Lumin PDF is a bad product. Takes so long to long. Can’t believe it’s the default pdf viewer integration for such a universal app, gdrive.
- More zoom codenames.
