Weekly Planning Post 1

Published by Jackie Meggesto on March 13, 2017 in planning, blog and organization

It's Monday, March 13th, 2017, and a new week lies ahead of me, tender and raw, like a slab of meat waiting for a butcher to carve off its choicest cuts. Usually I shamble through each week, happening upon those delightful morsels with no real rhyme or reason. Most of the time, that approach allows me to discover knowledge and arrive at new understandings in a very holistic and organic way, taking me down paths I wouldn't have expected. Sometimes it leads to the opposite - stagnation and inaction because of a lack of clear goals, or a lack of motivation. Starting this week, I've decided to try something different - writing a blog post each Monday that outlines in some detail the things I want to accomplish or attempt in the next seven days. It won't necessarily be an exhaustive outline that has me following a rigid itinerary, but it'll hopefully provide some much-needed scaffolding for my weekly activities. Each Sunday, I'll write a "Weekly Reflection" that discusses what I learned and did each day of the previous week, how I'm feeling in general, etc. I'm excited to see how this scheme plays out and if it's better than how I'd been working before. So without further ado, let's make a plan.

Monday, March 13

* Implement min/max heap from memory
* Do 2 Hackerrank problems
* Brush up on Dijkstra's Algorithm, read up on A* 
* Get this blog's homepage out of "under construction" phase
* Work on implementing pow() function for Zig 
* Remember to take my passata and bucatini home from RC 
* Take down TweetBoy (twitter.com/_Tweet_Boy) and write blog post about it
* Start taking a look at High Performance Python

Tuesday, March 14

* Read up more on Emacs, how it works, how to customize
* 2 hackerrank problems
* Read up on red-black trees/AVL trees
* Work on Haskell HTTP Server, begin writing RC presentation on the topic
* Continue with NICTA FP course
* Continue analysis of "no red pixels" strawberry image, work on blog post
* Resume polish/review?

Wednesday, March 15

* Read up on GPG, crypto
* Look into doing open source work for Zulip
* 2 hackerrank problems
* Play more with Three.js, expand blog's playground page
* Work more on HTTP server

Thursday, March 16

* Finish up Haskell HTTP server presentation
* Deliver aforementioned presentation
* Continue working on Zig
* 2 hackerrank problems
* Read up on graph algorithms

Friday, March 17