I got a Pluralsight membership for a year. It was 30% off.
Right now I am going through some Java 8, Spring and microservices tutorials. My Java skills are out of date. After that, I think I will look at some Go again. There is one on microservices in Go that looks interesting.
I still would like to get through all the books in “The Little Schemer” series and then go through SICP. But sometimes I wonder if spending all that time on Scheme may have been a mistake. Perhaps I should have just been building some web apps in Clojure. Maybe going for “enlightenment” was not the best idea.
I have also been struggling with updating my laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu. I think the issue might be that I have snap disabled. There were a few stories on Hacker News that convinced me to disable snap (see here and here), and now I cannot upgrade.
For my next laptop, I plan on buying one with Linux pre-installed. I might get a Dell, but since they only offer Ubuntu I might go with another vendor. I am looking at System76 (submissions to Hacker News at this page) or Purism (Hacker News submissions at this page). They both offer systems with either Ubuntu or their own Linux. I think in both cases their OSes are derived from Ubuntu. Purism’s is PureOS, and System76’s is PopOS.
One thing I would really like is to be able to disable the mousepad. If I don’t attach a USB keyboard, I always hit the mousepad with my thumb. In all seriousness, who came up with that gesture anyway? It’s not like anyone ever lifts up their mouse and puts it down.
You’re welcome.
Image from the Morgan Beatus, a 10th century manuscript of ‘Commentary on the Apocalypse‘, written in the 8th century by Beatus of Liébana; image from Arachne, licensed under Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND 3.0).