Review of time limits | Readings
For the past week I set the goal of limiting the time I spend on the phone starting with my technical reading. The goal was to have a clear time slot for my tasks which in turn, should help organize my life.
To get it done, as most of my reading is through my Pixel phone, more specifically from omnivore, I decided to use the app time limit. Although I started with 90 minutes per day, the truth is that it was too much as I divide myself between Firefox and omnivore. So I set 1 hour between each. And I think this is a game changer for me!
Where before I would battle for reading between every nook and cranny I had, now I set time aside to read in one skoop and if not possible revert to how I did before. But now I feel a hit of dopamine as a reward when I reach the limit and know I have the rest of the day for other projects.
I quickly set the time limits for other apps but I’ll keep tweaking the times as I make sure this becomes part of my routine.
On a further note, I’ve started coding a bit on an open source project to convert ebooks to audio. I’m very interested on adding style TTS 2 and being able to quickly allow anyone to generate a high quality audiobook from his DRM free ebook. Still very early on testing but I guess this is a side effect of having well defined periods for readin (it frees me to do other things).
Readings of the week
As a result of the test, I’ve gotten to read to a lot. From a list of >100 to read I’ve gotten into 49 articles which at this rate I should trim to zero in no time. It would be perfect if the 1 hour per day rule allowed me to ony to read the articles but also to read technical books/write a bit myself. Let’s see how this goes for the next week.
- Add support for COPY FROM DATABASE statement by Mytherin · Pull Request #9765 · duckdb/duckdb · GitHub by duckdb
- Announcing DuckDB 0.10.0 - DuckDB by Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen
- Analyzing Spotify stream history | posts
- Microsoft Shares Lessons Learned on Building AI Copilots - InfoQ by Andrew Hoblitzell
- Is the “Modern Data Stack” Still a Useful Idea? by Tristan Handy
- What it was like working for GitLab
- Copilot in GitHub Support is now available! - The GitHub Blog by Ajay Sarkaria
- Dorian Van den Heede - Your best Bet: Effortless MLOps with Python Models in dbt by PyData
- Why Postgres RDS didn’t work for us (and why it won’t work for you if you’re implementing a big data solution) | by Max Kremer | Jan, 2024 | Medium by Max Kremer
- The end of 0% interest rates: what the new normal means for software engineers by Gergely Orosz
- Hive Metastore - Did We Replace It With A Vendor Lock? by Oz Katz Oz Katz Author Oz Katz is the CTO and Co-founder of lakeFS, an… Full Bio →
- Tobiko Data - SQLGlot Jumps on the Rust Bandwagon
- AWS re:Invent 2023 - Construct your constructs: Use AWS CDK to create architecture at scale (BWP302) by AWS Events
- AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL-7B, A LLM for DuckDB by Till Döhmen, Jordan Tigani
- Pat’s Big Deal, and Transaction Coordination - Marc’s Blog by Marc Brooker
- How to get in the flow while coding (and why it’s important) - The GitHub Blog by Gwen Davis
- Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and Beyond by Bilgin Ibryam
- 10 unexpected ways to use GitHub Copilot - The GitHub Blog by Kedasha Kerr
- 10 Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023 by Sebastian Raschka, PhD
- Getting Started With DuckDB For Data Analytics In Python by Jie Jenn
- DuckDB, the great federator? by Christophe Oudar
- How to manage and schedule dbt by Christophe Blefari
- Introducing Universal SQL
- Use dbt and Duckdb instead of Spark in data pipelines | by Niels Claeys | datamindedbe | Medium by Niels Claeys
- Introducing Gemini 1.5, Google’s next-generation AI model by Sundar Pichai
- uv: Python packaging in Rust
- Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU | Ars Technica by Benj Edwards
- AWS re:Invent 2023 - Best practices for analytics and generative AI on AWS (ANT329) by AWS Events
- https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-column-explorer
- Scaling Large Language Models to zero with Ollama · The Fly Blog
- Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.io by Ben Hoyt
- Memory and new controls for ChatGPT by Authors
- Harnessing AI-Generated Cloudformation with Application Composer by Claudio Masolo
- Fixing small files performance issues in Apache Spark using DataFlint | by Meni Shmueli | Dec, 2023 | Medium by Meni Shmueli
Goals for this week
- Keep testing the 1 hour per day rule for reading
- Open a PR with a proposal for the epub_to_audiobook repo
- Advance on the AWS data engineering prep course