senjindarashiva

Hi all — happy to answer questions.

A bit more context on why I built this.

I travel a lot for work and that’s where the frustration usually appeared. I would write a sensible training week on Sunday, but by Wednesday the context had changed: bad sleep, long workdays, limited time to train, etc.

Intervals.icu is fantastic for analyzing data and planning workouts, but the moment where I kept hesitating was the day-to-day decision: does today’s workout still make sense given what actually happened this week?

Most of the time the answer is not “skip training” but something like:

• reduce intensity • shorten the workout • swap sessions • move the hard day

That’s the niche PacePartner is trying to fill — acting as a small decision layer on top of existing tools rather than replacing them.

Also worth mentioning: this started purely as a tool for my own training, so the design goal was always to keep the athlete in control rather than have the system take over the entire plan.

Curious to hear how others handle this problem today — especially people who self-coach.

I am assuming your in a country where you have to pay for university courses? If not I've personally found that it's an interesting and worthwhile complement to development work. Working as a developer and taking some courses in areas where I feel that theoretical knowledge is beneficial while slowly working towards a masters. From a career standpoint I don't think the degree while help that much however the deeper knowledge might. But again this is under the assumption that the education is free.

In microsofts defence this issue isn't linux specific... dual booting two windows 11 installations causes similar issues, where they invalidate or remove eachothers boot sectors

Don't you bring up an example of how a book can change your life in your question. If a book makes you view the world differently (even by a little) doesn't that change your outlook on life?

As a personal example a book/novel (how to live on 24 hours a day) made me change how I view my day, shifting from a work day focus (the day is finished when work is finished) to looking at the waking time outside of work as the focus for my day.

This is something noticeable both to me and my surrounding since it gave me a lot more time to do things for personal enjoyment or to help others every day.

And no it didn't change the world but it made a profound impact on my life by implementing a tiny change in how I view the world

- How to live on 24 hours a day (Arnold Bennett) A short and fairly simplistic view of daily life that really changed how I look on time.

- How to run a big ship (Cptn Rory O'Connor, RN) Really made me think about how much of modern leadership and management theory is a rehash of old theory. But now we replacing the individuals responsibility with hired consultants that should "teach" us how to work.

- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Together with my Grandmother really showed me a way to live with focus on what matters.

Apart from this there is a lot of fiction that has added up to create the ideals I try to live by today and to be fair I think you can do worse than basing your ideals on classical fantasy and science fiction.

I kind of agree but I think you make another point there, as a parent there is a big difference between getting drunk in-front of your kids and having a beer with food.

And it's the same thing with screen time and internet usage I don't think it's practically possible to have the same rules for adults and children in a home, bed time is an excellent example.

However you can still have clear and communicated rules for both the adults and the children that way holding yourself to the same standards.

In the bedtime example our 5yo goes to bed by ~1800 and the entire family gets up at ~0500 with the adults having a set bedtime at ~2100-2200. Of course these times can be altered by external circumstances but then we try to make the reasoning clear.

For screens and devices we use the same logic, yeah I work on the computer thus I will be using the screen more than a 5yo but outside of work I limit my own screen time as well as my kids, not the same level but a distinct limit to both of us.

So basically like getting grounded, which I thought was the worst that could happen but looking back it was probably for the best and made me rethink some bad behaviors.

I believe the key there is the fact that my parents made it clear why I was being grounded and spent the time explaining it to me.

The clip seems to be an extra but I've had good experiences with the supplier before: http://www.cowonglobal.com/product/iAUDIOE3/

Given the original constraints of the OP I don't think that would be to much of a overhead. A text and limited amount of images blog like page does not require any major tools in either of the ones mentioned. However you do have a point when you want to start adding more complex features, then it quickly becomes a lot more complicated than just fixing it in the plain html page requiring the change.

I think you kind of answer your own question here, Latex/PDF handles all of the things you mentioned with relative ease, with the only drawback being that PDF's can be hard to parse automaticly. However that point seems moot as well since it's fairly easy to share datasets and actual results separately.

Inventing new systems to replace latex/pdf and ftp (for sharing datasets) would introduce significant overhead without providing any tangible benefits.

So the big question in my mind is why should you move away from latex/pdf?

I've been using buckets: https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/ for a couple of years after moving away from YNAB. I find that it's fairly similar to YNAB with better handling of rolling over data from month-to-month and the fact that it's not a subscription is very comforting.

1. I try to write about daily life although I am far to inconsistent for that to work, I am a bit better at writing short reviews of books I read. The goal is to use the blog as a practise area for general writing and reflections about what I read.

2. Very inconsistently sometimes weekly and sometimes yearly... however as a target for the autumn I am aiming for monthly.

3. Currently it's a hugo site on a S3,cloudfront stack however I am in the process of moving away from US owned services so it will be moved to another host shortly.

4. https://fredrikloch.me

Putting a cap high enough to allow people to reach financial independence would be something totally different, and I do agree that such measures would probably stem "innovation" or at least focus it on only solving immediate issues.

However putting the cap at a billion would probably have limited effect in this sense, it would probably stop quite a lot of billionaire vanity projects though.

If you like history The rise and fall of the Third reich was really interesting https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Third-Re...

It's been mentioned before but meditations is great, but I would also like to add "How to live on 24 hours a day" by Arnold Bennett https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274

In fiction Sherlock Holmes and the Three Musketeers is some of my favorites.

Just for clarification, when you say public do you mean open to everyone (the internet) to make a code review or open for everyone in the team to see and comment on.

Personally I find the first idea fairly bad since the amount of constructive criticisms you might get from people far outside of the problem realm seems limited. Having them open to the entire team on the other hand seems like a good way to spread knowledge and to get input from different sources

Personally I would definitely avoid the modern mac-books, I bought one to try it out and after replacing two keyboards in a period of roughly two months. This only solved the issue of the keys getting stuck, it did nothing to the feel of the keyboard itself. So I finaly gave up and sold it to replace it with a Lenovo T470 which isn't as good looking but it does seem a lot more durable, and the keyboard is a lot better. The only thing I miss is back-lit keys, which apparently is available but I missed it in the checkout...

Make an effort to say something nice to someone on the internet every day.

I have never been uncivil online however I've also never been especially good at voice my positive feelings either. Therefore I will make the effort of putting mentioning positive things and not just nod approvingly at home.

The Call of the Wild translated for children by the Swedish translator Maj Bylock. This book opened the world of classical literature for me and without it I probably would have missed about half of the books I've read in the last 15ish years

Start a subscription for two weekly newspapers with preferably different political standpoints. Read all of them, this forces you out of your search bubbles while simultaneous giving you the option of slowing down your news and information intake

Id like to add, make your bed to the first step of the routine, it seems somewhat silly but I have found that it really helps.

No matter how bad the day goes you still did one thing and it's nice to come home to a well made bed

After loosing the key's once... I got a bit paranoid and set up a backup phone that stays at home. However lately i've started using enpass which allows me to sync the 2fa key's as well as the passwords.

I've always felt that making sure that you keep your work tools and your play tools separate helps with keeping track of what you are supposed to do.

Also if you can leave the work phone and computer at work and don't sync the mail home.

Basically I am a firm beliver of the idea that I need roadblocks to stop myself from falling into bad behavior.

The Guardian Weekly, for basically the same reasons as people have mentioned regarding the economist.

Weekly issues on long form without to much of the "news flash" of daily news.

I do kind of see your point at least regarding the usefulness of those types of questions in an interview. I would however still maintain that understanding of fundamental CS theory is and always will be a great benefit.

You say that you "never" use your CS knowledge if that's the case how to you decide if you are going to use a bogosort or a quicksort? I know that javascript simplifies a lot of these things, but you still need to be able to make informed decisions about performance trade-offs in your applications. And we still have a fairly large tech job market that does not involve any javascript at all, forcing developers to have at least some minor knowledge of datatypes.

Finally even if your target is to be a javascript(Angular/react/"whatever is cool right now on the web") developer at some flashy startup, I can't believe that some knowledge of design patterns, algorithms and datatypes would be considered anything other than beneficial.

And I would maintain that the internet as a whole would be a lot better if it was possible to view a page designed to display some text without having to download every framework created.

Sorry for the rant, I do really agree with you that there might be an unnecessary bias towards actual University degrees, this does not mean that the knowledge they represent (that can be learned without ever stepping a foot outside your door thanks to eh internet)is useless or not beneficial to any tech career.

How does stating otherwise differ from stating that civil engineers don't need to know math the have calculators.

Id say, learn about bigO notation rather than assume that it's useless. It doesn't require a university degree but it really does help, the more people that have an idea of algorithmic performance both regarding memory and CPU resources the sooner we can get away from all these "web-applications" that barely work but still loads a few mb of unnecessary js libraries. Apart from being annoying this also often leads to unoptimized code that causes wastes large quantities of cpu cycles draining the already feeble batteries of our mobile devices..

So please learn about and/or think about the concepts of bigO even if you refuse to use the math's involved.

If you don't have any issues with sticking to ARM https://www.scaleway.com/ have been working nicely for me, with the added benefit of it being a European company and unlimited network (capped at 200mb/s)

Personaly i'd go with C# or mono but possibly not MS SQL which would allow you to work in both a linux and a windows environment. The main reason for this would be stability and documentation. The C# language is both well documented and has good standard libraries while my impression of node is that it is an undocumented maze of mostly fairly new microlibraries. I also belive that learning to build good C# code is a lot easier than learning to build good node code.

I would not really see the need or have any practical way of doing that since most if not all of my medical costs is tax subsidised. But as this varies depending on where you live id definitely be open to it if there was a need

Basically twitter, I mainly follow a few news outlets that I consider reasonably accurate and that don't spam there feeds with irrelevant stuff.