Brain storming

• Books to link
  • Great Boss Dead Boss
  • The 4 hour Work Week
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad

• Concepts
  • Agile Engineering
  • Containers and Orchestration
  • Static Code Analysis

• Things to Learn
  • How to indent (or box) lists
    • Found – select list on a new “paragraph”
    • Put in heading
    • Indent by hitting space,
    • outdent by hitting backspace in the first character of the line
  • How to add a link
    • Copy url to clipboard
    • Highlight a section requiring a link
    • Press CTRL + K
    • Press CTRL + V
    • In theory you could just hit CTRL + V, but when I press return the line is deleted.
  • Editing in WordPress
    • Experimentation is bringing it along

• Things to not do on this platform
  • Teach marketing and self promotion

• Mindset Resources
  • Ed Dale – Your First Dollar.com
  • Ali Abdaal – YouTube – Productivity
  • Tim Ferriss – Books and Podcasts
• Linux Resources
  • Phoronix – Linux benchmarking
• Home Lab Resources
  • Jeff Geerling’s YouTube channel
• Raspberry Pi Resources
  • AdaFruit Forums
  • raspberrypi.org Forums
  • raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/ Forums
• Projects
  • Wayback machine to pull posts from geekswithblogs.com/geekusconlivus  
  • Wayback machine to pull posts from pragmaticagility.com
  • Update and maintain LinkedIn profile
  • Explore “Notion” (second brain)

• Article Ideas
  • The 5 pillars of Agile Engineering
    • TDD – Probably not what you think it is
    • CI / CD – Stay deployable
    • Refactoring
      • Technical Debt reduction – Static Code Analysis
        • Cyclomatic Complexity
        • Cognitive Complexity
        • Long lines
        • Long methods
        • Long Files
      • DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself
        • Code duplication is the path to Whack-A-Mole
    • Call Your Shot – Short Sprints – 90 minutes to 2 weeks
    • Your laptop as a production environment
  • Why the A+ is worth your time
  • Clouds – What’s the big deal?
  • A Pi Stack – Your $300 dollar home lab.
  • Setting up SonarQube for JS (and C#, and Java, ect)
  • Setting up Splunk
  • Setting up Splunk to use JSON data displays
  • Why you want to roll your own

• Activity
  • Look, again, at adding pin extenders on the POE hat – Fail
    • Write note to AdaFruit technical support
    • Write note to Red Shirt Jeff about modifying the POE hat
  • Tweet asking about a non-racist way of saying “You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back”
  • Play two games of Pandemic on Steam. Lose one, win one.
  • Get stuck looking at LinkedIn for a bit
  • Reset progress on Udemy WordPress Course
  • Start work on Udemy WordPress Course
  • Take a break, hang out, have dinner
  • Do an hour of Khan Academy – Algebra II Baby !
  • Complete 3 pomodoros of math, go backwards – #Find out where you are and not where you think you are