From ce50fbcdd51f47bad3fd85e91c030879ce5dfad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cara Salter Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 16:08:35 -0400 Subject: Spring Semester Status --- Cargo.lock | 2 +- blog/spring-semester-22.md | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 blog/spring-semester-22.md diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock index 448d6f1..ecb5c0e 100644 --- a/Cargo.lock +++ b/Cargo.lock @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ dependencies = [ [[package]] name = "site" -version = "0.1.0" +version = "0.2.1" dependencies = [ "chrono", "color-eyre", diff --git a/blog/spring-semester-22.md b/blog/spring-semester-22.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..247c6db --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/spring-semester-22.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +title: Status Update - Spring Semester 2022 +date: 2022-05-06 +--- + +# Preface +Hi all! Another semester has come and gone, bringing with it the end of my first +year at WPI, and of college in general. It's been one hell of a year, but I +think I've grown as a person and dealt with my problems in, if not a healthy +way, then at least not an unhealthy way. + +# Personal +Over the C term break, I successfully transferred jobs from the Service Desk to +Network Operations. This is a lot closer to what I want to do for a living, and +so far it's been a lot of fun. Most of the work involved is patching and +testing, but I've also been working on some of the internal software tools, as +well as being a general Linux geek. One of the one's I'm most proud of is +`dns-plotter`, which was written to help debug some DNS resolution issues a few +weeks ago. Basically, it takes a target address and a DNS resolver, and tries to +resolve the address every so often. When it's done, it graphs the results using +`gnuplot(1)`. The source code can be found [here][dns-plotter]. + +# Projects +### Campmaster Constantine +Unfortunately, Campmaster Constantine's service was sunset on 11 February when +the entire two-year-old database was wiped out overnight. You can read more +about that [here][glitch-campmaster]. I'm working on the replacement, which can +be found at that site. + +# Organization +I've started making daily lists of my tasks following a mangling of bullet +journaling, where each task gets a special symbol depending on its status +(to-do, done, cancelled, or postponed). When I need something to do, I look at +the list and pick something. That way I know what I need to do, and I can look +back on previous days to see when I did something in case it ever comes up. + +Each night, I've also been trying to summarize what happened during the day +below the task list, including my feelings throughout the day. This helps to +drain all that stress out of me before I sleep, and anecdotally I think it's +helped a lot. + +That's all for this semester, see you after the summer! + +[dns-plotter]: https://git.carathe.dev/muirrum/dns-plotter +[glitch-campmaster]: https://glitchbot.net/campmaster -- cgit v1.2.3