6th Week of 2021

Introduction⚑

• New: Simplify the landing page text.

Meta⚑

Wish list⚑

• New: Feature mkdocs-rss-plugin as a solution of publishing mkdocs updates as an RSS.
• New: Add a git issue tracker and markdown formatter.

Coding⚑

Python⚑

GitPython⚑

• New: Introduce the python library.

  GitPython is a python library used to interact with git repositories, high-level like git-porcelain, or low-level like git-plumbing.

  It provides abstractions of git objects for easy access of repository data, and additionally allows you to access the git repository more directly using either a pure python implementation, or the faster, but more resource intensive git command implementation.

  Explain how to:

  • Initialize or load repositories.
  • Make commits.
  • Interact with the history.
  • Test applications that use it.

Python Snippets⚑

• New: Add today's learned python tricks.

  • Get system's timezone and use it in datetime.
  • Capitalize a sentence.
  • Get the last monday datetime.

Issues⚑

• New: Introduce the issue tracking document.

  I haven't found a tool to monitor the context it made me track certain software issues, so I get lost when updates come. Until a tool shows up, I'll use the good old markdown to keep track of them.

Software Architecture⚑

Architecture Decision Record⚑

• New: Update the ADR template with the week learnings.

  • Add the Proposals and Date sections
  • Explain the possible Status states.
  • Add an Ultisnip vim snippet.
  • Explain how I've used it to create mkdocs- newsletter.

Health⚑

Teeth⚑

• Correction: Recommend a regular clean instead of a deep clean.

Activism⚑

• New: Introduce the anonymous feedback tool to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in an organization.

  Anonymous Feedback is a communication tool where people share feedback to teammates or other organizational members while protecting their identities.

  Until the safe space is built where direct feedback is viable, anonymous feedback gives these employees a mechanism to raise their concerns, practice their feedback-giving skills, test the waters, and understand how people perceive their constructive (and sometimes critical) opinions, thus building the needed trust.

Operative Systems⚑

Linux⚑

mkdocs⚑

• New: Explain how to develop your own plugins.

Arts⚑

Writing⚑

• New: Try vim-pencil without success, but love mdnav.

  mdnav opens links to urls or files when pressing enter in normal mode over a markdown link, similar to gx but more powerful. I specially like the ability of following [self referencing link][] links, that allows storing the links at the bottom.

Build your own Digital Garden⚑

• New: Explain how to enable clickable navigation sections in your mkdocs repository.

  oprypin has solved it with the mkdocs-section-index plugin.

Digital Gardens⚑

• New: Introduce the digital garden concept.

  Digital Garden is a method of storing and maintaining knowledge in an maintainable, scalable and searchable way. They are also known as second brains.

Pilates⚑

• New: Introduce the art.

  Pilates is a physical fitness system based on controlled movements putting emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance. The core (or powerhouse), consisting of the muscles of the abdomen, low back, and hips, is thought to be the key to a person's stability.

  Pilates' system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginner to advanced or to any other level, and also in terms of the instructor and practitioner's specific goals and/or limitations. Intensity can be increased over time as the body adapts itself to the exercises.

  You can think of yoga, but without the spiritual aspects.

  Also added:

  • It's principles
  • The swing from table exercise.