User:C3/T2 assessment

Failures

"objects in mirror are closer than they appear"

-Personal reader -Glossary entries -A backup of my user on cerealbox.

Tools

I have started using a lot of the things that we got introduced to during classes:

1. graphviz - fleshing out the outlines of something I want to make, I never though that after being introduced to flowcharts for so many years I would start using them at xpub.

1. python - scripts! I love scripts

1. bash - scripts!! I <3 scripts, I feel like they're small thoughts that also do something, they don't stop at being just text.

1. linux - I don't know how to sum this up but I have approached linux by doing all kind of things with it, the tools we use in class help a lot, I am also using it on multiple machines, and I use @cerealbox a lot.

There is definitely a pleasure in challenge aspect to it that appeals to me (Riviera gifted me a computer and then challenged me to install archlinux on a LVM the old way, took me two days, painful, but super interersting :) ). But I also think that it is a general space that is better than other things to have, especially in educational spaces.

What am I making, how am I making it and why am I making it?

I like to think that I am preparing to share the stuff I am collecting around. I hope that is the case because otherwise I'm screwed.

Observations

After 2 trimesters at xpub I noticed that:

- I am definitively a learning junkie. Thought it is not always clear to me why something create that brain itch. Anyways, I am generally more comfortable with taking more time on things. Reading a whole book on a topic, doing exercises step by step, making proposals and then trying to do them are some examples to some examples of how I am approaching code. Learning takes time and is all about iterations, so I am walking this journey peacefully for now.

- I like the idea of tools to be excuses to have people come together and do things

- I lurk a lot more. During the breaks we had, I took various dives into the wiki and zulip, at the beginning I was looking for interesting topics from the past, then it became something I usually do when I have some vague idea or when some interesting topics come up during class. It feels weird to say, but one example is the Cookbook, which I forgot of even though it was the first thing I looked at before being admitted into the course.

- As we are constantly exploring alternative tools, I am asking myself one question from time to time: what do I do, how much do I need? Scaling down is something that I am intrigued by, I am also actively trying it...

Keywords

1. distribution
2. sharing-practical-knowledge
3. trouble-shooting
4. trouble-making
5. processes
6. infrastructure
7. space
8. investigation
9. care
10. repair
11. maintainance
12. text
13. linux
14. scripting
15. resize
16. scale