#+SETUPFILE: ../../../template/level-2.org
#+TITLE: What has changed
#+DATE: <2018-02-17 Sat 00:00>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: What has changed for me in the last few years.
#+KEYWORDS: dagbog


A little over a year ago I decided that preventing food waste felt
more important than maintaining my personal veganism. Sometimes, most
of the time, one can give away leftovers, but there comes a point when
time becomes the precious resource. I also think that when folks throw
parties and have special vegan food for the vegans, the best case for
all means everyone eats the vegan food, not just the vegans. A past or
future me will disagree. Let us see how long I keep this
rationalization.

Not everything has taken a step backwards. Especially in 2016, I made
several leaps in reducing what I call my blobberies. Mainly, I deleted
several "social" media accounts, most of which I had not used in a
while. Then I replaced them with some gnusocial accounts.

As a developer, in 2015 I started working on some JavaScript-based
projects for work. Given the hype, I attempted to build them entirely
client side, but soon found the complexity increased greater than the
simplicity gained on the server side. I do not actually dislike
JavaScript per se, but the fact it has different implementations among
the browsers makes it difficult in some cases to program reliably. I
have tried some libraries, though I dislike the resulting code from
the various non-standards. All this to prevent that "flash" that
happens when a page reloads.

My last project at work I managed to develop the entirity without an
IDE, instead using on Emacs. I mainly did this because the systems I
had to log onto prevented me from downloading everything I needed at
once. Even when using Emacs, I had to constantly deleted and
redownload parts of my project. I did that for a year.

I talked to one of my cousins a few months ago about family history. I
have some large personal projects related to family stories, both
non-fiction and fiction. I find it more difficult to focus long enough
to work on these. Though, perhaps I should set small goals. Once every
morning, drink a glass of water, press-ups, sit-ups, and 10 minutes of
writing.

I want to find a way to get involved with software against global
heating or asteroid redirection.
