Weeknotes 8/21

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Threw my pole party - my pole fell with Daniel on it!!

I had my pole warming party that I planned last week.

I put up lots of pole safety and pole damage prevention signs. I also made a site where people digitally sign a waiver.

All that went out the window. I sensed that people didn’t want to listen to safety instructions. So I focused on instructing people how to avoid scratching my pole. At least if they don’t care about safety, I will protect my pole. Prior to the party, I also had several nightmares about people scratching my pole, including a horrific dream of the movie “Mother” where I was Jennifer Lawrence and the pole was the baby.

It turns out bad safety is also bad for my pole! Daniel Morris spun very hard on the pole and we didn’t do a proper check of the pole first. The pole fell with him on it. He could have been hurt, but luckily he fell in a good spot and was ok.

I also realized I should have warned people better, even if they didn’t want to hear it. I don’t think people realized how dangerous pole can be. I knew the pole can fall. I knew inversions can lead to serious injuries. People probably just didn’t know or think about it so they didn’t understand the importance of the safety instructions.

Feeling tendon pain from pole and not exercising much

Speaking of the dangers of pole, I have developed some sort of tendon pain. Tendons apparently don’t repair as fast as muscle. I really don’t want to develop some sort of long-term tendon issue like tennis elbow that can keep me from exercising long term. So I’m trying to really take a good break from pole tricks while I read up on tendon health.

Without poling, and without much upper-body work, my workouts have been lacking.

Used SpaceJump to track time

I’ve been using SpaceJump to organize my Desktops. Thinking it would be great to track my time on each desktop, I researched how to accomplish that. Turns out SpaceJump has a time tracking feature that I never noticed.

I relegate each activity to its prospective Desktop and track my time. Look how small Scrolling is!

Continued working on ledger

Continued working on my ledger.

I’ve been changing my agentic code-review process

For my ledger, I do a lot of code reviews because the stakes are high. But the agents always find critical issues. I spend all this effort on planning and coding, just to spend even more with the reviews and corrections. The feature never feels final.

So I have a new process.

First of all, I wait to code until the design/plan passes multiple agent reviews. I have a readiness-auditor that gets a first pass. Once it’s green, then a group of design auditors go next and we don’t code until those pass. In between all of those critic agents, I have a scope auditor that makes sure the feature and the review agents’ findings don’t start fixing other problems out of scope.

The exact process isn’t important. The point is that for very complex systems, it saves time and tokens to catch issues early before moving on to a larger reviewer. I don’t want to run all 13 of my agent reviews on totally unreviewed code. First I catch obvious problems in the design with a small critic agent, then I catch less obvious problems with my robust agents, and so forth.

Daniel came over to do dance improv

Well, it seems like Daniel is ok, since he came over again to dance.

I like that Daniel enjoys intellectualized and organized hangouts. And he’s focused.

Sometimes I invite people over for a specific activity and we end up not doing it. Which is also ok, as long as everyone had a good time. But it’s rare to find someone like Daniel.

Shlomo even made a comment when we were doing our mini improv class like, “I thought you two were just going to have fun. I didn’t realize you were doing a thing.” And I was like this IS having fun! Sometimes what people call having fun, to me, is “having boring”.

We want to do more dance improv.

I tried to repair my air fryer

I almost did it. I got to the broken part, which I correctly diagnosed: the heat fuse blew. I was able to find the heat fuse and test it with a multimeter.

I abandoned ship because the tutorial I was following said I could use solder and electrical tape for this project, and I later disagreed with that.

Here’s the tutorial.

My comment on the YouTube video

I got all the way to the fuse even after my inside was a bit different.

But after more research I don’t think it’s a great idea to use solder. I think you need to crimp- both so that you don’t accidentally break your fuse with heat during soldering and so the solder doesn’t melt in the oven.

And then I don’t think you can use electrical tape or regular heat shrink because it’s not rated for high temps and they could melt as well. You probably need to buy extra fiber glass wire sleeving.

So after realizing I had to buy a bunch of crimps, a crimper, and a wire sleeve in addition to the fuses, I decided to buy a new Gourmia for $60 instead. You win Gourmia!

For those that are still attempting this here’s the fuse info:

My Gourmia: GAF698

My fuse: Original: AUPO BF184-I Cutoff temperature: 184°C Current: 16A Voltage: 125VAC Type: One-time axial thermal cutoff

This pack of fuses I believe is compatible even though it’s 250VAC: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DWW1F6GY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1ONKEOQN4IWXR&psc=1

I wanted to repair the air fryer to be less wasteful. Additionally, I like improving my handyman skills. Lack of tools is always my limiting factor. If I run into needing a crimper again, I suppose then I will get that crimper.

Had two walking meetings

Unless I need my computer, it’s nice to walk and talk instead of sit. I get my steps and get to be outside. I’m going to try to do more of these.

Watched beginner vs oscar winning actors

This was a great format for learning about acting.

But I’d like to see creative topics in this format too, not just performance, like song writing and comedy. It would need a tweak since you can’t have several comedians perform the exact same routine: maybe the creator could have professionals redo beginners’ work. I saw one video like this for composing.