As we all know: Monday is tough

Following this I published the second part about fixed point arithmetic on Habr

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Long pause

Since my last post here all my ‘writing energy’ has been absorbed with deeper articles published on Habr: two of them were mentioned in the channel, another one – not. Though, the latter finally attracted attention not only in terms of discussion but also in terms of likes and views bringing me correspondingly 52 likes (at the current moment) and 6 or so thousand views (the stat may be inaccurate according to the Habr). It’s worth pointing out that the articles and their topics are brainstorming results rather than coming out of working experience. One more article is coming, being finished, and scheduled to be posted in a corporate blog, there are other ideas…

Being a sober man, I realize that everything is more than just questionable in the long run: lack of motivation and everyday life with its duties have killed a multitude of intents scattered across different fields. It brings me to an image gathered from a popular fiction book: a library of never-written books living only in the minds of their authors…

Things are getting more entertaining because a couple of days ago I “put” a book on the library shelf: I was astonished by that because when I deliberately tried to make up at least something vaguely decent for a fiction book – I couldn’t. The plot won’t be given unless it turns into a real written story...

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After all, an article, aforementioned in the previous post, came out, bringing positive but mysterious stats, which consist of many likes, few comments, and a dislike. The latter doesn’t sadden me but raises certain thoughts: if one doesn’t find my job interesting why just don’t skip it, taking into account that I shed light on a deeply technical and specific topic which can’t touch their personal feelings or views. I keep silent about considerable efforts spent on a little or no paid job.

Well, let me quote Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”

In general, it has changed nothing, the plans for future articles remain in the same state as I described them previously.

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I'm still here

A week ago, I was going to write a post in the spirit of “long time no see but…”, it didn’t come true, so this week I’m going to give it another try. However, another thought came to my mind: little by little winter came to my place, currently it’s a true Xmas view in my window as well as in the neighborhood, and, obviously enough, it means that the year is about to finish…isn’t it time to sum the results and make a Happy new year’s resolution?

Regarding the former: a half year ago I began writing content for this channel and for a Russian twin of this channel, a month later I made up my mind to publish it on Habr. Both activities met moderately positive acclaim. At the moment there are 5 technical articles there, and most of them are mentioned in the channel. As a content maker, I realized a simple thing: it takes time and effort, especially the aforementioned articles, no way to write one in a day – in the best case it takes 2-3 days. The task is quite versatile: choosing a good topic, finding sources, writing code, creating illustrations, and last but not least making up a readable and coherent text minding the grammar and the register.

Now we’re getting to the resolution part: in spite of the fact that I do enjoy writing my articles, there is no way to create content of this level on a regular basis. For instance, I was planning on the article about cryptography, I did write the code and read a lot of related math stuff, but it’s already been two months and I can’t start arranging it all together due to a lack of time and energy. Perhaps, our cold weather isn’t the last factor why it’s so but a more major role played by my job and everyday chores. There is one unpleasant observation staying true through the passing years: the closer to the end of the year it is the more tired you are, on top of that even a humble celebration of it makes some fuss itself. The best thing I can do in terms of blogging is to drop an average-sized post once in several weeks.

Perhaps, that’s all that I wanted to say today.

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I broke my promise and kept the channel untouched. It's not a sin, though, and this isn't a confession. Recently, a song from The Hunger Games has come to my mind - I remember its lyrics by heart. The unusual thing is that I've never watched the movie and probably never will because it doesn't seem very appealing , so I don't know how deeply it's intertwined with the storyline, and I don't see much sense in finding out. I'm just struck by the image the song casts, so that I would like to share it.

https://genius.com/Lorde-flicker-kanye-west-rework-lyrics

https://youtu.be/3Bg_bj8pI5c?si=Jdj4D-Dm3kFSbz4r

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