These Weekly Notes took their time. I'm not going to make excuses - I didn't feel like writing on Sunday and decided to leave it for Monday. I didn't feel like writing on Monday, so I decided to leave it for today. So… 🙂

I had a two doctor's appointments in the week - pulling stitches on Monday and (finally) a psych appointment on Thursday to do something about my anxiety. I mean - the pills I've been on seem to be working, but it doesn't fix the issue, and that's what I need to get to. So far, it's been a bit of a getting to know each other, so we'll see what the next session brings.

Otherwise, as I started working on a game for Godot Wild Jam last week, I stopped this week. Two things are to blame - firstly, my brother came up with some other automations he wanted to do, and they ate up quite a bit of my time. And the main thing was that I wasn't really good at it. 😅 Like - I got a lot of knowledge from that, but when I found out on Wednesday that I'm still at the beginning, and what I'm doing in the end doesn't even entertain me, so I quit. But I learned some stuff, and I guess that's the main thing.

Otherwise, I watched another part of the CS50 course in my spare time. I still have to finish my homework. 😅

Intriguing

I came across the article 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.. Interesting article, worth reading in itself, but not the main point.

In the article, among other things, the author mentions his book Pro Git. I remembered that I wanted to look at it once, and since I know it was published in Czech translation by cz.nic(🇨🇿), I went straight to see if it was still available for download on the cz.nic website. It is.

But that's not all. While browsing the cz.nic web, I couldn't help noticing Martin Malý's new book, ESP32 prakticky(🇨🇿). I've seen ESP32 everywhere lately, but I've never paid much attention to it because electrical engineering is beyond me. The last time I almost flunked it was twenty years ago in the high school, and I haven't really been interested in it since. It was all the more surprising when the thought "what about giving it another chance?" flashed through my mind, and I clicked through to Martin's other book, Hradla, volty, jednočipy(🇨🇿), about basics of electrical engeneering and microcontrollers, also published by cz.nic. Soon the book was on my iPad and I started reading it in the evening.

For a technical book, it's really simple, clear and funny. So far, I understand it (more or less) without any major problems, but most importantly - it made me think to really try it all out. Especially at the mention of Arduino. I know that Arduino exists, of course, but I never really thought of getting one - making things as such was really beyond me. But now I'm truly starting to be tempted. I spent a couple of hours (😅) watching videos about Arduino, tried to wire a few things virtually in TinkerCad, and it turned out that my own first Arduino is on its way. And with it, both of the books mentioned above - e-books are fine, but for some reason unknown to me, I want to have this one physically.

I originally (of course) wanted the original Arduino in the form of a Starter Set, but I was a bit put off by the price. After all, it's something I want to try out, and to have a set for almost 3000 CZK just sitting in a drawer in case I wasn't interested didn't appeal to me. Fortunately, there are alternatives, and I reached for a significantly cheaper set from LaskaKit.

So much for what one innocent article about the history of Git can do. 😁 And let's see, maybe articles about making things will start appearing here in addition to the Weekly Notes.

Reading

  • Jesse Schell: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (3rd Edition)
  • Tracy Fullerton: Game Design Workshop
  • Martin Malý: Hradla, volty, jednočipy (🇨🇿)

Watching

  • we finished the first season of Star Wars: Andor (and are looking forward to the next one) + the short series Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi and Star Wars: Tales of the Empire.