92 wpm

 

92 wpm today. Learning how to type does help a lot. I'm getting that much closer to my eventual goal of 100 wpm. It's true what they say. The faster you type, the less mistake you make.

86 wpm

 Looks like I'm getting better at typing. It has been a good ride so far, and yet, I think I can go some more. There are certain words that I'm having trouble with and I think I can benefit from some custom made word list. Overall, though, I'm satisfied with the progress.

455 keystrokes means that I have the potential for 91 wpm, had I have 100% accuracy. Hopefully, that will increase to 100 wpm soon. That's my goal. after that, just work on accuracy until I get 100% every time.

84 wpm

 I finally managed to break the top 10% on this site. I think that the site is biased toward high speed typist, though. I should have broken into top 5% already. There just aren't that many people typing more than 80 wpm. I'm guessing there's too many of these 100+ wpm typists. Not to mention that some people would cheat and use a script-bot to get 200+ wpm.

Still, I'm happy with the speed of my progress so far.

Ben Hardill USB device

 

I was following Ben Hardill's instruction on how to turn Raspberry Pi into USB device. This is a great benefit for me since I can then access Raspberry Pi without having to turn my phone into a hotspot. I'm using Chromebook to do it, by the way. VNC works, but slow. SSH works, but not X mode. If I want to use X mode in SSH, I have to use my Raspberry Pi 4. It works there.

I ran into a problem in writing files to root directory. I cannot access it directly, so I had to do something like "sudo nano /boot/usb" or something like that, instead of cd into /root and go from there. Another problem is that Wifi is non functional as USB device. I don't know enough to fix it. Something about sub network? 

Chromebook is good enough, though. I have VNC and SSH programs, and SSH has "Mount SFTP" option, or some other file sharing method, so I can copy files from one computer to another. I have to VNC into the Raspberry Pi first, though, and put SSH file on there. I do it with "sudo touch /boot/ssh" command. Somehow, the file get erased everytime. I probably will have to add it in startup script somewhere to make it permanent.

But it works. VNC is rather slow and jumpy. SSH works fast, though, and I prefer it for doing some heavy duty coding, although graphical projects isn't good to be done via SSH. So, thank you Ben Hardill for writing up the instruction to turn my Raspberry Pi Zero W into a USB device, suitable to turn my Samsung chromebook into a "real" computer! 

In case, you're wondering: Yes, I'm using Raspberry Pi Zero W as my daily coding computer. 

80 wpm

 

It is rather encouraging that my typing speed went up to 80 wpm. Sure there's plenty of mistakes along the way, but considering that my masximum potential is 88 wpm without mistakes, I'd say that that's a definite improvement.

The idea, of course, is to type up to 100 wpm so that I don't have to slow down while typing what I speak. Time will tell whether or not I will achieve this by the end of the month. Normal speech speed is about 120 wpm, but I talk rather slow. 

Attempts at Journaling

 I have been journaling my life lately. I tried to do it with Bujo, or Bullet Journal. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I do seem to have come up with a workable method based on Project Management principles. 

Unfortunately, I neglected the need to migrate from one book to another. So, I was lost for a while. I tried to solve it by buying thicker journal, the brown one you see in the picture, but I realize that without proper method, it would be just delaying the problem.

As I see it, carrying one thick book is equivalent to carrying two. Therefore, I can migrate from one book to another. I just need to carry two books until the migration process is complete, then it's back to just one book.

I like Leuchtturm better than Moleskine, but I couldn't resist things that are on sale, and so bought bulk journals for cheap. Too bad, they're lined instead of dotted. But it will work well enough.

Lunch Journal #4

 

Cheap personal pizza done quick. It's faster than delivery or frozen:

1. Grease frying pan.

2. Put tortilla in the frying pan.

3. Cook until warm. Flip.

4. Put tomato sauce, cheese, topping. 

5. Cover pan.

6. Cook until desired doneness. 

Enjoy!