So, there was a mandatory phone update. It came with app installers. Of the recommended apps, I only chose The Weather Channel. So, what's with all the other apps? I have no desire at all to use them. So, now I have to delete them all manually. I firmly believe that if an app need to be forced installed, it's not only useless, but also harmful. So, even though I selected The Weather Channel app, I end up deleting that also. Just can't trust anything anymore.
Sometimes, you just have to wonder if there's a limit to human stupidity. I, for one, refuse to buy anything more expensive than retail price.
I was able to type very fast. I keep wondering how I did that because I wasn't able to type this fast on 10fastfingers.com and yet I was able to do it here consistently.
About the only thing that I can think of is that I spent a lot of time beta testing my typing program and that loosens my fingers somewhat. I definitely noticed smoother typing, not as jerky as before.
All things considered, I'm happy to type a consistent 100 WPM. I think I'll finish the Typing Tutorial program. I already had the finger lessons done. It only took a couple hours to do.
And this is the result of the different evaluation method. 100 WPM effective.
Using word based scoring, I typed 10 words wrong.
Using character based scoring, I typed 8 letters wrong. Seems like I typed "R" character wrong 3 times.
Quite a big difference in scoring. I would've scored 91 WPM using word based. Character based yields 100 WPM. Honestly, this is the first time I hit over 100WPM raw. I'm happy with this performance.
Oh, I didn't bother setting the date. So, that's an old date.
Not a bad result going from 77 WPM on Sep 29 to 100 WPM on Nov 18.
The Typing Tutor program is coming along well. I have finished making up 21 lesson plans, and daily practice will come from there. Quotes will need some quotations, like typeracer. Badword is words you mistyped. Custom will be like custom lessons similar to keybr. Retry is basically repeating the practice without it creating new text.
Another improvement is that the timer won't start until you start typing. It is very desirable behavior. I still can't believe that it's possible to be done in bash.
So far so good. I still have to decide in file/directory structure. I will also use some hidden files. Maybe also change the scoring, instead of word based, it'll be character based. That will give me higher scores.
Coding it isn't really that hard. Design, that's hard.
Simple breakfast of Egg, potato, and mashed ground beef. I think I need some veggies. Well, that's what multi vitamin tablets are for.
Eaten right off pan for ease of cleaning.
I am trying to convert pdf files to images, and trying out different resolutions as well as jpg and png formats. Somehow, the jpg format is rendered incorrectly. Not all of them, though. So it looks like the conversion will fail with sophisticated multi layered pages.
I can make do with png format, but this was disappointing.
Looks like a lot of MagPi magazines have faulty pdf format in there. I get a lot of errors when reading them using command line pdf tools.
