On keeping a lab notebook after ten years
The habits that stuck were the boring ones. Dated entries, no tags, one file per week. Everything else turned into ceremony and got dropped within a month.
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A small rewrite in the evenings
Spent a few quiet weeks porting an old side project from Python to Go. The surprise wasn't the speed — it was realizing how much of my original code existed only to compensate for my own earlier mistakes.
Backup drills, finally
I've had backups for years. I never actually restored from one until last month, which turned out to be exactly the wrong time to find out half of them were unreadable.