2023-10-02

Monday, October 2

Sober October Day 2 mother fuckers 🤙

What a monster of a day this was. I was unbelievably hungry all day - the last time I had a beer was 3 or 4 days ago (I started sober october early) and I was hungry all day. I think that the fact I didn’t have coffee until very late in the afternoon didn’t help my cause. I’m not sure exactly what to put it down to, but I guess I’m dealing with both a sugar addiction (carbs in beer) and a coffee addition.

I was also really tired yesterday and kept falling asleep, including a long stint between ~1pm to 6pm. On top of that I was shitting green sludge until ~2am or something, so maybe I was sick and didn’t realise it, hence the hunger and feeling like garbage.

All of that aside I made some decent progress with Phoenix/Elixir and liveview today. I managed to do a lot of work with the compiled heex templates and am finally starting to grok a lot of the structure of a phoenix app using elixir. There are some annoying things I can’t quite figure out yet - for example how to get the navigation bars to maintain state independently of the main route. There is some stuff I’m missing in the structure and setup of this app, but like all things if you keep working at it eventually you’ll get there.

I had a message from Juan today trying to push this project forward. He made mention of me “taking on a lot of Cristians time” and I feel like he’s trying to offload his financial responsibilities onto me. My gut reaction was to snap back, but I learned from Shahrooz a long time ago to not react, let the initial reaction subside and deal with it when your mind is clear. I’ll sort it out tomorrow.