Finally, we arrived at home after our trip back from our vacation. What should have been a 5-hour trip resulted in 13 hours. We started at 6 in the morning and opened the door to our home at around 7 in the evening. Luckily the kids were supportive, and we were able to stay sane.
Props to the Berlin Airport for causing so much trouble. 🫠
26 of #100DaysToOffload
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I’ve found this quote somewhere, sadly I don’t remember where. A small research about this, suggests only a similar quote from Winston’s Churchill: “Perfection is the enemy of progress”. If someone knows, where this is coming from, please let me know.
I wanted to write about this topic for a while now, so this post title was written with an empty body and waiting to be completed.
It should have happened much earlier, but I had 2 people I still have followed and were not migrated to other networks. I was mostly interested in their doings and not their views. Sadly, they talked more about their views and not their doings.
I still think too much about stuff, instead of just doing something.
For example writing posts. I have a lot of ideas but something was holding me back. I’ve already completed the #100DaysToOffload one time. And I thought I’ve found a good Flow on writing posts. But there is always room for improvement.
I was silent for a long time now. The same pattern I had last year. I would blame the summer for this, but I think there are multiple factors here. I had plenty of projects going on in the past half year, privately and professionally. And I still have a lot on my plate. But I also want to complete the #100DaysToOffload challenge again.
Since March, I have used Cursor on and off for plenty of tasks. For example, I did a complete Redux to Redux-Toolkit migration for one project, in which I learned a lot. Mostly, for which tasks I should use Cursor and which not. If you start with Cursor, you should use it to implement a bigger feature, to learn all the quirks. It will take time, and I value the time using it for the Redux→RTK migration. And now, I typically use Cursor for smaller tasks. Or just break down the bigger ones and enhance them so they are suited for Cursor.
For a while, I struggled with the right model. The auto mode worked in some way, but I was not perfect. So I tried to explore the models directly and wanted to learn, which I can use for which task. But since Claude released Sonnet 4, I exclusively use this model for everything. It is astonishing how well Sonnet 4 works.
Recently, I have found a good workflow. I collect some Tasks and execute them one by one. And while Cursor/Sonnet 4 is thinking and working, I do some chores in the House. Which is a Win-win for all of us here. 😅
I trust Sonnet 4 so much, that I'm thinking of trying out Claude Code. Which, in theory, fits better into my terminal workflow. Cursor is a fork of VSCode which is too much UI distraction for me. But I appreciate the diff tool, which works good for me. And I never found a good one for the terminal.
21 of #100DaysToOffload
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It’s fascinating how time flies. In my mind, we are some days after celebrating the new year, and now we are almost half done with the current year. 🤯
I don’t do it deliberately, but over the years I used some tools as to-do list without declaring them as such. For example, my open tabs in Firefox on mobile and desktop. Both are basically different to-do lists because I use them on different topics.
As next is my mail client. The inbox is also like a to-do list. Every mail I keep in here needs work. Not immediately, but I should do it every so often.
Messengers are also used as a to-do list. But more of people I should write some day.
My calendar is another one.
And the one I realized that I’m doing this, was Claude. I use the app on my phone and saw that I only kept old conversations, where I think I will later come back to them and continue my research.
On the last weekend, I thought about unifying them into one. I do some agile with my wife in the apple reminders app. We are having once a week after breakfast a short conversation on what we want to accomplish in this week. And then we put the to-dos into a list. We also have one list for each quarter with stuff that, we think, needs to be done in this period. So I already use the reminder's app for family stuff and some small to-dos that don’t fit in my to-do apps above. 😅
While I write all this, I don’t know whether I should unify all in the reminders app or just keep it as it is. Because, if everything is in one app, it could be a bit overwhelming? 🤔
19 of #100DaysToOffload
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Wow, I wrote this post nearly 2 months ago. Why didn't I publish this one?
Currently, I'm on a path to improve the UX a bit by giving more feedback on actions.
Last time I brought a CSV import error to the frontend, which otherwise failed silently and had been a requirement from the start.
The next step is to show a success message after the user imported CSV Data successfully. The difficulty here was, that I didn't want to convert my import component into a client component. So I was unable to use useActionState. My solution now is, that I created a Catch-all Segments route. Now, after a successful import, I can simply redirect to this page and show a success message. Which is not ideal, and I would prefer something like useActionState for server components, but it is what it is.
18 of #100DaysToOffload
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After procrastinating this for far too long, I sat down and did a new setup of Paperless-NGX on my NAS.
For this, I followed the setup guide for docker-compose: https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#docker
This guide requires you to have Container Manager installed on your NAS. Under /volume1 I have created a folder called docker which has another folder called paperless in it. So the path will be /volume1/docker/paperless.
My adjustments to the docker-compose.yml file:
volumes:
- /volume1/docker/paperless/data:/usr/src/paperless/data
- /volume1/docker/paperless/media:/usr/src/paperless/media
- /volume1/docker/paperless/export:/usr/src/paperless/export
- /volume1/docker/paperless/consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume
And a different port: someportnumber:8000.
My changes to the docker-compose.env:
PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE=Europe/Berlin
PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=deu
And the correct IDs for USERMAP_UID= and USERMAP_GID= which you can get from id -u and id -g. The guide will tell you this as well.
The guide uses docker compose ... to run docker-compose, without the dash. Synology uses docker-compose ... with dash, to run it. I was searching, why this was not working on my side. So, this could be one reason. 😅
I've got this error: PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization. Which resulted from an old installation. Because I wanted to a fresh start, I needed to remove the old data and found this command: 🚨 docker-compose down --volumes 🚨 Be careful, this will erase all related data.
Because I'm stupid, I used the wrong timezone and got an error. ValueError: Incorrect timezone setting: Germany/Berlin The correct timezone I needed to set in docker-compose.env was: PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE=Europe/Berlin.
I've used docker-compose because I broke my installation for too often with the Container Manager. And in the end, it's just a UI wrapper which confuses me. So I go with docker-compose, which I'm used in the past for client projects. The setup was straightforward, excluding the errors I had, which were self-made in the end.
17 of #100DaysToOffload
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