0x2142 | Networking Nonsense

Kudos to the Valve team. Steam Deck arrived today, and I was able to disassemble & swap the drive in ~10 minutes. Couldn't have been easier - and I wish more electronics were built like this.

On to re-imaging & hopefully it will be ready to use before long!

Reminded again today that I appreciate how ridiculously simple Wireguard is to set up & use. Set up a site-to-site VPN in only a few minutes, and it just works.

✅ Steam deck ordered.

Opted for the 64GB eMMC version & picked up a 1TB NVMe to replace the internal storage. When all is done, I'll have a 1TB console for less than the regular price of the 256GB model 🎉

Oh this is dangerous... Steam Deck is finally on sale, 10% off for the next week - and I get paid tomorrow.

Very tempted to pick up the 64GB eMMC model & just swap the drive 🤔

Oh hey! Would you look at that! Finally IPv6 support for my MG21 starting with the 3.1 beta firmware 🎉

I love companies that allow you to choose whatever OS works better for you - but it certainly brings challenges when you're the only Windows user on your whole team 😅

Currently trying to find a decent video editing tool that's cross platform. Asked to demo my editing workflow, but the primary tool I use is Windows only. Most of the cross-platform alternatives I've found so far have been much more complicated to use as well, which isn't ideal.

There is a very satisfying feeling with taking a 150+ line Python script someone wrote & re-writing it to be under 25 lines. The real awesome part is when the optimized version turns out to be much more readable than the original.

One thing I value a lot about working remotely - it's easier to manage time. Specifically this morning, I'm thinking about how often I used to have people walk up to my desk & I would have to stop working to address what they needed - then try to figure out where I left off. The constant stop/start often meant that it could be difficult to give some work the focus it needed.

These days, it's much easier to see a message from someone - but consciously choose not to look at it for a few minutes. Instead, I can wait until I reach a good stopping point for the work I'm doing. It's usually not a long delay, but it still makes a big difference.

It's very interesting to me, going back and forth between Python & Go, how much you start to understand each a little better and appreciate different things.

I never spent much time looking at Python type hints before, because I didn't think too hard about it & wasn't sure why I needed them. But after writing quite a handful of Golang, I've come to really appreciate adding type hints to more stuff in Python.

Similarly, I'm starting to find use cases for incorporating pydantic models into things - because I can use them similar to a struct in Go & enforce what types can be used.

In other news, I discovered csv.DictReader() in Python today & I've clearly been missing out. Finding this makes parsing through CSV files so much simpler - and I'm quite amazed at how fast it chewed through a ~500,000 line file