{"database": "pelican", "table": "content", "rows": [["ryan", "musings", "## Winter of Learning Retrospective\n\nHave you heard the good word about themes? If you haven't, take a look at this\ngreat video by [CGP Grey on\nThemes](https://youtu.be/NVGuFdX5guE?si=auqXL9SMfYeftcup) and how they can\nwork. For the last couple of years I've been doing yearly themes ... with\nlimited success. This lack of success was entirely due to me not actually\nreviewing the status of my themes until the end of the year ... and by then\nit's too late!\n\nThis last December I decided that I'd do the themes, but this time I'd do\nseasonal set of themes instead of one BIG annual theme.\n\nMy current theme ended yesterday (March 18th) and this time I'm going to\nactually take stock of where I am and how 'well' I did.\n\nSince my theme started on December 21, 2023 which is the Northern Hemisphere\nWinter Solstice, I decided to have a seasonal theme of 'Winter of Learning'\nwith the following things I wanted to learn more about:\n\n  * [Tailscale](https://github.com/ryancheley/til/tree/main/tailscale)\n  * [Docker](https://github.com/ryancheley/til/tree/main/Docker)\n  * Postgres\n  * [CSS](https://github.com/ryancheley/til/tree/main/css)\n  * GitHub Actions\n\nTo help me keep track of this I dusted off my [TIL github\nrepo](https://github.com/ryancheley/til) and started to write down some TILs.\nOver the course of the 88 days of my Seasonal theme I added 28 TILs. I also\nhad 16 other, more personal, TILs that didn't make it into the repo for a\ntotal of 44 TILs. With 88 days that's a 50% hit rate on writing down stuff\nthat I learned.\n\nThis is much better than I thought I had done. I'd been pretty down on myself\nbecause I had meant to write a TIL every night, but I didn't. I over estimated\nthe number of times I **didn't** write a TIL and thought I had done much worse\non it than I had.\n\nNow, just because I wrote a TIL doesn't mean that it was one of the topics\nabove that I had indicated I would WANT to write about, but that's OK! The\npoint of a TIL is to document some stuff that you learned and the topics above\nwere only ever meant to be guides, not directives.\n\nI think the one thing I learned that I'm more proud of is spending a pretty\ngood amount of time one weekend trying to learn Docker better. During one of\n[Jeff Triplett](https://mastodon.social/deck/@webology)'s office hours I had\njoked that Docker scared me. And it was me actually saying it out loud that\ndrove me to sit down and figure some shit out. I even had a [public notes\nissue](https://github.com/ryancheley/public-notes/issues/6) about it!\n\nOverall this Winter of Learning isn't what I thought it would be, but I'm glad\nI did it. I am going to work to try and keep on writing TILs and hopefully\nI'll be able to get in at least 2 per week!\n\nThat being said, it's now time to prepare for my next seasonal theme ... the\nSpring of Transition. My daughter is a Senior in High School and is getting\nready to head off to college. Now seems like a good time to start getting\nready for my wife and I to be empty nesters and so we'll be spending the next\n92 days figuring out how we can do that.\n\n", "2024-03-19", "winter-of-learning", "## Winter of Learning Retrospective\n\nHave you heard the good word about themes? If you haven't, take a look at this\ngreat video by [CGP Grey on\nThemes](https://youtu.be/NVGuFdX5guE?si=auqXL9SMfYeftcup) and how they can\nwork. For the last couple of years I've been doing yearly themes ... with\nlimited success. This lack of success \u2026\n\n", "Winter of Learning", "https://www.ryancheley.com/2024/03/19/winter-of-learning/"]], "columns": ["author", "category", "content", "published_date", "slug", "summary", "title", "url"], "primary_keys": ["slug"], "primary_key_values": ["winter-of-learning"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8081290870904922}