Recurse Center Week 3: Tue Jan 16

Attended Zack's SuperCollider workshop on making drones, which was extremely cool.

• Love his teaching approach using annotated code; I think it encourages hands-on learning.
• Spent several hours working through his tutorials and experimenting.

Feeling some pressure to make progress on Synthia, but practicing using my volitional muscles and feeling like it's a good time for a break.

To that end, I did some "finger work": wrote a shell script to automatically generate a markdown file from the contents of the clipboard.

• Overarching goal: trying to reduce friction to publishing on this site. Been meaning to be more active on it!
• Perhaps even more so than yesterday, feeling sort of embarrassed that a bash script is the edge of my abilities.
• I know it was the edge because I had an idea of how to start, and then had to do lots of searching online to fumble my way around bash.
• But I feel accomplished—it never stops being fun just getting something to work, and it actually has been really helpful already!
• And now I'm extra motivated to publish to the site.