Review Writing February 2023
My Self-Review 202302202224 Keunwoo’s review 202302202251 Junyi’s review 202302202252 Alex’s review 202302202305 Jorge’s review 202302202306 Daniel’s review 202302202307 — uid: 202302171152 tags: #airtable #self-reflection
Virtual File System
This came up in the context of a meeting with keunwoo. He was talking about some file that was taking up a lot of memory, some system file that I don’t quite remember.
A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstract layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow client applications to access different types of concrete file systems in a uniform way. A VFS can, for example, be used to access local and network storage devices transparently without the client application noticing the difference. It can be used to bridge the differences in Windows, classic Mac OS/macOS and Unix filesystems, so that applications can access files on local file systems of those types without having to know what type of file system they are accessing.
uid: 202302141343 tags: #software-engineering #knowledge #airtable
Japan itinerary
14two days in tokyo in the beginning two days in kyoto proper one day in Nara
14 - tokyo (flight arrives at 2:30 pm)
15 - tokyo
16 - check out of airbnb. Spend the day in Tokyo. At night, bullet train to hakone (1.5 hours). Check in to ryokan. **need to figure out luggage for this day**
17 - spend the day in hakone. bullet train at night to Kyoto. Hopefully we can leave our luggage at the ryokan? **need to figure out luggage for this day**
18 - spend the whole day in Kyoto
19 - nara - leave during day, back to kyoto
20 - kyoto in the day, bullet train to Tokyo at night. (Diddle around at night)
21 - tokyo
22 - tokyo
23 - flight at 4pmCreated from: Japan Travel Planning 202212061657
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02-09-2023
I realized that I haven’t really been productive (truly productive) work-wise in a month, and I’m trying to understand why. I think a lack of a system (along the lines of “Why You Need Systems, Not Goals” 202210042101) is definitely biting me in the butt right now. I’ve felt a distinct lack of discipline, and since I don’t have any systems to fall back on, I’m just letting things slip. I then need to think about what kind of systems I actually even want. 202302090107
uid: 202302090801 tags: #journal
Live shards helper modification
Ideas for splitting up the PRs:
- Remove REPLICA_FALLBACK ShardAssignmentsRolloutType PR.
- One PR that removes the shard lookup kind abstraction and adds the new abstractions.
- One PR that converts all existing applicationShardAssignmentDbTableAccessor callsites to the new (resilient) accessor.
Created from: Journal entry: 02-06-23 202302060801
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Giving Your Brain The Ability To Do Something Makes Your Brain Think In Ways It Hasn’t Before
Some examples:
- Airtable doesn’t have good search built in, so users don’t even think about making ad-hoc queries
uid: 202301292246 tags: #inbox #incomplete