The other day I decided to try and update all the things on my laptop. Let’s just say it was some fun.

I say that because I am running Ubuntu on my laptop. I changed it so it is always running the latest version. Even for latest releases. When the laptop was running Bionic Beaver I ran the updates and forgot about that so things changed to use Cosmic Cuttlefish and a few of the things broke along the way .

The one that did was Docker. I installed, removed, installed, removed, and nearly gave up. I read a lot and just walked away for a day. Came back to it and read a few other things and was back up and running.

Always a good feeling when you can get things back to working condition after not having paid attention to what you did.

Now granted that was on one of the laptops I have. The other is a Mac Book Pro and I went ahead and updated to the latest OS. Part of me wants to just start over on that one and remove everything so I can install everything from scratch. It will require a lot of time but I know it will be a bit more manageable. And I know it will clear up quite a bit of space as well since I know I haven’t used some things on there and most likely won’t.

Learning other things

It is no surprise to some that I like to read. One of the things I started recently was reading about Python. I want to learn to program in the language because I feel like I need to do this.

For the longest time I wanted to get more into web development. Python is just another tool I want to familiarize myself with. Ruby is another. I understand some of it because I took one small crash course a few years back but that doesn’t mean I’m an expert in it.

Languages fascinate me. Programming languages even more so. Part of that reason is because I like to solve little puzzles, those little mysteries that can happen. That began when I first encountered an error many, many years ago on Windows 95. I wanted to know what it meant. To this day I don’t think I ever figured out why it would crash at a certain point.

Oh well, that’s in the past now.

This year will be full of many readings. Hopefully I can find the time to share a lot of that here.