W8: heavy study and FOSS
Most notably, I've fixed two more bugs in avogadrolibs, and I've contacted the Debain and Ubuntu maintainer teams to get all three fixes merged in time. Overall, working with the Avogadro 2 codebase feels pretty straightforward; it's basically a full rewrite of the original Avogadro, under the Open Chemistry umbrella.
I'm knees deep into designing the code for my project! I want to make a very extensible base to build on top of, so that involves some careful planning, especially around the data storage paradigm. Storing “data” might not be sufficient, because “data” can only be interpreted in a particular context; “knowledge” could be a more useful philosophy to work with, involving the storage of both data and enough context to understand it by itself.
I've also ordered some tungsten nozzles and ball bearings, and designed some specific stuff, but otherwise not much. I have an exam tomorrow, so I've dedicated the week to studying. I hope it plays out well...
I wish I could have done more this week, but unfortunately there are many times when one can only powerlessly watch and grieve; a feeling I, and any other person in the medical field, are familiar with. And one that might be more widespread these last few days, as violence and despair unfolds right before our eyes, once again, affecting millions of unwilling people for interests way beyond them... Maybe I'm missing the politics involved here, but honestly, doctors should worry about people first, and maybe that's the right mindset in general.