Okay, so I missed blogging Day Five. Suffice it to say that I thoroughly took advantage of my last day socializing in the physical Hub.

Fast-forward to today (Monday) - I’ve flown back to Seattle, reintegrated with family life, and now I’m starting to work remotely. This was a harder landing than I expected. I had forgotten how tiring it is to work from home.

Possible causes:

• Lack of the fun people energy that I experienced at the RC hub.
• Parenting takes a physical toll.
• Constant visual reminders of household/admin tasks that haven’t gotten done are wigging me out.
• I’m in my home office, where I’m accustomed to doing my paid employment, and I’m repeating unhelpful behavioral patterns from work.
• The weather in Seattle is just plain demoralizing.

To do: think more closely about which of these factors I can change.

More notes on Rust:

It’s funny to read the Rust book and other sources without knowing any other lower-level programming languages, because everything is written from the perspective of solving the problems of C++ programmers. It just paints such a vivid picture of their anguish in C++ and (one assumes) relief at working in Rust.

• The borrow checker seems like a lot of work to supposedly make my life easier. This is going to take a while to get used to.
• Is one of the reasons Python is so slow that it’s constantly having to allocate and deallocate memory for lists / dynamic arrays?
• I like the “permissions” terminology because it reminds me of my existing mental model of permissions in a filesystem.
• Wait, don’t introduce a new permission (flow), I had just gotten used to the first three!
• Liked the insight that I’ve also worked with memory/references in Python, it’s just mostly abstracted away. I seem to remember occasional issues with .copy() that could be solved by using .deepcopy(), but I rarely had occasion to use these in the first place.
• In Rustlings, it’s extra satisfying that rust-analyzer also gets less angry in the VSCode file explorer panel the more exercises you complete!