Rediscovering the notebook

I found my old Filofax in a box. A colleague at work recently bought a ReMarkable tablet, which he uses for taking notes. It sparked my old interest in taking notes on paper.

I’ve always had mixed feelings about taking notes on my computer. My current setup is a collection of Markdown files.

There are advantages — I type quickly, I can search, and it’s easy to structure and reorganise things.

Goolge WiFi, the network provider and the decoder.

I have a Google WiFi setup I bought a few years ago. At the time I just plugged it into the box provided to me by the ISP and thought not much more about it. It just worked. As it turns out the network governed by the ISP router could not route to the Google WiFi Mesh. The other direction - from a device in the mesh to a device in the rest of the network routed just fine. I decided to let the Google WiFi Mesh be the only network. I configured the ISP router to be in brige mode, configured the Google WiFi Gateway to use the address range used by the ISP router (192.168.10.x it was originally set to be 192.168.86.x). I even purchased a switch with 8 ports - to be able to plug in everything (Philips Hue, Telldus, Raspbery, Onkyo Receiver, the TV and last but not least the decoder).

Seeking information

One of the best sources for easy to understand information about programming is Baeldung. I was seeking information about reactor - a reactive framework for Java and under the paragraph “Comparison to Java 8 Streams” - “It still might appear that we have someting synonymous to a Java 8 Stram doing collect. Only we don’t” and then the explanation goes on to explain that Java 8 streams are pull whereas the reactive model is a push model, pushing events to the subscriber as they come in.