Xandra van Wijk

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Dunno how many UK games folks are over here, but if anyone's affected by the Creative Assembly or Epic/Mediatonic layoffs nDreams is hiring across all disciplines just now. ndreams.com/careers

So sorry to hear about another wave of massive layoffs in the games industry 😩for anyone who has been effected, Space Ape Games is hiring! spaceapegames.com/careers

Excited to see Spirited Away in London’s biggest West End theatre next year!

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First blog post is up - how to buy a home in London londontechmum.com

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I wish, these are from Aliexpress 🫣

The update 🥰

Vaderland

Such a good tip! They really should put default to show all

If bluesky seems a bit "dead" to you, check in your feed settings that you don't have the minimum likes turned up to see replies.

If you have that on, you're going to be missing the most recent comments that haven't accrued likes yet

A gouache painting, with the various parts of the process to figure out values and composition. Colours were a bit muddy but I'm mostly happy with it.

Got this Epomaker Skyloong SK61 off eBay so now I have 2 cute keyboards 😍

Stock sound was horrible but o rings seems and the new keycaps seem to have improved it quite a bit already. Might invest in new switches at some
point

Did I just accidentally write everything in the alt text? I can’t be bothered to repost 😂 Same for the transformer gif fail 🤷🏻‍♀️

Structured app has been a life saver this week. I felt completely overwhelmed with the million things to do and trying to figure out the new routine. This really helped me focus on 1 thing at a time. Highly recommend (it’s only on iOS for now)

So yeah, might drop the web blog for now and focus on skilling up in deep learning / Python for data science etc. With family and fulltime job I only have a few hours a day to myself to do these things so have to choose wisely

My gripe with web dev is that the tools seem to get outdated at lightning speed. Like the course I was doing was only like 2 years old and so much was undoable because outdated. So if I don’t use this in my day to day, it’s a pain to improve and potentially irrelevant on short term anyway

So now I’m leaning again towards focussing on learning more about Deep Learning. “But what about the side hustle?!” 🫣 Maybe I level up further in Data Science first until I’m closer to “maxing out” my professional tool set, before spending more time on web dev and SEO etc. Short gain vs long gain 🤔

Especially because if coding was the purpose of the blog, the returns feel so minimal because 1 - this would have been so much easier in Wordpress, 2 - the struggle is REAL 😂 Webdev is a whole other thing. I’m getting way more practise on the job now with chatGPT 4.0 as an amazing tutor

An animated gif of Transformer robots assembling in to one giant robot

I want to continue working on my blog and have something for myself, but I can’t help but lose motivation…

Because I went back to work & truly love my job, it consumes all my thoughts 🙃It’s amazing to apply the Python x ChatGPT 4.0 x Probability Theory x Data Analysis combo. It’s coming together

Please Xandra listen to yourself, learning is good - but sometimes you need to learn the easy things first before you try to tackle 5 hard things at the same time

It’s important to get the reps in, don’t try to lift 500kg out of the gate

I wish there was a functionality on iPhone to easily compare pictures side by side

I’ll just use my timeline by posting the work setup again so I can better match the keycaps

Mint, light blue and white key caps colour scheme

Lilac, light blue and white cinnamonroll Sanrio keycaps

Magenta/lilac, light blue and cream and white key caps colour scheme

Dark purple, pink, yellow and white key caps colour scheme with constellation theme

Now which keycaps to get

Just 3 days on the mojo 84 have got me hooked on the mechanical keyboard typing experience - had to get one for the office too 👀

I wonder how many people in ancient history that got exiled managed to live a low key life with their community still 🤔Or just moved somewhere warmer. Was it a blessing in disguise?

Thanks 🫶 It is so hard to find time and motivation at the moment - I think I just need to be patient and trust things will quiet down once we’re settled in routine when baby starts going to nursery next month

Failing utterly on my exercise goals. How on earth did I do it last time?! I feel like all my extra energy is being sucked up by learning to code this time. Though technically there should still be time to just fit in 3 * 30 mins a week. It’s not the logistics it’s the mental power is spent 😩

Yeah I instantly deinstalled after seeing the spammy feed from random IG influencers