Jules Random Blogging

I've been off work sick for over two years and often still feeling pretty unwell, low energy and my brain not functioning properly. I've started a few things, but the gaps when my intellect or motivation evaporates has made it tough to keep things moving and I have little to show for my time. The biggest investment I've made has been in working through a ML course ( Fast AI ) which is a pretty good top down style learn by doing tutorial. Unfortunately each gap forced me to restart and I've only made it to lesson 3 (a few times). I have a vast list of other things I theoretically want to do, for example, figuring out how to run Liminal  RPG, and I've spent some time making lists which always fills some time. Recently I started thinking about making a proper effort to learn Unreal, and someone observed that I needed to decide what I wanted to achieve first, and I realised "learn Unreal coz it will be useful" did not cut it. And that led me to thinking about ...

There's a small set of tools that I install on pretty much every Windows machine I have access to and top of that list is Everything . It's incredibly fast and complete windows file search. When you run it the first time it builds a database of every file on your system, including some somewhat hidden system files, such as the ones used to store your recycle bin. It tucks itself away in the system tray and consumes no resources, but when you want to find a file it's there and instant. If you need advanced filters it has a pretty comprehensive wild card system. I can't work without it.