While taking my online course SQL for Data Science on Coursera, I really under estimated that the exams would be quite long with alot of queries. It was pretty painful to get my head thinking about how to write them and I was getting pretty impatient.

However, writing these queries is getting me excited when I eventually learn how to write in Go and be able to connect my app with the database.

Another thing I cant wait to do is to learn how to write HTMX.Eventually i want to write Go and HTMX and SQLite for all the things.

Finally, when I sat down to finally study SQL, I went down a rabbit hole and watched videos from the Primagine and wanted to re-learn how to draw ASCII art with a tool called Boxes.

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| "Pursue making how you feel  |
| align with reality           |
| as opposed to                |
| letting reality              |
| be aligned to how you feel." |
| -ThePrimeagen                |
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I knew I had installed a application called Boxes that would draw out artwork for text, but I didnt know how to put it in Neovim. So I Googled around and eventually stumbled accross instructions wich were complete, but not workable if you already had text in a file. I finally figured it out after re-reading and thinking a bit outside the box:

  1. Install the app Boxes on your Linux computer
  2. Open vim or neovim
  3. write out your text or quote.
  4. Hit esc
  5. Go into command mode and write the line number, example is line 12 where the quote starts: 12!boxes -d stone or if you have multiple lines, visually select with v and then :!boxes -d stone
  6. press enter to get it to print the box out.

So even though I didnt work much on SQL homework… I learned a bit more about Vim and way that can make my markdown notes spark job a bit more.