Person/Divine lu Linvega/Interview/Lovers Magazine
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- Interview with Devine Lu Linvega, Frontend Developer at XXIIVV: Lovers Magazine by Spaces
Operating under the Username/neauoire moniker, Devine is a polymath working on a series of experimental tools and applications while sailing around the world and documenting their life at sea
- My typical day begins with my eyes closed, at around 7:00 am
- I then rise, grind coffee. I usually ever only drink one cup per day.
- I immediately set off to complete the task I have eye-closely planned. No email, no chat. I know myself to have 2 hours of undisturbed flow before the distraction surrounding lunch-time pull me away from the screen
- My goal is usually to have done a singular task per day, the daily task is devised in a way that it should take about 3 hours to complete - Across roughly 5 or 6 pomodoro grinds.
- After the last pomodoro, I tend to cook. I try as much as possible to take an hour for lunch to try and exit the state of flow
- The afternoon is spent doing maintenance or superficial work, experiments
- the afternoon is spent reading and learning
- goal is to build a catalog of exciting things to wake up to the next day and to experiment with
- day ends with journaling in which I record the task done, and if any, the lessons learned
- usually go to sleep with a book and a highlighter pen
- currently reading Book/Hermeneutics, I overline the things I want to keep for a later use, or to revisit
- While it is not a public place for anyone to visit, my point is instead to suggest that anyone who's looking for inspiration build a place where they can feel at ease to experiment, show works-in-progress and exchange on art and science in a safe place among like-minded people.
- I think I find a lot of my ideas while cycling. But that's not really a place either.
- Among the ones that have given me vertigo with how good of a design it had, was the "Carrick Bend" knot. It's a simple knot, but it is infinitely pleasing aesthetically. I've recently learned how to make a origami pentagon, and this, also, has blown me away with its elegance and simplicity.
- Among all the apps and games that I have built, Dotgrid would be the one I use the most. But the one I am most proud of is my own website. It has been around for the better part of the last 10 years, and it is now an extension of myself, it's a repository of what I know, and what I am hoping to learn.
- two main challenges of hosting a studio aboard a sailboat are: power, and internet connectivity. We currently power our studio's battery bank with solar panels
- Over time, you begin building around the more power-efficient applications and stay away from software that requires constant internet connectivity.