Who is Nick?

Asking all my life.

Author: Nick Kempinski

  • Don’t give what you “need”. Give what’s needed.

    Don’t give what you “need”. Give what’s needed.

    Hello, new-ish/old-ish medium look

    Would you look at that. Medium has rolled out it’s new-ish/old-ish layout. Very reminiscent of classic blog layout. Perfect for the simple, the irreverent, and the unimportant posts like this one.

    But sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. Perhaps we didn’t “need” more. We didn’t “need” fancier. We didn’t “need” crazy layouts. Just scroll and read.

    Consider that when thinking about what you want to say. There’s what you think you “need” to say. What people think they “need” to read. And somewhere in the middle, is the magical, what’s needed.

  • My Personality (2020 Edition)

    The past year has been a tough one. Let’s distract myself for a moment to see how my personality test holds up to last years.

    Your type is: INFP

    “Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

    Introverted (I) 67.74% / Extroverted (E) 32.26%
    Intuitive (N) 82.14% / Sensing (S) 17.86%
    Feeling (F) 73.33% / Thinking (T) 26.67%
    Perceiving (P) 80% / Judging (J) 20%

    Type 1 Orderliness |||||| 30%
    Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||||| 73%
    Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||| 53%
    Type 4 Individuality |||||||||||||||||| 80%
    Type 5 Rationality |||||||||| 33%
    Type 6 Cautiousness |||| 16%
    Type 7 Adventurousness ||||||||||||||| 66%
    Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||| 46%
    Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||| 73%

    Your main type is Type 4

    Your variant stacking is spsxso

    type score type behavior motivation
    4 24 I must be unique/different to survive.
    2 22 I must be helpful and caring to survive.
    9 22 I must maintain peace/calm to survive.
    7 20 I must be fun and entertained to survive.
    3 16 I must be impressive and attractive to survive.

    High level – still INFP Type 4 with the same variant. Lower level – I seemed to have taken some of my rationality and replaced with aggressiveness.
    I think we all are feeling it. That – and my kid is 2. You try and survive that without a little more aggressiveness.

    If you’re curious about yours, this was made using the Jung+Enneagram test.

  • Testing Netlify CMS

    Testing a netlify cms post. There’s a few things I’m still wrapping my head around. But interesting so far.

    Update: Well that was interesting. Did some strange post not found. But after refresh worked. Does it always do that?

    Update 2020-09-08: Never used Netlify for this, so not as interesting as I thought.

  • I knew I liked to do nothing for a reason

  • Belief without a reason

    I have a belief, but my media background can’t explain why you should care.

    I want you to care. If you did it would help explain that feeling of insanity

    Yet,

    I can’t find the words. The reasoning. The nut.

    So instead I write vague posts.

  • Hat’s off to all producers

    Hat’s off to all of those who create.

    I commend all of you who produce something with any form of regularity.

    It’s my weakness.

    You do it through all the excuses.
    Through exhaustion.
    Through nervousness.
    Through repetition.
    Through drinks with friends.
    Through desires to binge watch.
    Through child vomit.
    Through partners to-do’s.
    Through bill payments.
    Through little voices inside your head.
    Through sickness.
    Through happiness.
    Through fear.
    Through success.
    Through confusion.
    Through it all.

    You hit publish.

  • Years and Years – The Storyteller

    I am hooked on Years and Years. If you’re a
    Black Mirror fan, and haven’t already started watching, this should be your next show.

    Spoilers.

    Small spoilers.

    Teeny tiny spoilers.

    The show follows a family over 15 years into the future. Nuff said about that.

    A man meets a woman. They ask what each other does for a living. She is a Storyteller.

    A Storyteller.

    A storyteller as in sitting in a crowd using words. Ever one of those syllables taken
    in by those around.

    A storyteller as in myths, and fables. Lessons woven in metaphors.

    Even the writers of a TV show, are feeling it. Orality.

  • PYODBC face smash

    Just had a hell of a time installing pyodbc on AWS ECS Linux AMI. And since I think I smashed it… here’s what i did.

    First go though everything on this post. An awesome start

    https://datalere.com/tips-guides/ec2-aws-linux-ami-pyodbc/

    However, the challenege I had next

    (env) [ec2-user@ip-172-30-1-231 eurion]$ pip install pyodbc
Collecting pyodbc
Installing collected packages: pyodbc

    Yet, pip freeze still had no pyodbc! FACESMASH!

    So, after running through it 100 more times slightly differently, it occured, let’s go manually, shall we??

    (env) $ cd ~/src
(env) $ curl -O -L https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/archive/4.0.26.tar.gz
(env) $ tar xvzf 4.0.26.tar.gz
(env) $ cd pyodbc-4.0.25
(env) $ python setup.py build
(env) $ python setup.py install

    not there… one more error.

    TEST FAILED: env/lib64/python3.6/dist-packages/ does NOT support .pth files
error: bad install directory or PYTHONPATH

You are attempting to install a package to a directory that is not
on PYTHONPATH and which Python does not read ".pth" files from.  The
installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

    env/lib64/python3.6/dist-packages/

and your PYTHONPATH environment variable currently contains:

    ''

    So I guess I’m setting $PYTHONPATH

    After trying a few try’s, I needed to knwo not just my virtural environment directory but also where my
    site-packages and dist-packages. Which ended up being

    export PYTHONPATH=$PROJROOT/env/:$PROJROOT/env/lib64/python3.6/dist-packages/:$PROJROOT/env/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/

    Any now give python setup.py install a go.

    And we’re good to go.

  • My Personality (2019 Edition)

    Given that the past year has been a big one, it’s time to see how my personality test holds up to last years.

    Your type is: INFP

    “Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

    Introverted (I) 54.29% / Extroverted (E) 45.71%
    Intuitive (N) 86.67% / Sensing (S) 13.33%
    Feeling (F) 64.52% / Thinking (T) 35.48%
    Perceiving (P) 88.89% Judging (J) 11.11%

    Type 1 Orderliness |||||| 23%
    Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||| 60%
    Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||||| 63%
    Type 4 Individuality |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
    Type 5 Rationality |||||||||||| 50%
    Type 6 Cautiousness |||| 13%
    Type 7 Adventurousness ||||||||||||||| 66%
    Type 8 Aggressiveness ||| 20%
    Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||||| 83%

    Your main type is Type 4

    Your variant stacking is spsxso

    type score type behavior motivation
    4 25 I must be unique/different to survive.
    9 25 I must maintain peace/calm to survive.
    7 20 I must be fun and entertained to survive.
    3 19 I must be impressive and attractive to survive.
    2 18 I must be helpful and caring to survive.

    High level – still INFP. Lower level my type has shifted a tad. Probably as priorities and desires have changed with the little man.

    If you’re curious about yours, this was made using the Jung+Enneagram test.

  • Email is awesome

    I tell everyone that email should not be overlooked. And
    here I am, knowing this and doing nothing about it. It’s
    almost done and running. Come on in – sign up.

    [Update: 2020-10-30] – bailing and switching hosting, the self-hosted newsletter is dead. Though, Substack is doing nice things.

    Not that it’s public, nor have I written anything yet, I am tinkering.