Friction and constraints are good.
I'm a developer living on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
I genuinely care and enjoy software engineering; I always strive to get better at the craft and push my knowledge' boundaries.
I particulary enjoy self-hosting, emacs, Guix, custom keyboards and programming languages.
Outside of tech, I am an avid outdoor sports enthusiast and practice on a regular basis surfing, kite-surfing, paragliding - and less regulary, skiing.
Latest logs
Adding syntax highlighting to my blog via Haunt and guile-syntax-highlight: challenging!
Challenging, but slowly getting there. There is not other way but to read the source code.
Scheme is starting to click, and reading it is becoming easier everyday. It's growing on me.
Emacs is the gift that keeps on giving
The learning curve of emacs was quite steep; in a way, steeper than (neo)vim. Vim is clearly an editor, whereas emacs is a lisp interpreter with text editing capabilities.
This makes its footprint much larger, making the upfront learning cost higher.
However, it seems to make its reward comparatively higher as emacs and elisp start to click.
I absolutely enjoy it, and rarely open vim these days.
AI;DR: AI; Didn't read
Rick Manelius on reading AI material. Whatever your stance is on generative AI, this is relevant. I totally follow the AI;DR policy.
If it's not worth the time writing, it's not worth the time reading.
Finished reading "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
I will write a short review shortly, but I understand why this often comes as a highly recommended book. It contains a lot of intriguing ideas, and challenge some widely accepted view on humanity.