During a recent surf, I chanced upon this beast.
Thinking about compiling more such landmarks – an itinerary for fellow cyber pilgrims
Reviewing older codebases is an underrated exercise for software engineers
It’s a journey through the evolution of code, revealing the engineering decisions that moulded what we deal with today
Tracing the history of a project – understanding what worked, what didn’t, and how technical components evolved – has been a joy lately
Fabric1 is a collection of crowd-sourced prompts, exposed via a CLI tool. I used it for a while some time ago but never fully exploited it because I prefer Emacs.
Eshell buffers are an option, but I am principled in my tool usage and prefer to delegate longer-running CLI tasks to a combination of Alacritty and Tmux.
Maintaining my Emacs shell usage to ephemeral popups feels natural.
Gptel2 is a versatile LLM client that integrates smoothly into my workflow (buffer/text manipulation and management) without disrupting my thought flow.
check out what an IKN0x means here
Understanding different languages can open up one’s mind towards different cultures.
The evolution of languages over centuries and common ancestors there-of over millenia indicates the evolution of cultural complexity.
I grew up actively conversing in 4 languages: English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujrati. French was my first romance language I was exposed to for over 8 years (I say exposed as was learning this academically as a third language and didn’t use this as a “natural” language as much as the others).
