Work

Emacs is elegant and seductive: it is indeed a really sophisticated way to use your computer and I’ve acquired a lot of preferences and tastes in the way that I work cause of how emacs facilitates them for the user.

However, I’ve been missing the unix philosophy lately, and living in the CLI was a source of a distinct sort of zen for me around half a decade ago.

So, my current workstation Mac is vanilla nvim + tmux + pi coding agent + firefox.
My experimental base is a GUI-less tty only (tmux, vim, w3m, man pages) NixOs Thinkpad.

• I’d always wanted to write production lisp: was dreaming about it since sophomore year of uni (~7 years to that): finally.., we’re here
• going to start work on goose : along the way, chasing that lisp flow/enlightenment I once experienced long ago
• post discussions with some folks, clojure isn’t supposed the vanilla lisp and aspects orthogonal to that mindset await to be grasped
• going for a focused burst of immersion (practical coupled with a literature sweep (blogs, papers, books)) to really get a feel for what’s up
• have been going easy for the past couple of years when it comes to levelling up on my lisp speak because there was always some work I had to get done
• interesting that this is work now, long way..

I’d managed to produce some fairly original essays on my last blog and I’ll soon be incorporating them into posts here. I had a habit of writing in streams in the main blog itself and there is a lot of insight stored in the chronology of some such logs.

The old blog is archived in the repository here and I could benefit from repurposing old works into the present setup.

I’ll mainly be focusing on editing the fluff out, finding what good stylistic knacks I’ve accumulated over the years, and rejecting the questionable habits that don’t serve me so well.