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Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site by passerine on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:17PM (#30938658)
I'm a Philosophy student, and I keep a blog where I post essays on Philosophy and Computer Science- as well as the fun that results in their intersection.

https://shen.hong.io/

Lately, I've been playing around with the NixOS operating system, and I wrote a guide on Building a Philosophy Workstation with NixOS. In it, I document the process of setting up a computer for the use and practice of Philosophy:

https://shen.hong.io/nixos-for-philosophy-installing-firefox...

Although I wrote the guide with Philosophy students in mind, it has a surprising amount of overlap with software development and programming-- which will make it useful for Computer Science students as well.

For an example of a more straightforward work on philosophy, I wrote a dialogue on the metaphysics of being, using an analogy with chess and cryptography:

https://shen.hong.io/dialogue-on-the-questions-of-being/

Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site by andrewzah on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:45PM (#30940051)
Really nice site. It (and this thread in general) is motivating me to start writing again.

I used LaTeX a lot in college, and I use a similar program now called Lilypond which is the same idea but for sheet music.

Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site by passerine on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:58AM (#30941088)
Thank you! I'm glad that my work was useful to you. I'm familiar with Lilypond, I've used it in the past to typeset musical notation, which I later exported for use in LaTeX as well.