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One of the most fun part of climbing is the problem-solving aspect of it. Figuring your way to get up the wall/boulder. Why would you want to get rid of that?

Yes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qZYL5RlgY

While I'm mainly an emacs user, I do enjoy using mg from time to time. Especially nice that it comes with macOS nowadays (used to come with age old emacs version). I could probably do everything in mg, but I just cannot stand the auto indendantion in it when you have 8 spaces of indent and write a newline, the next line gets auto indented with a tab instead of 8 spaces (newline-and-indent assumes tabs are every eight characters..) Sure, this is not an issue if you use only tabs, but most projects just tend to be using spaces. Also, I think in OpenBSD mg there is a flag for enabling/disabling this (IIRC).

Nonetheless, I do like mg!

Cool stuff! I used Push 2 for a long time and I really enjoyed the workflow with it. I decided to sell it since most of my music work shifted to using Logic so didn't have much use for it anymore. Until quite recently, I had this scratching itch to rebuy Push 2 and start playing around with it, just to notice that it's sold out everywhere. I had a feeling that they will release Push 3 quite soon, so great to see it out finally. Maybe I need to start using Ableton again!

Wait… Did we stop reading docs at some point?

It's his history and actions that made him unsuitable for the position. Despite that, they still decided allow him to return to the board. While RMS and FSF have done great things in the past, actions should have consequences and movement shouldn't be tied to one person.

I lost all the respect that I had for FSF when they decided to re-elect Stallman. Would love to see a lot of changes in that foundation.

Love to see alternatives to these big code hosting solutions! Personally I'm donating to sourcehut, mainly in "support your local" -mentality, and definitely recommend people doing the same for your favourite projects . But that being said, for most of my coding, I have a simple self-hosted cgit + gitolite setup that suits my needs exactly! Unfortunately, cannot get completely rid of GitHub due to work and open source necessitites.

This is very cool! Sometime ago I ended up starting a similar project in Common Lisp, but then life happened and it has stayed as WIP for quite a while already... Maybe now I don't need stress about finishing it since this seems quite handy!

A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post, 3 upvotes. Loved it!

I fell into programming. I had been programming since being a wee lad but I never was too keen on studying or school itself. After high school I realized that I couldn't get into the school I wanted, studying psychology in my case, probably could've gotten in there if I would really wanted to, who knows. At that point, I was pretty good at programming and thought that might as well try some computer science stuff. Luckily got into one school, but got a real job on my first year, and the school became secondary for me. I was able to audit lots of stuff so I could finish my Bachelor despite working at the same. After that degree, haven't looked back to schools since and, for some weird reason, I quite enjoy my current software engineering job.

Personally I feel that Scheme (Racket or some other implementation) is in many ways better language compared to e.g. Common Lisp. Simpler and more intuitive (at least IMO) compared to Common Lisp which is in scale of Java or C++ when it comes to the size of the standard/language. This can be of course explained due to the nature of Common Lisp and how its, according to its standard's author, more about politics than art, since when Common Lisp was being planned they needed to accomodate many features from many different Lisps before it. But despite that, when it comes to real-world code, in my own experience, Common Lisp and especially SBCL takes the cake.

Demoscene, especially Amiga

While Common Lisp is my favourite programming language, I didn’t necessarily get the Eureka moment by just programming in it (although I understood quite early how the interactive REPL driven way of programming is superior to any other form of programming) but instead when I started to learn more about lambda calculus. Then it really clicked for me.

Mixture of programming and arts.

I occasionally suffer from bad sleep and wonky sleep schedule. I have tried melatonin and it has helped sometimes but I don't want to rely on something like that for achieving better sleep.

The best results I have achieved when seeking better sleep is good nutrition, not eating too close to bed, and exercise. Simple as that but thankfully I'm otherwise healthy person. On top of that, I every once in a while do yoga nidra if I happen to not be able to sleep with quite good results at least personally.

As an Emacs user, I definitely enjoy always finding new things about it. Thanks to these kinds of discoveries I've been able to make my .emacs.d smaller and smaller in tiny increments due to being able to replace various packages downloaded from ELPA/MELPA with built-in ones.

One great Open Source game that comes to mind is definitely VVVVVV.

- https://thelettervsixtim.es

- https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

The original MapReduce implementation by Jeff Dean and friends is probably up there for me. Couple of hundred lines of code doing bunch of task distribution on a very large scale is just very impressive.

Of course the current/latest version of it has took a life of its own in size and complexity (but of course with performance and reliability too) but the initial version still shines through!

While being definitely more on the hippy-dippy side for some, for me the book that affected me the most was Ram Dass' Be Here Now.