Alchemist @alchemist@mastodon.sdf.org

Okay, already at half of nand2tetris, and implementing everything in Common Lisp. Let's hope I can get the part 2 of VM specification up and running.

Suddenly I feel this urge to step away from all mainstream social media and instant messaging. Let's see if bboard and mailing lists are saner.

After about six months, I finished GEB last week. Now I'm going through nand2tetris, and halfway into Quadrivium. After those I'll pick up SICP and Gödel's Proof respectively (and hopefully not at the same time).

This two-books thing seems to work well when one book is not as deep as the other.

Note to self: always laugh at startup owners who see electron apps for desktop & mobile as "innovation".

2018 was of great use to me. Joined SDF, started hosting my JS-free blog on it. Read about 3/4 of GEB, started some sort of academic research on AI... and now I'm finally going on with nand2tetris (and hopefully returning to SICP as soon as I finish GEB). All of that not counting IRL of course.

Let's hope 2019 is just as joyful and productive 👌

Aaaand one less chapter on nand2tetris, some more to go.

Whew, happy (late) new year.

I might be a little too puritane, but what is the actual point in asking someone to solve your programming college assignment, specially in a computing-related course? You won't understand shit about the other person's code, you won't understand shit about how to write it, and you'll get no fucking new knowledge at all. Holy hell, why can't certain people get that the only way into mastering programming is by practicing?

Wow! mbsync >>>> offlineimap all the way.

I'm finally going full Emacs on my Linux box. Either I'm a full-fledged nerd or a really bad case of "try-hard kid".

I am for sure ranting a lot these days

"Learn Python
Learn web development
Learn Javascript
Learn Java
Learn Angular
Learn React
Learn SQL"

BITCH
LEARN LINUX
LEARN BSD
LEARN OPEN FUCKING GL
LEARN COMMON FUCKING LISP
LEARN FUCKING C (the proper way, not how they teach you at school)
LEARN PLAN 9
LEARN HOW TO GOOGLE YOUR QUESTIONS
LEARN MANPAGES

That is pretty much all you need, the rest is a fucking kid's plastic toy

Node.js stuff running on console is such an abomination in the face of god, holy shit.

Cool news from my Phlog and my Blog:

1. Removed all extra JS from exported posts (org-export) and added syntax highlighting to my SDF page. Next: port the index to Org.

2. New (kind of) post on my phlog: Reflections on a modern Lisp Machine. An old blog post, now in plain text for all its ASCII glory.
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/alchemist/phlog/lispm-001.txt

3. New blog post in Portuguese, talking about operator associativity in C/C++, to help some friends.
http://alchemist.sdf.org/posts/operator-associativity.html

Does anybody know how do I configure SMTP for my SDF e-mail? I'm currently able to fetch mail using offlineimap, but I cannot send using SMTP on Emacs.

I tried every tutorial available that there is, and configured my secret with mkvpm, but my authentication just gets refused...

I can't even begin to express how revigorating it is to solve a problem with NVIDIA and Xorg stuff on Linux.

At the same time, fuck NVIDIA for not supporting Fermi cards anymore.

I've spent so much time on my computer building stuff that I've become way too opinionated to listen to someone saying something I do not agree, e.g. "C is a primitive language". Hope it's not too late to change.