I’m tired of the CCP basically forcing everyone to join them in playing pretend that Taiwan isn’t a country, and depriving those people of a national identity. I’m also annoyed that most other countries are agreeing to play along when it’s obviously untrue, just so the CCP doesn’t start throwing a fit.

I’m very excited for the future of machine learning right now. I was cynical about it for a short while in mid 2022, since I got the impression that it was all going to be proprietary, privacy-invading online services, but things look like they’re changing.

A future of democratized open-standard and open-source AI sounds like a good one to me!

The line between IDE and text editor is kinda blurry nowadays anyway. I don’t know that much about Geany, but many of the text editors I’ve used were basically full IDEs, except that the IDE features were opt-in.

Currently I use VScodium as my editor, and I’ve been happy with it. I hear a lot of good things about Kate too, and as a KDE user, I feel like I should try it some time. Kate to me looks like the same spirit of text editor as Geany. Maybe if you’re comfortable with that style of editor, give it shot.

The 2 editors that have really been catching my eye lately have been Helix and Lapce. I think it’s really cool that Helix went with a Kakoune style “selection → action” system instead of the normal vim style “action → selection”. I think Lapce is trying to be a similar style of editor to Vscode, with simple IDE features by default, but then an extension sytem to expand that. Maybe an editor like that would be approachable to you. Although unlike Helix, Lapce seems to be less production ready for now, so maybe wait on that.

For now you could of course just try VScode (or VScodium if you’re like me and want open-source software) since that’s a popular one right now.

I’ve been using Hack as my font of choice since probably around 2016 I think. I did a close comparison between the 2 after downloading it, and wow! I think this Intel font might finally replace Hack as my programming font of choice. The font does a great job of making all the common character look distinct from each other. I especially notice the parens and braces having some nice detail. I’ll have to try it out on actual files, but it looks good so far!

For anyone who’s interested in an alternative, check out https://codidact.com . It’s much smaller right now, but it’s open-source and the community is nice.

A suggestion I’ve seen is to add reddit.com to your ublock origin “my filters” page. It works great for me!

I haven’t decided if I’ll actually go through with it, but as a learning experience, I’ve been thinking about making little rewrites of some command line utilities (and maybe some original ones if I get any ideas) that output NestedText, instead of normal unstructured text. NestedText looks like a really cool data format. It’s basically exactly what I wished Yaml was, and the reference implementation is in Python so maybe it could be fun. Plus it’d give me a reason to try out the really cool looking Typer library.