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For years, various hobbies and past-times have functioned as an internal compass for me.

I’ve almost completely forgotten about keeping my reading list up to date.

Yet another massive loss in music.

This week has been horrible when it has come to death of musicians.

I recently stumbled upon a beautiful quote from Cesar A.

Haven’t updated my “What I Read Between” -series in a while mainly due just being busy in my own life but also due to the fact that I’ve reading and rereading veeery big novels.

As you might’ve seen in my last post, I’ve been without an internet for good some time already.

As some of you might know, I’ve been living in Berlin, Germany for a few years now.

Every once in a while I like to play around with Emacs themes.

Bret Hart saving the day in code review.

This one hurts.

Some months ago I decided to join back to social media in the form of registering to Mastodon.

Haven’t written one of these in couple of months since I’ve mainly spent my time reading various papers - mainly computer science related - and not so much literature, but I finally got back to the saddle so here’s the latest reviews.

In the domain of C++ optimization, we encounter two key players: Return Value Optimization (RVO) and Named Return Value Optimization (NRVO).

So, again, I’ve been in this annoying procrastination rut when it comes to my writing (literature and coding) and reading.

Somebody contacted me and mentioned that there is something off with my RSS feeds, thanks for that.

Have had a small pause on programming and writing due to vacations etc., but fortunately, now I’m back to normal schedule, so I’ll try to get back to it as much as possible!

I just decided to gather all the songs I have included in my posts in the “Now playing” section to one neat page.

I’ve been little bit slacking on the writing aspects of things but also little bit on the side of adding new features to the language as well.

NB: I’ve since decided to quit Mastodon In the digital landscape, social media is an indispensable tool for communication, networking, and content sharing.

So, like I mentioned in a previous post, my hands have been quite full with Baldur’s Gate 3, so I haven’t been able to program too much Sila.

During September I seemed to spend quite a bit of time by reading books about addiction due to personal reasons.

Soo… Baldur’s Gate 3 was finally released after many years in open beta, and I have to be honest, it really made me forget pretty much any other project I had going on and just focus on playing it.

Summer months went by fast when you had lot on your hands.

For the initial implementation of Sila’s parses, I decided to go with the recursive descent route due to its simplicity.

A while ago, I wrote about why would anyone start writing a new programming language.

In the vast and ever-evolving landscape of software development, programming languages play a pivotal role in how developers interact with computers and build applications.

I stumbled upon a fun-sounding challenge from Werner Vogels' blog so I wanted to partake in it personally.

I’ve been a longtime fan of Julie Evans’ writing and recently stumbled upon a great post of her called Some blogging myths which inspired to me write something about the same topic.

Not so long ago, Geoffrey Hinton, another “godfather of AI”, raised his concerns about the future of AI and his own feelings towards it.

Lots of non-fiction for me this month, mainly revolving around attention span.

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation Hinton, 75, said he quit to speak freely about the dangers of AI, and in part regrets his contribution to the field.

cries in corporate… “Difficult” labour laws make it hard for corporations to fire people.

Pretty technical month in my reading this time.

Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18.

Another neat finding in Go’s language server.

Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki, Chris (reread) I read this book when I was in my deep-deep functional programming phase couple of years back.

I needed to write some funky Go code using relatively new Go generics in it, just to quickly notice that my LSP client in Emacs didn’t recognise those like you would expect.

So in recent days, I have stumbled upon some REALLY NICE (at least in my own standards) Emacs tweaks, which I wanted to share with you.

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun dropping some much needed wisdom about ML advancements: Hotter take: ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been available and widely adopted instead of Python.

Recently stumbled upon this great quote about the description of AI: AI is magic.

As some of you may know, I’ve been a practising Buddhist for some time, focusing mainly on the teachings of Early Buddhism and Theravada.

Update: Go decided to go with opt-in telemetry, which at leastpersonally speaking I’m very happy with.

So climbing world seems pretty stoked that Shawn has recently been projecting the infamous Burden of Dreams, 9A/V17, in Finland.

MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars The study found that with a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centres in opera…

Despite not using Twitter, I stumble upon some Twitter threads every once in a while, and I have to read them through.

Some time ago, I decided to start keeping a book list and wanted to start writing some notes about them.

The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately.

Vienna, Austria and Leipzig, Germany representing!

So yesterday, I, at least it seems, successfully migrated to Contabo.