Other stuff

Apart from producing another simple game over the past moth I have been doing quite a bit of geek stuff.

I replaced Ubuntu with Bodhi Linux. I admit this was done with some trepidation. It turns out I did not need to worry too much as Bodhi is great. It is a very minimal system by default so you do have to spend a few hours installing the application you use. I installed about 10 things, plus dependencies. The nice things about Bodhi is it uses Enlightenment as its window manager. That means it is fast. My 2 and a bit year old laptop chugged a little on Ubuntu but is really snappy when using Bodhi. I am glad I changed over.

I spent a little while looking at Haskell again. Yes the programmer geek in me was unleashed. The language is great but as always the tooling around means it is not easy for me to use it in the way I want to. For instance there is no clear path to compiling android apps or compiling down to javascript. If there was one of these it would make it a lot more interesting for more.

So I went on to Clojure. Again since I last looked it seems to have improved a fair bit. ClojureScript seems interesting at least and android seems doable but I am unsure on the performance side of things. I am planning on devoting some energy to actually learning it as a fun geek thing to do. This lead me to...

I have ditched vim for emacs. I really like vim but if you are going to do lisp it really has to be in emacs and keeping the key bindings for emacs, Visual Studio, eclipse and vim just is not realistic so vim has to go for now. Plus org-mode is lovely. I am still learning my way around as I had not used it for quite a long time. Yes it has improved over the years as well but it is still the emacs everyone, errr, loves?