So I just read an essay by Paul Graham which helps to explain why I can’t get the gusto to work on code all that much. I’ve just felt out of steam most of the summer and have written just about nothing. So instead I’ve been reading a lot. Since I got back from college I’ve read a lot. Here’s a list (in no particular order) of those that I’ve finished:
- Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov
- Disclosure by Michael Crichton
- Sphere by Michael Crichton
- Frankenstein by Marry Shelley
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
- Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes by Bryan Bunch
and those that I am currently reading:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
It does feel good to be back reading again. I only got through 4 or 5 of the 60 I took to college last year. So now I’ll be taking less and reading more so instead of 6%, I hope to be closer to 80% of those I take up. I may write stuff about them in the future.
On the coding side, I’ve cleaned up some stuff in Sigen from fixing Sigmodr to behave better with minimum values of some variables showing descriptive text instead of having -1 be -1, it says “No limit” which is how the engine interprets it where applicable.
I’ve also started to work on the Kross fixes I’ve been wanting for a while in KDE’s playground. Not sure how long it will take with the current schedule I keep. I do have time to work on it today, so that’s where I’ll probably be until everyone else gets back.