Voyaging Mind

What are blogs for if not for the random mumbling of a confused mind. Yep you are in for one of those posts again. I am actually writing this post in Emacs. Yes I usually use Vim but though a series of events I had the urge to mess with Emacs. I like them both but found Emacs to be RSI inducing and have been settled on vim for some time. However I kind of like how Emacs makes the REPL style of programming so easy where with vim I just can't quite get it set up correctly (on windows), honestly I probably just want to play with Emacs again. So I installed Emacs. The first thing I did was to install Evil. Evil is essentially an clone of vim inside Emacs, ok, it does not quite go that far but you do get all the nice functionality you find in the default vim installation. The joke is Evil finally creates a good text editor for the Emacs operating system. So far I have not put much else onto my Emacs install. I customized Evil a bit to get it closer to my vim set up. I think I wi

I am part way though a coding up my next article for voyaging mind  but I will admit progress is pretty slow at the moment. This is why has not been many posts here recently. A couple of things are contributing to this. I am training for a half marathon and have been starting to ramp up the miles I run. This has left me pretty knackered out and just wanting to eat and relax. Over the summer I have also flipped to running in the evening. I really enjoy it and at first it did not eat much time. Now that I am heading out for one and a half hour runs it can be quite late before I actually sit down to code. Factor in Taekwondo training two nights a week and suddenly I don't have much time. Summer time is always a strange as the children are at home meaning the things are a whole lot more fluid in what we do. We are much more likely to head out to the beach or take an evening walk somewhere if they don't have to get up for school. We are now heading into autumn so schools ar