Voyaging Mind

A few years back it looked like physical books might be dying out, except for perhaps coffee table style of books. Everything seemed to be moving to digital. Part of me was sad and part was happy. There are obvious advantages to digital books and looking back I think the books I was reading at the time lent themselves to it. I seemed to be on a spree of reading technical books about technologies that were evolving rapidly. The information had a limited lifespan and on the occasion I did buy a physical book a few years on I was throwing the book away. Thankfully I realized this is not the best way to learn, honestly I am not sure why I slipped into the pattern. I know I was busy at work and perhaps reading easy tech books was an escape? My equivalent to pulp fiction seems to be pulp tech books. Once I shifted, back, to books about core principles/understanding rather than "how to" I found myself wanting physical books again.  It could sit at my desk for study and transi

I enjoy using Emacs. It is an editor that I find quite relaxing to use. Yes it takes a bit of setting up. Yes I know about the Emacs "Distributions" but find them a little over the tops for what I want. So eventually I settled on a few customizations involving Evil mode, projectile and a few others. It is nice, not perfect. I tend to use Emacs over Vim as Emacs has OrgMode and a few other niceties. I like the idea my editor can show images. Plus there is Evil mode so you can still have Vim in Emacs But the world moves. Great cross platform support for editors is now a common. Emacs port to windows should be show casing the application instead I suffer from stall and freezes. It has reached the point where if I try to code in Rust, Haskell or C++ in Emacs it is a frustrating experience. Perhaps it is the language server providing me the auto completions. I don't know and honestly I don't want to know. I just want it fast. Now I have not seen these problems on L