06:15 Yesterday I walked down to the beach first thing, just before sunrise. It was a fantastic sunrise, blood orange and intense. I thought to myself, this is on my doorstep yet I never come down to see it. I resolved to correct that.
This morning I got there a little earlier, and was reminded that this is in fact Ontario in the fall by the grey horizon and gradual increase in ambient light. I’m going to keep trying though, because it is healthy to step into the Total Perspective Vortex from time to time.
08:00 I spent some time just now surfing a couple of job sites looking for interesting non-evil work. Aside from avoiding anything which requires “multi-tasking”, and (weirdly) all the oil and energy companies that advertise on climate and eco-related job boards, there are more and more people out there working on “Climate Adaptation”.
I get that this is important, but it smells of VC defining the terms of our species’ survival.
19:50 Today my Lychee Pi 4a arrived, a tiny board full of RISCV goodness. I’m hoping to use it to lower my abstraction level, as a thinking brain. I’ve been writing Clojure for so long now that I feel like I’m a vibes-oriented programmer. It’s time to write imperative code that represents computational reality for a while.
I’ve been dipping into the ISA specs, and am skimming through a neat
free teaching resource book on
riscv-programming.org,
a suitably named site. I do intend to do some ASM programming on it
too, but mostly I want to know how to analyze objdump output so I
can understand compiler decisions and where complexity tipping points
happen.
Here’s to actually following through. Yeah.