Posts tagged “coding”

Living in California means perpetually ignoring perfect weather to write code indoors. The sunshine becomes background noise you stop noticing.

My blogger code: B9 d+ t++ k- s u f- i-- o x+ e+ l- c--

I've started calculating RGB hex codes in my head, branching into pastels and secondary colours without looking anything up. I'm worried about what useful knowledge got displaced to make room for the ability to count in base 16.

Longfellow on architecture helped me articulate why I prefer coding to consultancy. Powerpoint is painting on the roof; the code is the cathedral.

Sometimes I step back and think: I'm literally making my brain run in a machine. Five terminals, 24 emacs buffers, four languages, and it all works. Coding is weird and wonderful and I love it. Am I alone in occasionally thinking "wow, this is so cool"?

I'm writing Perl again after a long absence, and it's going about as well as expected: forgetting syntax, hunting phantom bugs that turn out to be typos, and getting caught by my boss with a commented-out critical line. Pure entertainment.