A break from programming languages
People who have closely followed my work for the past few years have probably noticed that my output has gradually slowed. My last post on this blog was published over four years ago. The last talk I presented was almost two years ago, on work that I had recently finished but had started several years prior.
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time. People who have closely followed my work for the past few years have probably noticed that my output has gradually slowed. My last post on this blog was published over four years ago. The last talk I presented was almost two years ago, on work that I had recently finished but had started several years prior. My enthusiasm for my hobbies has always ebbed and flowed. After spending much of early last year managing a frustrating mixture of mental and physical health problems, it was certainly at an exceptional low. All the same,
related reading
- Things unlearnedscattered-thoughts.net
- The Metaprogrammers Dilemma : r/ProgrammingLanguagesreddit.com
- E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (EWD 340)cs.utexas.edu
- how I think when I think about programming - alice mazalicemaz.com
- Because It's Not Fun Enoughbytecode.news
- The language strangeness budgetsteveklabnik.com
- One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languagesjames-iry.blogspot.com
- The happiest I've ever beennews.ycombinator.com
- 100R - weathering software winter100r.ca
- Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you? | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com
- A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- Loper OS >> The Wisdom of Erik Naggumloper-os.org