Writing

Imagine entering the biggest library in the world. You peer down an incredibly long aisle with wooden bookshelves brimming with books. You can see multiple such corridors, all lit with a comfortable warm light. There’s a rich smell of old paper. You can hear some muted voices, perhaps arguing in a whisper. It’s perfect, but vast and difficult to make sense of. Just this day, it doesn’t feel like such a terrible ordeal to just wander for a while, see where your legs take you. Maybe you’ll find something interesting completely by accident? The prospect is both exhilarating and daunting. The library appears endless, it feels like you could potentially find all sorts of exotic and interesting book collections. ...

This is a note to myself about how to prioritize wisely. Or perhaps, it is an effort to commit to text a healthy mindset for myself. I have been trying to get into this mindset over a timeframe of some years now. I am making some progress, but it’s slow and not without setbacks. You can read it if you’d like, but this is my own advice for me. It may not apply to you. ...

I’ve been busy working on a documentation site for eugene, and I think it’s starting to look pretty good. I wanted to write down some of my thoughts around the process so far, and some of the things I’ve learned. It’s just been a few days since I ported my blog to hugo, so since I was already feeling like I was up to speed on that, I decided I’d try using it for the eugene documentation too. I experimented with a few different setups around the hugo-book theme, but it ended up feeling like I was having to configure a bit too much for my taste. I think it looked really nice, but the setup felt a bit janky and complicated, with having the submodules and everything in the eugene repo itself. I think my problem here is just that doing this with hugo would require me to learn more about hugo than I’m ready for right now. ...

I’ve been using pelican for my blog for a while now, and I don’t really have anything negative to say about it. But for a while, I’ve been wanting a more minimal theme. I ended up on the front page of hacker news a couple of times, and the old theme had my face on all the pages, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable. I was looking at some other themes around the web, and I found PaperMod which I absolutely loved. I followed instructions for how to set it up, and it turns out that it only took me an hour or two to get everything up and running. I guess I have to give credit to where credit is due, both Hugo and PaperMod are really well-made, and easy to use. There’s a lot more stuff that Hugo can do, but I think I have everything I need set up for now. ...