May 3, 2020

I’m glad that I now have access to my own website again so I can freely post as I please again.

Clearly, the world has changed quite a bit in the last few months.

To stay positive, I’ve been re-affirming my Christian faith, so that’s been a focus of mine.

I’ve been reading through the Bible with the help of ‘KJV’, which is a really neat terminal based Bible program: https://github.com/bontibon/kjv

A really cool quote amidst these crazy times that’s pretty inspiring is from The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring from J.R.R. Tolkien.

To give a synopsis, Frodo and Gandalf are discussing the complications involving the ring he received from Bilbo, and the very real possibility that he will be hunted by Sauron for having the ring in the first place.

Here is the quoted conversation from Frodo and Gandalf from the book:

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

With that in mind, time is pretty precious to someone like me with a full time job.

As a result, I’ve used Emacs Org-Mode for my actual job and my own personal life to manage how much time I’ve spent on tasks, and on skills.

It’s really helped me a lot, so I whole-heartedly recommend giving Emacs and Org-Mode a try if you never considered adding “TODO” lists in your daily routine.

Links: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ https://orgmode.org/

Also, I’ve been reading up on possibly growing my own food as well in case I’d like a self-sustainable house later on in my life. That being said, homesteading looks like a cool hobby on the side.

To stay positive amidst these times, I have re-vamped my current Linux computer setups, and have re-done several of my computers to try out a few things.

I am currently running Debian minimal installation on both computers, and have been trying out Arch Linux along with Steam to get some games working without ever needing Windows 10.

Pretty sweet so far, and am loving it.

I learned a lot, but let’s just say the Arch install was pretty dang hard.

And to say the least, I totally wiped out my one hard-drive by accident as a result. Let’s just say that even if you accidentally delete a harddrive’s partition, doesn’t mean you should use the “dd” command to wipe the harddrive afterwards since you can easily just re-create the partitions afterwards.

I learned this lesson the hard way.

I plan on picking another Linux distro to run on the same drive but with purely terminal based apps without ever using XOrg.

I also have been trying to get in touch with the “Xiphos” team, which helps maintain this cool bible study program, but haven’t really heard back from them in their mailing list, so I might have to keep searching for open source projects to possibly contribute to.

My current Linux based goals include:

My current programming goals:

My current pet programming projects include:

Overall, I hope everyone is safe, and wish the best. God bless.