January 2, 2021

Gil's December 2020

This month I...

• Decided to change the format of the newsletter, I wasn't sending the weekly newsletter as regularly as before, so I'll try sending it monthly, hopefully with more useful information.
• Started working on my own emacs config without doom for fun, it's still not even close to ready, but I'm taking my time and learning it on my way.
• Bought and played a lot of Cyberpunk 2077, it has some flaws, but runs pretty well on my PC.
• Did a retrospective of 2020 using the template from Pat Kua and I enjoyed it, it does take some time, but I think it's useful to reflect and set some goals ahead.
• Set up a Surface Go 2 with Linux with some success (I need to re-install it because it was just a test and because I didn't format the partition by mistake).

Great URLs

• Some tips on how to use the batteries that emacs comes with to their full potential without plugins, and here's more.
• An [elisp cheatsheet]
• The Microsub protocol, a very interesting protocol for building a reader of articles from the web, I am still learning about this protocol, but it looks very interesting to consolidate my Instapaper + RSS reader into one single open source way of handling things to read later.
• The sudo font looks like a really cool font for coding, it has infinite ligatures which is pretty cool, but I don't think I'll be switching to it because I'm not used to the shape of the letters being too tall and I like having some cursive, still, pretty cool, I'm using it for my custom emacs config.
• The book clean architectures in Python has a new edition, it's a book you can read on that site for free, from Leonardo Giordani, who is one of the people I always love seeing in Python conferences, because he's one of the few that talk about this subject in the Python community. A must read for Python devs who care about architecture/big picture code.

Happy 2021,

Gil