what I'm doing now

This Week

Workwise, I am deep in planning for the second half of the year. For recreation I am hoping to learn a bunch from Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland.

Recently

I have been getting a lot of mileage out of using Gemini for research and Claude Sonnet for AI pair programming. Currently a bit of a fan of Aider and aidermacs for my vibe coding needs.

I am test driving git-delta for prettified side-by-side diffs on the git command line.

I am still learning to type again. It turns out that the switch from an ISO layout back to ANSI after 20 odd years is causing me grief. My newlines often get a \ mixed in and tilde is 3 rows higher than expected.

I spent some time avoiding Emacs package bankruptcy. A recent package install broke Magit so I decided it was time to update all installed packages and prune out all the things I no longer use.

I also turned on which-key-mode to help discoverability. I've been using Emacs for decades but there is plenty I have not learned about yet. The gem I learned this week is the C-x 8 e emoji keymap.

When Linux kernel 6.12 was released my small contribution to it meant I had made 100 commits to the project:

git shortlog -sne
 37947  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 14544  David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
 11265  Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
  9304  Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
  8592  Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
   ...
   100  Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
   ...