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share some unfiltered, semi-structured thoughts on.</p>
<h3>Racket, 80x86, and even more C</h3>
<h4>Racket</h4>
- <p><a target="_blank" href="https://racket-lang.org">Racket</a> is a
- general-purpose lisp-like language. I had began messing around in it with
- the intention of creating a similar language to <a target="_blank" href=
- "https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/">Scribble</a> a document
- authoring language written in Racket. I made <a target="_blank" href=
- "https://xkcd.com/1205/">the classic mistake</a> of trying to create a
- productivity tool rather than just do the task I had originally intended
- to do. It was interesting messing around in a lisp/functional language
- which I haven&#39;t really used in a long time. I wish I had more
- insightful things to say about it or project to share. Either way its
- very worth the look.</p>
+ <p><a target="_blank"
+ href="https://racket-lang.org">Racket</a> is a general-purpose
+ lisp-like language. I had began messing around in it with the
+ intention of creating a similar language to <a target="_blank"
+ href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/">Scribble</a> a document
+ authoring language written in Racket. I made <a target="_blank"
+ href="https://xkcd.com/1205/">the classic mistake</a> of trying to
+ create a productivity tool rather than just do the task I had
+ originally intended to do. It was interesting messing around in a
+ lisp/functional language which I haven&#39;t really used in a long
+ time. I wish I had more insightful things to say about it or project
+ to share. Either way its very worth the look.</p>
<h4>6502 -&gt; 80x86 -&gt; Commander X16</h4>
<p>I wanted to play around with writing some assembly language programs.
I looked back at the NES tutorials and tried writing some basic
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dug into. I made some decent progress in, relative to my 6502 learning.
But this was in the summer, and I was preparing for what would turn into
a pretty time consuming move. After my move, my puppy, and some youtube,
- <a target="_blank" href="http://www.the8bitguy.com">The 8-Bit Guy</a>
- made a video about his 8 Bit computer project <a target="_blank" href=
- "http://www.commanderx16.com/X16/Ready.html">Commander X16</a> which I
- started looking into. Like all the other assembly language projects they
- never amounted to more than a few print statements or colors on the
- screen. But X16 is something I am going to keep an eye on in 2020.<br>
- <a target="_blank" href="https://eater.net/">Ben Eater</a> also started a
- <a target="_blank" href="https://eater.net/6502">6502 video series</a>
- which was amazing, and thankfully my learnings from earlier in the year
- made the content very understandable. In summary, I spent a lot of 2019
- reading and watching a lot of content about assembly language
- programming, but never really did anything with it.</p>
+ <a target="_blank"
+ href="http://www.the8bitguy.com">The 8-Bit Guy</a> made a video about
+ his 8 Bit computer project <a target="_blank"
+ href="http://www.commanderx16.com/X16/Ready.html">Commander X16</a>
+ which I started looking into. Like all the other assembly language
+ projects they never amounted to more than a few print statements or
+ colors on the screen. But X16 is something I am going to keep an eye
+ on in 2020.<br>
+ <a target="_blank"
+ href="https://eater.net/">Ben Eater</a> also started a <a target=
+ "_blank"
+ href="https://eater.net/6502">6502 video series</a> which was amazing,
+ and thankfully my learnings from earlier in the year made the content
+ very understandable. In summary, I spent a lot of 2019 reading and
+ watching a lot of content about assembly language programming, but
+ never really did anything with it.</p>
<h4>Never ending C</h4>
<p>Without much to really say on the topic, I kept writing small programs
in C throughout the year. I spent a lot of time debugging and
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project &quot;Tyur&quot;. This project spawned out of sci-fi story ideas
that, of course, never went anywhere (due to my poor dialog writing, and
writing in general) and my interest in language history. I have been
- reading <a target="_blank" href=
- "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1831667.The_Horse_the_Wheel_and_Language">
+ reading <a target="_blank"
+ href=
+ "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1831667.The_Horse_the_Wheel_and_Language">
The Horse the Wheel and Language</a> by David W. Anthony, which goes into
the history around Proto-Indo-European. It can be a bit dense so I had
been reading it on and off, and during the off times also started
- <a target="_blank" href=
- "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635317-the-origins-of-language">The
- Origins of Language: A Slim Guide</a> by James R. Hurford, which tries to
- provide insights on the evolutionary concept of language. Both of these
- provided some fodder for the idea of creating my own <a target="_blank"
- href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language">conlang</a>. My
- conlang is &quot;Tyur&quot; the language spoken by the Tyur people. This
- process has really been a mix of world-building around the Tyur and some
- fun fantasy mini story ideas similar to The Lord of the Rings and old
- Warhammer Fantasy worlds. This however began my adventure down the rabbit
- hole of trying to figure out how to create a font so I can write more
- here about it. The documentation on this conlang is a mix of loose-leaf
- folded in my bag that I scribble on when I get an idea. So figuring out a
- proper way of building the alphabet and some root words to start a
- dictionary are my current goals for the remainder of the year/ start of
- 2020.</p>
+ <a target="_blank"
+ href=
+ "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635317-the-origins-of-language">The
+ Origins of Language: A Slim Guide</a> by James R. Hurford, which tries
+ to provide insights on the evolutionary concept of language. Both of
+ these provided some fodder for the idea of creating my own <a target=
+ "_blank"
+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language">conlang</a>.
+ My conlang is &quot;Tyur&quot; the language spoken by the Tyur people.
+ This process has really been a mix of world-building around the Tyur
+ and some fun fantasy mini story ideas similar to The Lord of the Rings
+ and old Warhammer Fantasy worlds. This however began my adventure down
+ the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how to create a font so I can
+ write more here about it. The documentation on this conlang is a mix
+ of loose-leaf folded in my bag that I scribble on when I get an idea.
+ So figuring out a proper way of building the alphabet and some root
+ words to start a dictionary are my current goals for the remainder of
+ the year/ start of 2020.</p>
<h3>Closing</h3>
<p>In closing, I think despite not writing much here, I messed around
with some interesting languages this year, and hope I can hobby more in