Preface

Continuing on the Microsoft journey.

Another interesting program found from API search is Taiga.

The author Eren has a blog: https://erengy.com/about.

At first it looks plain. but later I find that he translates AIR: https://erengy.com/projects/air.

(Well think again, the blog is actually nice. the urls are good. accessibility is good.)

I suddenly realized that there are such great people supporting it, so it was a good game. It get back my interest for playing it.

(fun extra: at Microsoft, an internal Kusto database is also called Air.)

Finding people that supports you

That makes me realized that the things that power me on is people. not just technology. Also, culture.

Learning my self a cpp is hard. But I find great videos: CppCon back to basics series. It makes many things clear to me.

I’m taught python at school, but I was affetcted by the elegancy of pandas. It also has good community: North Bay Python. the job video involving the zen of python inspired me.

I don’t know Germany. But I later get two friends at Mastodon. They are the power source for me to learn “ein bissen” German.

(Needless to say, Japanese animes and mangas are already deep integrated into my culture life. Learning Japanese with NHK radio is just a natural outcome.)

Maintaining, not destroying and re-creating

That leads to a deeper view in life: maintaining instead of recreating.

I know Qt a lot, so when I first encountered bleachbit, I want to rewrite it using Qt. but after more investigation I find that it can be started using MSYS2 in a few searches. (I think pywin32 is not available; but there is already someone packaging it to the system package! thanks everyone for maintaining the MSYS2 package base!)

Also, when I first enter the job market, I has a belief that I must do “programming job”, not “operations job”. But later I know that the operations knowledge are the fundation of programming:

the packing environment for cpp

speaking of MSYS2, I’d like to say that cpp is not a natural suit for Windows: there are so many compilers and environments. Things are very different on Linux: existing packages, stable ABI, etc.

(Well Golang and Rust already have package registry so they don’t have this problem. Java have one long ago because it’s a Virtual Machine.)

Some other ideas

Here are some ideas coming from this discipline:

  • Keep boy-girl relations as a social basline.
  • Go to established company.
  • Maintaing rented houses instead of buying.
  • Keep family bonds instead of marrying.

Final words

I’d like write some more for life experiences, but I can’t think of any now..