I respect what libraries do, yet the past few times I went to my local library I couldn’t find anything I was looking for—and these were well regarded and well known books. I get that they want to stock things people read, but I am a person who wants older books, and I think part of the library’s responsibility should include such books.

A lot of these things come from folk practices that the Church would permit but then direct towards something acceptable.

The cultural canon in the USA will lean towards that. I will say that, if we are to suggest more global reading, concrete examples are always welcome! I would of course recommend Journey to the West. Even among the Four Great Classical Novels it has huge lasting influence

I used to see these in Florida a lot when I was a kid. What happened?

We did.

You grew up

Yeah. There is something about carving out the image of your own mind and getting absorbed deep inside it. I will write from scratch much more than I need if it strikes me, break whatever rule I want, give names that only make sense to me. It is a sanctuary

You can tell my engagement level with my job by the commit frequency on my side-project.

If I'm deeply engaged at work, I don't have many spare cycles out of hours and there's little happening - library updates and small fiddling.

Otherwise - it's full steam ahead on projects that I somehow magically find the time for.

I don't work on my stuff during work hours - disengagement from work results in more energy and motivation to do stuff out of hours.

Weirdly, I think this actually benefits those boring workplaces too. If I'm scratching the itch with what I'm doing on my side-project - it means I'm less likely to invent interesting new ways to over-complicate things at work.

I feel bored of AI as well.

LLMs and Generative AI are exciting, and I want research and development on such to continue.

I use Copilot at work, and sometimes it is scary on point (other times not). But at home, I like to do things by hand. I code unassisted, I draw with pencil and paper.

The conversation and secondary effects of AI, feel so dreary and banal. It is amazing technology, wielded so lazily

This is rather timely—I started playing with PDCurses after being inspired by Zed Shaw’s “Rogue is the Best Project”. It has been an interesting experience

Would anyone know how we, the American public, can push for reform? Illegal immigration and social issue flag waving is in every press release but we need to demand and hold accountable lawmakers and enforcers.

I wish in matters of religion that HN could have discussion with less polemics or axe grinding.

My thoughts exactly. I live in Florida, and have for 30 years. I’ve never personally used my insurance, and my parents had to use theirs once when the neighbor’s tree randomly fell in our yard, and they also had their insurance pay for most of their roof-a lot of people do. I paid for my own roof fully out of pocket.

If you are near water or below ground then there is a near certain risk of flood, and I realize I subsidize those areas while I chose to stay away from water. But the entire national conversation is focused on saying that climate change has doomed Florida