Eeep, that was a long wait. However, hello my lovley (if imaginary) reader, I'm back.

Current Obssions

• Don Coffey's cab ride videos. Don is a train driver who posts videos of the routes their train takes. The videos have ambient audio (meaning the recording of the inside of the cab), and often have commentry as subtitles. I'm finding them absolutley mesmirising. Nothing happens, for two to four hours! Except it does, because there's a lot going on (points, signals, bridges, tunnels, other trains) but there's no artificial drama (or real drama for that matter), and often really nice landscape.

  (As a side effect, I've rediscovered Raildar, which is a map of the UK rail network with realtime train information)

• Also on YouTube, Blacktail Studio is a guy who makes really expensive tables (like, 15k$ tables) and films themself doing it, and then talks over the film. A bit more drama than Don, but not by much, and again, just relaxing noise.

• I'm running through Crafting Interpreters again, this time with the goal of using lox as a language to build a browser in (per [browser.engineering)[https://browser.engineering/]).

  I feel this one needs a bit more justification than normal. (Or rather, I want to talk about my idea :) ).

  I don't like that Chrome has taken over the world. It was bad when Microsoft/IE did it, it's bad now that Google/Chrome are doing it, and it will be bad if/as/when the next people manage to kick Chrome off the top spot. I'm using Firefox as my daily browser, but I don't like relying on other people for things that I can do myself (see: webmail).

  I know that modern browsers are crazy complex, but a lot of that complexity isn't being used in my favour anyway. There are still plenty of simple sites with easy layout, not a lot of javascript, and intresting things to say.

  I like C# as a language/environment, but I don't like the way it's got Microsoft looming over it. I like C as an open, simple, ubiquitous langage, but it does get verbose. Using Lox as a starting point gives me (theoretically, at least) a high level language that I control.

Of course, it's not really that simple, but let's see how far I get, yeah?