• I think I’ll be able to complete 1000 km of run this year without putting any special effort 🤞🏾.
• Eating outside for food, like movies, is becoming a luxury. Thankfully the traditional South Indian restaurants are still standing strong.
  • Covid had a negative impact on restaurants and car hygiene. We have not recovered from it yet.
  • Weird how things become worse slowly and then get normalized — like garbage in Bengaluru?
• I applied at a few places for my next startup. I don’t think I did an outstanding job at the application, but time was short.
  • I decided to go through them pretty late. I feel most alive in the driver seat.
  • It doesn’t have to be a startup. An open source project gives me the same feeling.
    You make decisions and you are responsible for everything! You only deal with your own BS 🙂!
• I meant to write about what went wrong at the previous one. I don’t think I can still write about it, I’ll try soon though.
• I like EF, Antler, and South Park Commons–like programs. They let you, even encourage you, to walk in from the front door. For someone like me, who never had social capital or connections, this is something to be supported and cherished.
• I read a funny story on this thread RE: What’s so cool about Scheme?

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion,
Anton said, “Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing – is this true?”
Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, “Foolish pupil – objects are merely a poor man’s closures.”

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures.
He carefully read the entire “Lambda: The Ultimate…” series of papers and its cousins,
and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system.
He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying,
“Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man’s closures.”
Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying,
“When will you learn? Closures are a poor man’s object.”
At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

• I added two more articles about OOP to my reading list.
• OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing — many comments on this article are edifying; for example, OOP is great at managing shared state (e.g. GUIs), while the functional approach is better at linear data flow.
  • When did people favor composition over inheritance?
• Nice to see the community trying to make C a bit more secure: Giving C a Superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) and projects like https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c.