All time favorite video games
- X-COM UFO Defense
- Sim City 2000
- Zelda
- Link
- Perfect Dark
- Sim Farm
- Theme Park
- War Craft II
- Super Dodge Ball
- Mario Cart (Game Cube)
- Driver
- Wolf 3D
- Duke Nukem 3D
Published on 2019-01-05 by Stephen Swensen
Some of my favorite software
A non-exhaustive list of some software I admire (as a developer):
- RabbitMQ
- PostgreSQL
- FreeBSD
- Docker
And services:
- DigitalOcean
- Stripe
- CloudAMQP
And languages:
And hardware:
Published on 2019-01-04 by Stephen Swensen
x11 forwarding (linux guest, windows host)
I'm playing with sdl2 and rust. In my setup, I ssh from Bash for Windows (WSL) into Ubuntu Server running inside Virtual Box. In order to run my sdl2 app over my ssh connection, I needed to:
- Install xorg in the guest:
sudo apt install xorg
- Install Xming on Windows
- Set the DISPLAY variable in my WSL host session:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
- Use the -X flag in my ssh command
Published on 2019-01-03 by Stephen Swensen
Themes for 2018 (and previous years back-dated)
Themes for 2018:
- Piano technique and larger scale composition: fingering and left / right hand coordination
- Learning about stocks and investing
- Mexican coinage (Libertads)
- Rust programming language (towards the end of the year)
- Cooking meat (dabbling with low-carb diet)
- (Re-)discover Chet Atkins (beyond his Christmas album, which was an early favorite)
And while I'm thinking about it, Themes for 2017:
- Fishing and exploring more of the hidden treasures of the area I live in
- Getting a music system set up (after a decade left behind by technology) and establishing a record collection
2016:
- Sylvie baby :)
- Relay Foods (realizing dream of working professionally with F#, being part of a local start up and good food movement)
- Travis Picking and other intensive technical guitar practice
2015:
Sort of a random busy year with not much in the way of personal projects that I can recall:
- Establishing our new home
- New (management) responsiblities and big projects at work
- Enjoying little Aria Bel and finding out we have another on the way!
2013-2014 (baby blur):
- Aria Bel baby :)
- Exploring new genre of creative music (prolific): vocal-first compositions and recordings for baby Aria - Goose O'Clock
- Bought our first house!
- Founded Swensen Software
- Got into Linux, flashing distros and such
2012:
- Left public sector, started new path in ecommerce at Musictoday
- Living the easy, lazy DINK life :)
- Strong song writing period
- Tape-to-CD project (digitizing scores of old cassette tape records going back decades)
2011:
- The year of F# and Open Source: Unquote, FsEye, and NL (language design and compiler implementation)
2010:
- Started getting into Stackoverflow: teaching really is the best way to learn
2009:
- Packed up and left NOVA for the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
2008:
- Married my best friend and high school sweetheart, my lovely wife Priya
2007:
- Graduated from college with a degree in Mathematics, and much enriched from well rounded liberals arts education
- Got my first job as a developer, put my nose to the grinder and set my course
- Prolific song writing period (guitar), induced as outlet from the intensity of work
Published on 2018-12-30 by Stephen Swensen
Update (2019-01-05): fleshed out 2017 and farther back dates
netrw replacement for NERDTree
See https://shapeshed.com/vim-netrw/
Published on 2018-12-30 by Stephen Swensen
Update (2019-01-03): I wasn't able to get this to work perfectly. Namely, existing from the netrw buffer had some problems.