Posted on Jan 4, 2025
I’ve been doing some cleanup; I need simplicity.
My Bitbucket account is gone: I do not like the website; it appears that I am now able to put binary release files on Github, which is something that caused me many troubles years ago, so I do not need Bitbucket’s project download areas anymore.
My software is only on Github. In one of the possible futures I will update my profile image, which is getting pretty old; but not tomorrow (I have not changed very much, but still…) (I’m not photogenic) (someday I will give up and start wearing reading glasses, this will transform me in the cool intellectual character from anime series: get ready female mammals of planet Earth!).
I have also deleted many software projects that I have no intention of touching anymore; it makes no sense to keep them in public repositories (they are also easy targets for fake followers, which is a thing for some reason I will never understand); I still have them in my triple backups at home, so I can recycle some code if I need to.
Some projects will undergo deep rewriting, renaming and branch chopping: I will remove them and re–upload them when they are somewhat functioning. I will try to focus on C11, gnu Bash, maybe something for gnu Emacs.
I will give some thinking to Scheme. Lisp gives me something that no other language can; I have a big code base under the Vicare project; I want more than Scheme; I want a strongly typed language; I want a compiler that transforms Lispy code into C language code which can be compiled to native Unix shared objects; I want a language implementation that does not require a PhD in Software Engineering to be understood. I do not know what to do.
It’s been quite some time since I stopped informing myself about the latest trends in software engineering; what are people on Programming and Coding Reddits talking about? Phython won; are functional languages on the retreat? If I see too much AI stuff: I will puke, I cannot take it anymore. Anyway, the era of free Travis CI is over; my era of Github badges is over; I will have to remove them all; it will take time.
In the latest months I have developed a toy project which has spawned other projects. I’m close to tag the next development releases and consequently upload the documentation on my website.
At my age: there is plenty of stuff I do not care about anymore. In software: I am tempted to target only the gnu platform, especially the gnu Compiler Collection and the gnu C Library; why should I care about anything else?