I'm putting up some more pages on my site, to share a few tidbits of specialist information to the Web. It's a fun endeavor.
I've also recently updated my About and Projects pages, since it's been a couple of years!
I was introduced to the Uses page by Daniel Flanagan's Uses page. I loved it! I'm building my own right here.
I have a few articles in the pipeline, but what I'm most excited for is a series on how I compute: a tour of my desktop environment, which I've customized and tweaked to quite a heavy extent over the years.
I had a eureka moment not too long ago: I love coming across deeply technical indie-web blog posts on Hacker News and Lobste.rs, but it only recently occurred to me that I could subscribe directly via RSS to the blogs I find excellent.
Between that and HN + Lobste.rs, my RSS feed now feels brimming with intriguing technical content. I love it!
Here's a direct link to my Newsboat URLs file (specifically all the blog URLs), if it helps anyone's discovery along.
I'm learning Latin! I was inspired to learn it fully as a language because of this HN post of an 1899 Harvard entrance exam — Latin and Greek are full-fledged subjects!
I'm going off Wheelock's Latin, and am currently on Chapter 4 tackling second declension nouns and adjectives.
I'm supplementing this with the Anki flash cards technique, to train my vocabulary. I use the AnkiDroid Android app. There is already a community-provided Latin deck covering Wheelock's Latin vocabulary!
I'm really happy with my fitness progress since the middle of last year. At 177 cm, I currently weigh about 71.5 kg, down from 100+ kg when I started. My total body fat is at around 12.5%.
I'm currently on a reconstitution fitness plan (build muscle, lose fat, keep weight roughly the same).
The latest adjustment I made is to track a food diary, which has allowed me to be more precise with my kcal budget day-to-day. 4 days out of the week, I do weight training, and I need a full 1800-2000 kcal split across carbs, protein, and fat. On my rest days though, I cut to 1200 kcal and reduce carbs.
It's helped me identify my rest days as the perfect opportunity to do 30-minute cardio. I try to knock down two birds with one stone: