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A now page is a kind of ersatz finger-page.

December 2024

This page is updated in December, 2024.

Writing

Still working as a freelance technical writer, and writing articles for the Dutch Linux Magazine

I love Gopher and post on my Gopher burrow on a regular basis, see: gopher://box.matto.nl

I post more occasionally on this blog.

Reading

Currently reading:

• Dying Inside (1972) by Robert Silverberg
• The Tao of Inner Peace (1990) by Diane Dreher

Recommendable books¹ I have read in 2024:

• All Systems Red (2017) by Martha Wells
• Paycheck (2003) a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick
• Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling
• Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
• Adventures in Immediate Unreality (1936) by Max Blecher
• Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood
• The End of Eternity (1955) by Isaac Asimov
• Player Piano (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Time Out of Joint (1959) by Philip K. Dick
• Simulacron-3 (1964) by Daniel F. Galouye
• Play It as It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
• The Sheep Look Up (1972) by John Brunner
• Small Gods (1992) by Terry Pratchett
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury
• Red Alert (1958) by Peter George
• Witches Abroad (1991) by Terry Pratchett
• The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf

And short stories:

• The Six Fingers of Time (1960) by R.A. Lafferty

Non-fiction:

• The Time Illusion by John Gribbin (short piece)

1.: Other books won't make it to this list

Learning

• Coding in Elisp
• Coding in SBCL Common Lisp

Playing

• Helping with the community server on occ.deadnet.se for particpants in the Old Computer Challenge.
• In August 2023 I started the IRC channel #phloggersgarage on Libera Chat, and enjoy hanging out there.
• Coding in Elisp and Common Lisp

Using

See also my Uses page.

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