Journal

Good morning Internet!

This morning, I'm updating my /like page, as much as possible.

That's an interesting exercise!

I'm also thinking of whether it stills make sense to teach programming, and computer science nowadays. If so, I have some ideas in the field. If not, I may be losing my time.

Good afternoon, Internet!

I just came back from my daily walk in the park. The blue sky offered a nice sea of clouds. People seemed happy. God that was good!

I listened to the latest episode (about half of it) of the Tetragrammaton podcast, with a short novel writer named George Saunders. There were some good insights in it about creativity, and other things. The advertisements are a little bit annoying, even though they are creative (good point!). I wish I could pay to skip those. I think I tend to prefer the way that David Senra inserts them in his podcast.

I have a few other things in my mind that I should get it out, by putting them down on paper the screen.

I am wondering if LLMs could be great at neologisms, and whether someone ever tried such a thing. I definitely should do some research on this topic (or delegate it to a crazy good deep research agent). I love neologisms: cyberpunk, hyperstition, antifragile, serendipity, ... It'd be great to be able to invent such things, and to ensure that it is really a new term (that it doesn't already exist somehow). It'd be worth exploring whether there are linguistic theories, or whatever, about neologisms.

Yesterday, I was watching a movie with Brad Pitt called F1. I was thinking about how much I love sport movies like this one, even though very commercial and a little bit superficial, in the way they give a taste for intensity. For example, I also loved Le Mans 66, even though I do not care much about car sports. Some on X could shitpost about the masculin urge to do intensive shit (even though it's definitely not reserved to men solely). There was this old movie I discovered by looking at early Belmondo's career, Les Copains du dimanche, about french ouvriers restoring an old airplane, to fly it on Sundays. For some reason, it makes me think about this movie. There are things about team work, revenge-on-life, high adversity, that definitely appeal me in this kind of movies.

I think it's about it for now. I'll spend the afternoon experimenting on a fork of FreeCodeCamp, and see where it leads me. I'll probably update this journal entry this evening.

The freeCodeCamp fork experience didn't lead to anything: i am not a big fan of their technology choices. I think I'd better build such a learning experience from scratch, even though I'd take inspiration from some aspects of freeCodecamp.

But, even though I have some ideas about how to build a learning app for programming, the space is so crowded, and I do not think that my ideas are good enough to bring something that good to the table.

I need to experiment with something else...