Lists of things (very specific)
This page lists stuff related to my interests, mostly. I'm not sure what else I can say...
Languages I'm more or less proficient in (programming)
I would say I know my way around HTML and CSS just fine, as well as Markdown, which this site is brought to you through
(using Eleventy, which also uses JavaScript, which I am at least somewhat proficient in, and Nunjucks, which I'm kinda figuring out).
I can generally find my way around scripting as well (Batch, PowerShell and Bash, mostly),
and data interchange formats like JSON, TOML, XML (and XML-based formats) and YAML.
Languages I want to learn (programming)
I'm currently working through the C# certification at freeCodeCamp (well, I was, but have been distracted for quite a while),
and I want to be proficient in a good bit of the .NET ecosystem (ASP.NET, Avalonia/MAUI, ML.NET, Unity, etc).
In the future, I would like to be proficient in quite a lot of languages;
ActionScript (along with MXML, for AIR/Flash/Flex archival/decompilation),
Assembly (first x86 with Intel syntax, since that's what MASM uses, then probably other CPUs),
C++ (Visual C++ and Clang), F#, GLSL, Haskell, HLSL, Java (including Jakarta EE and JavaFX), LaTeX, Lua, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python (with Tcl/Tk),
R, SQL (MS-SQL and MySQL/MariaDB), Ruby, Rust, SVG (as in, writing them from scratch), Swift, and TypeScript seem the most relevant.
Languages I want to learn (linguistics)
I would like to learn Japanese, Hebrew (nothing wrong with a gentile learning Hebrew), and Welsh, mostly;
those are the three languages I have in my Duolingo list, anyway.
Software preferences
Operating systems
Windows boy? Someone's a little Windows boy? (I'm a little Windows boy (gender neutral.))
I don't give a shit one way or the other; I think NT, XNU, and Linux should all exist,
becuase none of them are inherently 'better' than one another at the end of the day.
As I currently write this, I'm using Windows 11 on my 'workstation' system (Lenovo LOQ),
on my handheld PC where I play most games (ROG Ally), and my tablet I use for media and drawing (Surface Pro 7).
When using Linux in other environments... well, I suppose Podman on Windows uses RHEL/Fedora in WSL, but I don't dislike
Ubuntu and Debian, either. I also think openSUSE is cool, but it doesn't have enough real backing like the former two
from a community; it's very much held up by SUSE, almost entirely.
I have used macOS before, and I like it quite a lot, but I don't have Apple hardware money these days.
BSD is cool, and I wish it had more use (namely for desktop),
since I like the philosophy of BSD-licenced software much more than that of GPL-licenced software a la Linux, but such is life.
Desktop environments and window managers
When diving into the hell that is the Linux desktop (I'm being tongue-in-cheek, put down the pitchfork),
I can only stand KDE Plasma and GNOME (and even then, I'd only use KDE myself,
because GTK is a nightmare toolkit from hell [pitchforks down, again]),
largely because they're currently the only ones that actually care about moving forward,
namely in that they not only bother to have Wayland support at all, but that it's the default.
There's many smaller DEs and WMs that I like, but they all have their own issues
(mostly having no roadmap towards Wayland, poor-to-non-existent HiDPI suport,
or just not being maintained at all to begin with), so they have no purpose other than a curio, but curios I like nonetheless.
Those, for me, would include MATE, Trinity, Unity, Xfce, MaXX Interactive Desktop, IceWM and Window Maker.
Old ones that clearly are out of step with them times still have a place in my heart, too; like CDE, ROX Desktop, and the original; twm.
Browsers
Can I just write 'Holy shit, I don't care' like, fifty times, here? If it can run a version of uBlock Origin,
that's all that matters (and yes, the Lite version is fine while I'm using Chrome, or whatever.)
I currently use Chrome because Firefox doesn't believe in PWAs for some reason; but it's fine software.
If I see one more post on social media saying to use some outdated Firefox fork,
because the poster is paranoid out of their gourd about shit that doesn't matter,
I'm going to (figuratively) shit.
Text Editors and IDEs
Visual Studio Code is what is bringing this website to you, at the moment.
For languages with good support, either in-box or by extensions, for it, I do like Visual Studio (fmr. Visual Studio.NET) quite a lot.
That's about it.
Creative software
I don't know Blender very well, but I've used it before to work with 3D models regardless.
GIMP is a great example of why 'good enough' is a bad design philosophy. Too bad it's the only thing of its kind that's free.
(Microsoft Paint has evolved to basically replace Paint.NET for me by now, so...
and no, I don't care to deal with bypassing modern activation for Photoshop. I'd just pay for it...)
For vector images, there's Inkscape, and for raster drawing, there's Krita.
You can tell Krita is a standout of the KDE software collection because it's used by Windows users, too. (/lh)
Also, Kiki is very cute... if only GIMP embraced Wilbur more, I would feel more remorse shit talking it. (/j)
And of course, the gold standard in pixel art (according to me and maybe some other people, I dunno,) Aseprite.
Other software choices
If you use Windows, you use Microsoft Office, if you use Linux, you use LibreOffice.
This is exactly as many words as deserves to be expended on talking about office suites.
Nobody gives a shit about the OOXML/ODF divide. Go outside. Breathe fresh air.
XFS is my file system of choice on Linux, except when architecture necessitates another file system.
I use VLC for video and music on all of my systems. Not really much to elaborate on.
Oh, and seed your torrents. Or don't, I'm not your mom.
I use qBittorrent when very legally acquiring things over peer to peer.
