Times are changing in scary and horrible ways. Some say coding, together with many other human burdens, will be completely solved in just a matter of time. Even if that were the case, did painters stop painting after photography came about? Painting by hand is still enjoyed by many.

Here are some cool activities you can practice as a developer to keep enjoying your craft and to keep getting better at it.

I like writing software and computers. I've also always been fascinated by the theory of programming languages and computation itself. This is an important premise to make, since not everyone is coding with the same objectives as I do.

For instance I cherish safety and correctness before performance or development time, and what I cherish the most is the ability to reason about complex system via elegant abstractions, just like a mathematician loves a short but deep formula.

We should never forget that, up until now, the abstractions we developed were meant for humans to understand chasing some idea of "elegance".

This is a general list of command line tricks I find myself doing on Linux. Most of these are often bad ideas and better suited alternatives for the job exist.

As the general quality of software, hardware and pretty much everything declines, I have found great solace in setting up my newly-refurbished ThinkPad from scratch.

If you come from the Linux world and you've never tried FreeBSD before, you should. This is a list of nice features FreeBSD offers that I kind of miss when I go back to my Linux desktop and servers.

For the past 8 months I worked in an undisclosed company, and I began to use a lot of software I never had the chance or interest to look at because you only need it at enterprise scale. I've learned to look at software in a lot new ways that I completely missed as a hobbist.

I display some custom text using fortune whenever I open a new terminal. Since a few people have asked me how do I do it, I'll write it here as a sort of reminder/reference, even if it's a very simple man fortune away.