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Mika's interests

not quite ordered

i like slide rules
i have a past & future of using Palm devices (i own quite several)
i like to use my HaikuOS laptop
i wish i could write native GUI apps for it
i want to write a GUI app in Xt/Xaw (X Athena Widgets) in plain C
i pick Ada/SPARK when i should pick Rust that i'm scared of
i bought myself an electronic typewriter, Optima SP 20, in February 2020
dot-matrix printers: years earlier i first bought an OKI 3321 and then got an OKI 321 Elite, I loved them but they're huge and now they need me to replace their mainboards (i fried them with a weird long cable, i bought replacement years ago too) and they're at parents' in another city
i will feel bad i can't switch to XMPP with you if you ask me to
i am happy if i manage to stay with using stuff like Gemini, Matrix, Fediverse
i am upset with my email configuration because i love email and i neglected stuff when migrating
graphing calculators: I have a HP49g+ and a TI-83+ just because I wanted to
i used exclusively NixOS on all desktops (laptops) for three years
i want to use *BSD when i can a lot
my friends use Linux without systemd, I may sometimes too
i want to use Usenet
i like Pascal
i enjoyed learning stuff about ALGOL 68. I want to know what ALGOL 72 could be
first i don't use zsh because of hard to migrate bashrc, then i switch to tcsh
i used to use custom ROMs on Android devices for years
i used to have Hackintoshes thanks to a friend
i am very happy to own a PowerMac G5, was sad when an update to Diablo 2: LoD pulled support of <10.9
i enjoy a paper bullet journal and paper notebooks
i have a collection of ultracheap fountain pens, including historical Parker designs Chinese-nationalized edition
i edit html in recently discovered Seamonkey Composer despite its outdatedness. otherwise i want to not close <p> tags (and other ones that are automatically closed)
i like functional programming, I used to code in Haskell and Clojure
i used to be a fun of Go
i used to want to learn OCaml, F#...
i enjoyed learning basics of WinForms (in C#), Visual Studio WinForms designer is amazing.