06 march 2017
I tried to set my partner up with tilde.town today, but got overexcited about everything I learned over the last couple of months and wasn't the beeeest teacher. I wanted her to use tilde, but first to get to know git, and also to learn a little bit of vim to be able write git commit messages within tilde, And also that she should get to know the man command for all questioins...and at this time I realized i was just typing on her computer, talking to myself, while she looked at me supportively.
But it is really exciting to get even a tad bit good at this command line and text editor stuff. There's so much beautiful history and weirdness in all the odd commands...though I think I might've been spending too long thinking about this. AT a bar on saturday, the conversations somehow led to talking about how there's something inherently magic in the way we designed file structures and command lines, in the fact that you invoke a command, or that directories are based on branches, leaves(nodes), and trees. That the innerworkings of a computer make sense when you view it all as a big metaphor, struggling to be articulated...and then i realized I've prolly been spending too much time on here. I need distance at least as a way to articulate this grand bright feeling I have when using vim, or loggin into tilde Talks for another day!
Related to computer magic, I started up regular sonic-pi practice again--keeping a note log this time to remember all the interesting things I find mid-jam. I love the singular purpose of sonic pi, and how rich of a language it is since it is meant to cover all aspects of song and sound. but jeeeeeeeeesus is it hard to actually realize the songs through code. But I am getting there.
I wrote this sleepy! Not the smartest, cos it is raaaambly. Thank you for reading!