# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1466789356 14400 # Node ID 5e27ae508acb276c5b6e704b733226889b0132cb # Parent d715c5484ad9c9b9203415b3783ac667087b9002 Update diff -r d715c5484ad9 -r 5e27ae508acb README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Fri Jun 10 20:29:25 2016 +0000 +++ b/README.markdown Fri Jun 24 13:29:16 2016 -0400 @@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ [cl-nrepl]: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/cl-nrepl [Dash]: https://kapeli.com/dash [Roswell]: https://github.com/roswell/roswell +[ANSI Common Lisp]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0133708756/?tag=stelos-20 +[Successful Lisp]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/3937526005/?tag=stelos-20 +[CLtL2]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1555580416/?tag=stelos-20 +[OpenGL SuperBible]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672337479/?tag=stelos-20 +[CEPL]: https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl +[On Writing]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439156816/?tag=stelos-20 +[Salem's Lot]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307743675/?tag=stelos-20 +[Reddit GDC]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/4oodum/what_are_some_of_the_best_gdc_talks/ ## 2016-06-01 @@ -99,3 +107,34 @@ * Flew back to the states for a short visit. * Fixed a pair of really nasty bugs in [Bones][] on the plane. + +## 2016-06-11 - 2016-06-23 + +* Traveling in the US. I miss American food. +* I had left a cache of paper books at a friend's place in the US, so I read + through a few while I was there. +* Read through [ANSI Common Lisp][]. Pretty basic, nothing too advanced in it. + It reminded me how much I hate Paul Graham's function/variable naming style. + Aim for brevity of *ideas*, not characters. +* Read/skimmed [Successful Lisp][]. Also pretty basic, but kind of weird at the + same time. It seemed to just skim a lot of topics and not really go in-depth + enough on any of them. Except for the chapter about the bit-twiddling + operations, which I haven't seen in any other Lisp book (except maybe + [CLtL2][]). I don't think I'd recommend it. +* Read through most of the [OpenGL SuperBible][]. Graphics programming is some + really neat and powerful stuff wrapped in a hilarious nest of disgusting + syntax and boilerplate. +* I really want to play around with shaders and such, but the C++ development + environment seems like an enourmous pain in the ass. There's also [CEPL][] + but I'm worried that I should really know some OpenGL before diving into that. + I might poke at WebGL a bit as a middle ground. +* Read through [On Writing][] by Stephen King. Some good advice in there, + especially about just reading and writing a *lot*. I haven't been reading + enough lately -- so from now on the Kindle is gonna replace my phone while on + the bus. + +## 2016-06-24 + +* Still jet lagged. Catching up on things back in Iceland. +* Halfway through [Salem's Lot][]. I forgot how much I loved reading fiction. +* Grabbed a bunch of GDC talks from [this thread][Reddit GDC] to watch later.