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diff --git a/content/misc/_index.md b/content/misc/_index.md index 940b1d3..799dc06 100644 --- a/content/misc/_index.md +++ b/content/misc/_index.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: Misc +title: Miscellanea language: en ref: misc translationKey: misc @@ -10,92 +10,3 @@ disable_feed: true Here are some miscellanous things I do. -## Conlangs - -<dfn>Conlang</dfn> stands for *constructed language*. Many people created -conlangs for hobby or as linguistic experiments. - -I was inspired by the conlangs in <i>Inheritance Cycle</i> and <i>The Lord of -the Rings</i>, as well as others like Esperanto, Dothraki, Toki Pona, et al and -conlang from time to time as a hobby. None of my conlangs reached its -maturity, though, mainly due to loss of copies and lack of time. - -Some of my conlangs: - -- [Hàäsdáïga](/haasdaiga/) -- [Ravna](/ravna/) -- [Isanercent](/isanercent/) -- [Djanzi](/djanzi/) - -## Books - -I'm not the bookworm I used to be, reading mostly mainstream books. Some books -I read and liked: - -- <i>Dế Mèn phiêu lưu kí</i>, a famous children book in Vietnamese about an - arrogant cricket who learned humility and altruism during his journey. -- <i>The adventures of Valya and Karik</i>, a Russian children book (my copy - was a Vietnamese translation) about the adventures of shrunken children in - which they learn about small animals around them. -- <i>Sans famille</i>, a story about a child who had to leave his family for - poverty, though now that I think about it, it sounds like children - trafficking and child labor. -- <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i>, a dystopian tragedy that is often mistaken as - criticism of socialism, while the actual object is authoritanism and mass - surveillance. -- <i>The Hobbit</i> and <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, the well-known fantasy - franchise -- <i>Inheritance Cycle</i>, often labeled as rip-off <i>Star Wars</i> by haters -- <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, a book that's supposed to be satire but I didn't - know enough to understand these deep meanings. -- <i>Le petit prince</i>, a novella with a childish theme but discuss many - aspects of life in a lighthearted way. -- [Ellana][ellana] (<i>Le Pacte des MarchOmbres</i> series) (French) - -Books I'm reading: - -- [Ellana: L'envol][ellana-2] (<i>Le Pacte des MarchOmbres</i> series) (French) -- [Tous les hommes sont mortels][hommes-mortels] (French) -- <i>The Necromancer</i> (<i>The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel</i> - series) - -Dropped: - -- [XKCD what if](what-if) -- <i>A Storm of Swords</i>(<i>A Song of Ice and Fire</i> series) - -[what-if]: https://store.xkcd.com/pages/if-you-re-looking-for-the-what-if-book -[ellana]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24210815W/Le_Pacte_des_MarchOmbres_-_Ellana -[ellana-2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24339191W/Ellana_l%27envol -[hommes-mortels]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13053706W/Tous_les_hommes_sont_mortels - -## Project ideas - -Here are some project ideas that I have in mind, yet don't have the time to -implement any of them. You'll probably find some drafts, but practically no -work is done: - -- a small shop management app -- a modern text browser with vim keybinding -- several non-standard libs: - - a rewrite for `time` module in Go - - internalisation modules -- universal internalisation package, which contains common phrases like - "Settings", "Log in", "Account" pre-translated -- redesign this blog -- smaller and more maintainable, more packageable Anki clone - -## Comics - -Reading comics is my pastime. I follow several webcomics, some of which you -may have heard of: - -- [Pepper & Carrot](https://www.peppercarrot.com/) -- [xkcd](https://xkcd.com): nerd stuff -- [SMBC](https://smbc-comics.com): more nerd stuff, and usually less concise -- [Oglaf](https://www.oglaf.com/): silly and occasionally NSFW comics -- [Dinosaur comics](https://qwantz.com/): a 5-panel comics with only dialogues changing - -I also enjoy drawing every now and then, not that I want to be an artist or I -draw well. I just find scribbling something fun. I recently decided to post -[my doodles](/en/doodles/) on this website. |