Hi there, I’m Mitch.
I’ve been working with software, both personally and professionally, for a little while, and it felt weird to not have my own website so here we are.
I’m hoping this place can be somewhere I can just post whatever I’ve been writing. I like (or at least, used to do quite frequently, so I would count that as liking) writing about books and movies, some American football, sometimes software.
My hobbies nowadays are reading novels, and studying things related to computers.
My favorite books so far are:
- Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
- Small Lives by Pierre Michon
- Inland by Gerald Murnane
I think I like books that scramble my perception of reality and throw me all over the place. I think part of it is that these writers have muses, apparitions that they need to keep alive, and the way they give shape and color to these ghosts moves me. Like they need to see a transient something, and they only have finite things to work with.
And for any tech people reading, some other hopefully interesting details: I’m currently writing this on LunarVim (a neovim “distro”) on my home server (Ubuntu) through a tmux session, and using Hugo to create static pages from markdown. And I’m using Cloudflare Pages to host these pages for free. I spend a lot of time on the terminal, both for personal and work stuff.
Currently I’m trying to study more low-level technical concepts, like how CPUs work, and also networking. I went into software without a proper educational background in it, and I’m the type of person who likes really understanding things and how exactly they work, so working almost purely at the higher application levels in professional settings has made me curious about what goes on under the hood.
Anyways, thanks for stopping by!