diff --git a/about.page b/about.page index 1abbf90..3dc4b76 100644 --- a/about.page +++ b/about.page @@ -17,3 +17,53 @@ switching over to GNU/Linux. I can also be found at [github](https://github.com/ryuslash), [gitorious](https://gitorious.org/~ryuslash) and [Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/accounts/ryuslash). + +## Interests + +Next to pure coding there are some other things that I find +interesting, mostly also relating to coding or otherwise computers. + +- I am currently reading + [Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition](http://www.nostarch.com/assembly2.htm), + [The Web Application Hacker's Handbook](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118026472.do) + and + [The Ruby on Rails Tutorial (for Rails 3.2)](http://rails-3-2.railstutorial.org/). + Other books I have read include: + [The C Programming Language](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/), + [On Lisp](http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html), + [Practical Common Lisp](http://gigamonkeys.com/book/), + [Pro Git](http://git-scm.com/book), + [Seven Languages in Seven Weeks](http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks), + [Land of Lisp](http://landoflisp.com/), + [Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon](https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp), + [Dive into HTML5](http://diveintohtml5.info/), + [Head First C](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920015482.do), + [Head First Design Patterns](http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfdp/), + [Autotools](http://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm), + [Professional WordPress Plugin Development](http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-WordPress-Plugin-Development.productCd-0470916222.html), + [Lisp for the Web](https://leanpub.com/lispweb). + +- I use the + [Fantasque Sans Mono](http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono) + font (previously Cosmic Sans Neue Mono) for my terminal emulator and + text editor and I use + [News Cycle](http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/news-cycle) for all + the non-code text on this website. Other fonts I've used or tried + include: + [DejaVu Sans Mono](http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page), + [Envy Code R](http://damieng.com/blog/tag/envy-code-r), + [Liberation Mono](https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/), + [Source Code Pro](http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/), + [PT Mono](http://fonts.ru/public/). + +- I use the [Awesome](http://awesome.naquadah.org/) window manager. + Some others I have used or tried include: + [dwm](http://dwm.suckless.org/), + [Notion](http://notion.sourceforge.net/), + [Guile-WM](http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html), + [Stumpwm](http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/), + [herbstluftwm](http://herbstluftwm.org/). + + + +