Personal

Introspection

Alliteration is cool, but not particularly practical per prevalent perception.

Reading, or listening to Masters of Doom, gave me an impression that .plan files are mostly used as to-do/have-done lists as a matter of personal housekeeping. Not being particularly keen on sifting through the entirety of John Carmack’s .plan archive in search of golden bits of wisdom, I decided to employ the practice for my own use, but promptly forgot about the original source. Last week, I started going through more online material regarding the networking architecture of both the Q3A and the Source engines and stumbled upon PDF-ied releases of the aforementioned .plan files on Fabien Sanglard’s page. Turns out, JDC later used those files as a sort of a precursor to a personal blog, mostly, it seems, in a futile attempt to stifle the unbearable influx of mail. Prose is much nicer to read than lists of abbreviated thoughts, which is only proven by my devouring those pdfs as opposed to skimming them as I did with his early .plans. While I don’t particularly feel like expanding on my thoughts for my personal use only, updating this blog with more technical info on a more regular basis than just with random streams of consciousness or boring essays may only bring more (useful) life into it.