# Mika's interests
## not quite ordered
* i like slide rules
* i have a past & future of using Palm devices (i own quite several)
* i like to use my HaikuOS laptop
* i wish i could write native GUI apps for it
* i want to write a GUI app in Xt/Xaw (X Athena Widgets) in plain C
* i pick Ada/SPARK when i should pick Rust that i'm scared of
* i bought myself an electronic typewriter, Optima SP 20, in February 2020
* dot-matrix printers: years earlier i first bought an OKI 3321 and then got an OKI 321 Elite, I loved them but they're huge and now they need me to replace their mainboards (i fried them with a weird long cable, i bought replacement years ago too) and they're at parents' in another city
* i will feel bad i can't switch to XMPP with you if you ask me to
* i am happy if i manage to stay with using stuff like Gemini, Matrix, Fediverse
* i am upset with my email configuration because i love email and i neglected stuff when migrating
* graphing calculators: I have a HP49g+ and a TI-83+ just because I wanted to
* i used exclusively NixOS on all desktops (laptops) for three years
* i want to use *BSD when i can a lot
* my friends use Linux without systemd, I may sometimes too
* i want to use Usenet
* i like Pascal
* i enjoyed learning stuff about ALGOL 68. I want to know what ALGOL 72 could be
* first i don't use zsh because of hard to migrate bashrc, then i switch to tcsh
* i used to use custom ROMs on Android devices for years
* i used to have Hackintoshes thanks to a friend
* i am very happy to own a PowerMac G5, was sad when an update to Diablo 2: LoD pulled support of <10.9
* i enjoy a paper bullet journal and paper notebooks
* i have a collection of ultracheap fountain pens, including historical Parker designs Chinese-nationalized edition
* i edit html in recently discovered Seamonkey Composer despite its outdatedness. otherwise i want to not close <p> tags (and other ones that are automatically closed)
* i like functional programming, I used to code in Haskell and Clojure
* i used to be a fun of Go
* i used to want to learn OCaml, F#...
* i enjoyed learning basics of WinForms (in C#), Visual Studio WinForms designer is amazing.