The years start coming and they don’t stop coming, once said a wise man, and sure enough here we are in a new year. This one they’re calling Twenty Twenty-Six. An apt name. And it’s supposed to be a big year for AI. That is practically all anyone is talking about. And I’m nobody special, so I expect that I will spend a lot of this year learning about, thinking about and writing about AI. I am right now in the process of writing a post on just that subject. Of course, I’ll have ChatGPT give it a look before I post it. It is 2026, after all.
Incidentally, I also recently started a another blog, called Exploring Emacs. When I decided to start this blog, I had a vague idea of it being a programming blog. As it turned out, pretty much from the beginning, instead of writing about programming I was writing about books I’d read, movies I’ve watched and just things I’ve thought about. And that is what I want this blog to continue to be about, a place where I can talk to myself about things I have enough interest in to spend the time putting them into words.
But I do still want a place to do more technical writing, and to keep that writing focused on a technology I am really interested in exploring, and so one day a few months ago I got inspired, registered a domain name, learned enough about Hugo and Github Actions to publish a site, and now I have an Emacs blog. I have an aspiration to add a post every other week, but not much confidence in my ability to stick to that schedule. It doesn’t look like much right now, but check back in later in the year, maybe it will have developed into something more impressive.
Of course, I am starting this blog at a time when it seems that AI is poised to take on much of the responsibility for all this computer stuff. I will put my thoughts about that into a firmer shape in the upcoming post. Maybe by the end of the year this will all be considered retro-computing. Sure, some people like tinkering with a Commodore 64 decades after the last one was sold, its a harmless hobby. It may be that much of what we are currently doing in the computing industry will be relegated to harmless hobby status. We shall see. My plan for this year is just to keep learning, as I have every other year, and keep my eyes open as things unfold.