sophie sunshine

I started taking a bit of a programming break over the holidays to get through some other side projects, but I'm eager to get back to working on my C compiler.

I may also be starting a side project developing a visual novel with my girlfriend when she finishes her comic!

I have a few Emacs plugin ideas, like a music player or a cookbook. At least one music player plugin already exists, and a cookbook could all just be in org mode, but it could be fun since I've been using Doom Emacs for a while and haven't hacked the editor that much besides a few utility functions sitting in my config.el.

I finished two scarves, one for my girlfriend and one for my bestie, for the holidays, and got the yarn to make a third for myself, but never started it. I may hold onto that yarn and make said scarf next autumn, or use it for something else. I'm really proud of those scarves though! They were the biggest crochet projects I've tackled thus far and the reception was positive.

After reading 30 books in 2025, I decided I'd read a little more leisurely in 2026. I do usually keep a book on me, and right now it's The Haunting of Hill House, which is so far lovely, although I only read it on lunch breaks at work so I'm not deep into it yet.

I've been eyeing these two books, and I might get one or both as a next read:

• https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com/
• https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/

I previously purchased a susbcription to 2600, since it seemed interesting and physical magazines are cute, but was disappointed to discover that the Winter 2025-2026 issue used an ugly AI-generated image as the cover. I've contemplated complaining to the editor about it.

Hollow Knight is one of the greatest games I've ever played and I'm sad I didn't start playing it earlier. I have about 17 hours of playtime at time of writing, and I am absolutely hooked. I've decided to do doing nothing with my free time until I beat it. I may move on to Silksong right after, but I've also been craving a Zelda game. Maybe Wind Waker?

Over the holidays, my sister visited, and we played some Lego Star Wars: the Complete Saga couch co-op as the gods intended; it was a lovely blast of nostalgia.

I learned how to do some basic RNG manipulation to shiny hunt in Pokemon Emerald, and it's fun! As it happens, a bug in Emerald means the RNG seed is set to 0 on boot, making it easy to calculate the frames you need to hit

My girlfriend recently released an album! It's wonderful and you should go listen to it.

I've been thinking about buying a digital audio player - one that does not have a touch screen in particular. I hate touch screens, and having a dedicated device for playing music might motivate me to actually build my digital audio collection rather than just throwing on whatever is in my Bandcamp library when I'm in the car.