Newsletter September 2026: Hobby Projects Inspiration

This month I've not spent much time on hobby projects at all. The main reason is probably that I've not been that motivated. However, I stumbled upon a few things that caught my interest.

I watched Geoffrey Litt: Dynamic Documents as Personal Software. What he describes feels similar to what the Canon Cat wanted to do. A world where there are no apps. Everything is integrated in a document-centric environment. This servers as inspiration for me in rlworkbench.

I also found I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong which I though was an interesting take on syntax highlighting.

Finally, I came across Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (via Mu, via A virtual machine is a program that acts like a computer). I've not read much of it, but I feel like it would be super interesting to dig into.

I feel like I need to take some time off work to give myself some time to fully explore all my programming interests.