April 13th 2026 - One Effect of Reading Blogs, Things I Worked On, and Reading Summary

One effect of reading blogs

One awesome effect of reading blogs is it makes the internet feel bigger. For a long time, as I said in a previous post, I was stuck visting a few websites and the internet felt really boring and small. But reading blogs makes it feel alive and interesting again. I think the fact that I'm reading books more consistently has increased the joy I feel when reading. I remember a time, not so long ago, when I would try to skim articles as quickly as possible because reading felt like a chore accompanied by uncomfortable emotions.

With reading a page a day I notice an increased enjoyment when reading.

Added Elfeed keybindings

In order to make elfeed a bit more comfortable to use I added these keybindings. I'm using evil-mode by the way as I love vim keybindings and motions. 

(evil-leader/set-key
  "e e" 'elfeed
  "e r" 'elfeed-update
  "e s" 'elfeed-summary)

Reading

The Hobbit Reading Summary

  • How Gandalf knew about the trolls

    They set out on their journey and Gandalf is questioned on where he went and how he knew about the trolls. He explains that he went to scout ahead and met some elves (Elrond's people) from Rivendell who told him there were 3 trolls along the road. He said he looked back and saw a fire in the distance and felt like he was needed back to help.

The Eye of the World Reading Summary

  • The destruction of the Kinslayer

    The Kinslayer summons too much power and a lightning bolt comes down and hits him. This causes lava to spew 500 feet in the air and the earth to rise where he stands even higher. Eventually he disintegrates and all that is left is the mountain of earth where he stood miles into the sky with lava oozing out. The lava falls off the edge and splits into a forked river forming an island where the dark figure stands and says he isn't done with the Kinslayer until the end of time and he will meet him again.

Atomic Habits Reading Summary

  • Systems are more important than goals

    It mentions how systems are more important than goals. That one can focus on systems instead of results and still achieve goals.

Prot's Elisp Book Reading Summary

  • Only 2 fundamental things in Emacs Lisp

    There are only 2 things in Emacs Lisp: fundamental objects and lists of them.

    The fundamental objects are:

    • Primitives like numbers and string
    • Symbols like variables, function names, and other character symbols
  • Expressions

    Every expression is a list (functionName argument1 argument2…) where arguments are optional. Some functions have mandatory arguments.

    Example (use SPC-x to run): 

    (message "Hello world, this is my message to you!")