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Caleb's Notes

Hi there! I'm Caleb 👋

This personal website is a spot for me to share random stuff that I'm thinking about or working on. It has three major sections:

  • Notes: That's this section, the one you're reading right now. Roughly speaking, these notes are a Digital Garden.
  • Guides: How-to's and Beginner Introductions to a few of the tools and technologies I use a lot.
  • Blog: Time-bound stuff—e.g., ideas I'm contemplating, dev logs for projects I'm working on, and problems I'm in the middle of solving.

What can you find here?​

The sidebar (👈) has some top-level pages to help me organize this mess.

  • What's New is an inconsistently-updated Changelog of this website to help document what I've been devoting attention to recently.
  • Learn about me under About Me.
  • The biggest section of this "Notes" area is Life, the Universe, and Everything, an exercise in Thinking in Public about... everything I can. Each page is a short essay about a topic. Almost all of the pages are works-in-progress, or placeholders with no content (yet).
  • Things I've Made serves as a convenient place to link to when I make stuff other places (like GitHub or Twitter).
  • Finally, Resource Library is for sharing recommended books, YouTube videos, podcast episodes, and other resources that I've benefitted from (and some of them have commentary as well).

New here?​

Here's some stuff I like to think and write about to get you started exploring:

Here's some hobbies and some media that I enjoy.

Brewing Ideas​

  • Why I love AutoHotkey so much, and how I use it together with Roam Research and VS Code for my Personal Knowledge Management workflow
  • What's so troublesome about Platonism as a Christian Metaphysic and why I prefer (and think The Bible is more consistent with) something more like Hebraic Covenantalism
  • Why EVERYONE should learn basic Category Theory and, therefore, why I think we should teach it to high school students instead of Algebra
  • Why anyone who aspires to think, reason, and communicate clearly should learn Haskell (especially Christian Theologians and students of the Divinities
  • Listening carefully to Daniel Schmachtenberger on a variety of topics:
  • The concept of The Liberal Arts as those skills which members of a free society need to be successful (and which a free society needs its members to have to be successful itself)
  • Why the term Position is useful for expressing the generic concept of one's intellectual assent and convicted commitment to supporting an idea, belief, or decision
  • Why "Character" is a more useful and less error-prone concept than "Essence" when it comes to seeking and communicating our grasp of the behavior, quality, or "is-ness" of a thing
  • How Symbols and Typology serve as proving grounds for our understanding of Truth and Meaning (and how Category Theory clarifies the whole project)
  • Learning Clojure, and some thoughts that has provoked about language and Learning in general