How you going? My name is Béla, I’m 19 years old and currently a high school student in Hungary. I study programming in school, but outside of that, I spend my time on learning things such as physics, mathematics, and astronomy. I study these in my free time, often going deep into topics that aren’t covered at school. A lot of what I write about in these areas ends up here.
I use Emacs as my main working environment, whether it is for school, note taking, programming. I used Vim for years, but Emacs won me over because of Elisp, Org and how easily I can shape it into what I need. I don’t use Emacs for everything, just what it’s genuinely good for: writing, note-taking, blogging, coding, and working with LaTeX. I write a lot of math-heavy documents, so LaTeX is second nature by now. I don’t like to get into editor wars, I don't see the meaning of competition. I use Emacs because it works for me, and I move on.
Physics and math equations are displayed through the use of MathJax (javascript display engine for math), converted from (Emacs) Org files to HTML. Basic LaTeX knowledge is required to write such equations, and I had a lot of time to reflect on LaTeX and Org Mode.
I’m also into photography, especially street photography and macrophotography. I photograph many things using a Nikon D5600 with with a Nikkor objective and I focus stack for macro pictures. I preserve the specimens myself, and I document them in high detail. Alongside ze bugs, I also collect and catalog gemstones. I’m slowly building a digital museum of both.
Most of my school programming is C# and web stuff. Outside school, I write code in Python, Javascript, Typescript for larger projects, and Elisp. I use JavaScript here and there for site features like scroll-to-top buttons (you can find those in my notes), math rendering, and some responsive tweaks (for TOC). Everything works without JS too (if you decide to disable it), but some things (like equations) won’t render.
I am a proud collector of many books which I will rarely read in the foreseeable future. Some books are beautiful to own, while some others I tend to revisit a lot.
I took astrophysics classes from September of 2024 to December (for high schoolers), which fueled my curiosity for physics and astronomy even more.
Feel free to look around if you’re interested in the things I study or work on. If you want to contact me: bela@gyenes.xyz
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You see most of the main pages on the top of this page, on the navigation bar. This is the home page, and I have a notes section too. I have a links site too. I try to keep links clean and tidy, and I use it as bookmarks.
My current subdomains are homepage and archive. Homepage shouldn't be too interesting for most people, but that's what I use as my default home page on Librewolf. On archive, I save websites locally which I might find very interesing. Planetmath is one of them.