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Bio

This is the personal website for Greg Miller. This is simply my place on the internet to put things I want, and it is not specific to my career.

I'm only 30 years old, and over the last 10 years, I have begun to find out what it's like to change over time and start to really think about it. There are some important things that I've learned in the last while. Maybe some of those things are:

Other cultures change my views wildly. I haven't travelled a great amount, but it has helped me get out of my comfort zone by finding new things to enjoy, such as food, art, style, finding people that share my values, people with different views, etc. Travelling allows me to find new ways of thinking, and in my eyes, might be an essential part of a good life.
Three of the most important men in my life were handymen; one grandfather was an engineer, the other was a reverend, and my father is an engineer. They all have three things in common: to use quality materials, the preference for things to be done right the first time, and learning the skills to do it themselves. I've try to have that mindset. One of the important things I'm looking forward to in the next year or two is having a home to work on and a place to do woodwork.
My friends are the most important thing in my life. Without them, I'd be a different person.
Originality is maybe the most important quality I've found in people. There's nothing like finding others who value originality. I love it when people do their best to think creatively and independently. On that note, I think AI is poison to originality, and will keep us from being our most creative and independent.

Hobbies: woodworking, travelling, reading, motorcycling, camping, cycling, snowboarding, hiking.

Books

Favourite: Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
Best of 2025: Assassin's Apprentice (Barbara Kingsolver)
Best of 2024: The Little Liar (Mitch Albom)
Best of 2023: Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
Best of 2022: Mistborn: The Final Empire (Brandon Sanderson)
Best of 2021: The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
Best of 2020: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
Best of 2019: The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

... Didn't track before 2019

Programming

I've been programming ~10 years now. My favourite language is Golang due to it's simplicity and lack of features. In an ideal world, I never have to reason about nested ternaries, traverse gnarly abstractions with polymorphism, or muck my way through magic methods in a framework with bad conventions. JavaScript should not exist.

On my own time, I enjoy making interpreters and creating small games.

To write code, I use Neovim. To read code, I use vscode. Additionally, I use powerlevel10k, tmux, and Rectangle.