Ronald Fischer - Interests

Interests

For discussing all kinds of programming topics with fellow programmers around the world, Stackoverflow became my second home. When it comes about how to use a particular piece of software, I rely on Superuser. For Apple-related stuff (programming and using), the place to go is "Ask Different".
Long time ago, I did a lot of C++ programming. The language changed considerably since this time, but while the official ANSI standard must be paid for, the drafts to the respective versions are still available for free, for instance https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4868/
Unfortunately nobody offered me a project using Functional Programming yet, but I am following the developments in this area, and have in particular interests in the language Haskell. In particular the GHC implementation is supported by an impressive library. If you want to start with Haskell, I recommend that you install Stack, which bundles GHC, the Cabal package manager and a command line.
For my Linux work, I mostly use ElementaryOS.
To survive on Windows, I'm still using Cygwin (instead of WSL or GitBash)
For shell programming, I now turned completely to the Z-Shell, after having spent many years of bash programming. In particular I find the rules about parameter expansion in zsh much more convenient than in bash.

While I don't have much inclination in doing sports, I enjoy ballroom dancing and even did a little bit of dance competitions (with very moderate success), until a leg injury caused me to retire. But even though I don't go to tournaments anymore, I am member in a dance club Metropol and take part of the weekly training.
I enjoy learning languages and in particular have interest in Japanese. If you are looking for a good dictionary, I recommend online "Wadoku" (German-Japanese), and for the smartphone the apps "Midori" (English-Japanese) and "Imiwa" (German-Japanese).
As a "paid hobby", I am offering German lessons for foreigners, with a focus on Japanese customers. Since I am right now still working fulltime as a programmer, there is not that much time left for teaching, but I had in the past successfully gave lectures to students from Japan and China, and at the moment one from Australia.
I enjoy eating and drinking and travelling, here too with some inclination to Japan. One of my preferred snacks is the Japanese Onigiri, also known as Omusubi. You can buy good ones in Munich for instance at Ohmusubi.
For getting an idea of how Japanese see Germans, I like Nipponip, which is not only a web site, but also a free magazine (in Japaenese)
When travelling Japan by train, I do my time planning mostly using Jorudan, which is available in an English version and a Japanese one. Another similar site I use often is Hyperdia.