Hi there and howdy,

I'm Recompile.

As you might have noticed, I'm named after the process of translating human-readable programming code into computer language, known as Compiling. The re- is a morpheme of the English language, it is a prefix that can not be used in isolation, meaning the action indicated by the stem is performed again or repeatedly. The name is a paraphrase of contribution, which—as usual in Wikipedia—is done by re-editing what is already there; I do not intend to troll meaningful contributions.

I'm a student of life and a native speaker of German.

Things I find especially interesting are …

cultures, modern languages,
linguistics, writing, writing systems, typography,
learning, language learning, visual management,
computers, software development and modelling, software security,
history, ancient history, classical languages.

Here is some of that interesting stuff …

the Hedonic treadmill effect, human immanent tendency, that shows how unreliable feelings can be,
the Spacing effect, phenomenon, that shows how to learn efficiently,
Design Patterns, repeating code, that helps to structure larger software,
We Didn’t Start the Fire, a song by Billy Joel with a lot of historic references,
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, things I wasn't told in school—and I know there are a lot more.

I can …

communicate in German, English and French,
understand simple simplified Chinese and simple Spanish.

Cheers and so long for now,

—Recompile (talk) 16:10, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Misc

Pictures of amazing places

Panorama of Edo around 1866, made up of five albumen prints of Felice Beato.
The Kungsleden, a Northern Swedish hiking trail.
The Giza pyramid complex.
The West Lake in Hangzhou.
The Basilica Cistern in Istanbul—when half-full of water.
The Elbe river between Dresden and Prague.

My user space pages

My bookmarks.