add .gitignore

Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <crististm@gmail.com>
licensed as GNU GPL v3 or later

Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <crististm@gmail.com>
add the engineer's notebook

This notebook logs the development process and ideas.
It answers the question "what was he thinking?" when the code and commit
messages don't make any sense. To be effective, it should be updated
before new work begins.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <crististm@gmail.com>
add mission statement

Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <crististm@gmail.com>
choice of a language

Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <crististm@gmail.com>