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  • Has been awhile since I made this post. Created some buttons and basic functionality, but Rust has been challenging to me. It’s not a language I can quite “think in” yet. Python’s or C’s syntax make more sense to me, but it’s a user problem on my part.

    Never have heard of jetpack-compose, and haven’t looked at any mobile development frameworks. More interested in making GUI applications for a range of hardware, mostly legacy.


  • gronjo45@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlA quick question
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    Sounds great to add your own take on Unix topics. I really enjoy well-curated channels that go through more niche topics.

    Maybe some older history on peripheral driver development? How bus bit size, limitations of programming language semantics… Why certain design patterns were chosen due to contemporary technologies…

    I’d imagine with how small memory was back in the day, that it would be very informative to those who did not grow up with a 90s supercomputer on their desktop.












  • Someone is going to need to pull a lot of weight in planning, organizing, and leading these meetings, presentations, and projects.

    I’ve never managed a project before, but assume we should gather everyone who is interested by sending out some sort of survey. It would be good to have knowledge about what people are interested in learning, send out my ideas of how this should be structured, and ask for general comments. These could be about the final project, individual time commitment, references, philosophy of learning, etc. I’m thinking 8 weeks could be a good place to start. How should this survey be sent out to others? I want to choose a service that doesn’t encroach on user privacy since we are on Lemmy. The same is to be asked of a communal repository. I don’t want to use Google Drive.

    What would we need to do on our first meeting together?

    Saturday mornings or Monday evenings (Pacific US Time) are some thoughts. The sessions could be between 1 and 2 hours depending on the engagement.

    This is a what I mean by someone pulling a lot of weight, a teacher carousel has a slim to none chance of working out. One person is going to need to define and implement the vast majority of the curriculum. They’ll need to do a lot of research and work in advance.

    I’d like to ascertain this information in the survey if anyone with expertise in particular programming domains would like to lend their expertise and put together a short slide deck. Otherwise, I’m okay to deep-dive on topics we agree on, find a healthy amount of literature as resources, and brainstorm a way that each subtopic could be useful in the grander scheme of the project. So that there is some type of cohesive narrative to this endeavor.

    Hope that’s a good starting point.



  • Thanks for the code example. I tried going through web3 awhile back with HTML, but need to go through at least 60% more of the course and examples they provided on the website.

    I’m a bit confused on what a server is, past “someone else’s computer” or “another computer” or “a machine elsewhere that is able to take and receive requests”. When you write a “GET” request, is this pulling from another file on your machine locally, but still using the HTML framework and WASM to have “Piece of code 1” talk to “Piece of code 2”? And this all happens locally on the same machine you’re using?

    Currently I’m using the Kate IDE editor since Neovim made me hurl my lunch. Spyder was what I used for Python, but it can’t be used with more than one language unfortunately. I’d assume programs with functions provided by Electron are able to cache what they retrieve… Is the “server” downloaded alongside the application, therefore not requiring WiFi connection to use the application?

    Hope my questions aren’t too out in left-field and thanks again for your response!



  • That looks like a helpful guide to go through as well. I’m not too familiar with compiling/building/making (only the general notions)… In the past, I’ve abandoned programming projects because I got bogged down in the semantics of the documentation.

    Should I stick to drawing high-level flowcharts pursuing a “make this” Occam’s Razor type philosophy and just condition myself to abandon unnecessary pedantic details? Just trying to make sure I follow through with my programming project this time instead of getting overwhelmed!




  • gronjo45@lemm.eetoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comtitle 1
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    You just described the entire cycle of discovering Linux… Starting with something simple like Mint or Ubuntu, hearing whispers from individuals with large gray beards that Gentoo and Arch are better, and then all of a sudden you’re learning about lithography processing and kernel development all because a fucking peripheral didn’t load properly.

    “I’ll just figure it out”, he delusionally murmured as he typed out the 132nd acronym for the day… One day I won’t be stupid!