I also chuckle every time I need to resize window by dragging an imaginary intersection of tangents to that rounded corner of some apps, that’s just hilarious.
I am entertaining an idea to acquire the same setup for recreational game development using older tools and libraries. Have you followed any guides or do you have any recommendations where to start? Also how reliable those older mobos? I have heard that capacitors are usually close to a malfunction stage, have you had any issues with hardware so far? Thanks.
I use win64devkit on Windows Vista. Modern and up to date devkit and at the same time very lean, portable and practical. https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/03/11/
looked it up, as a guy who knows very little about electronics, it is still an extremely complicated book. It ll be the equivalent of asking a guy who has never jogged more than a mile to climb mount everest. There has to be atleast one author in the world who has truly written a book taking absolute noobs into account for electronics and slowly but steadily taught them complex and practical ideas. This author is someone who introduces jargon only after explaining the concepts in the most non jargonish way possible
Forrest Mims books were great for me as a kid who wanted to learn about electronics. I'd recommend Getting Started In Electronics, which you can still buy new. There's a copy on archive.org, but I'd recommend getting a copy.. the hand-written notebook format is much nicer in the book than it is here in scanned form. https://archive.org/details/getting-started-in-electronics/m...
Sorry, didn’t mean to mislead you. Just remembered that this book helped me to get the basics pretty well when I was at the high school, but that was around 25 years ago, so my memories might be wrong that it was a “basics” material.
Lmao you really think Stripe is still running primarily on Ruby? Yeah it's good for prototyping because it's fast to write in, but unmaintainable as hell for a real business.
Nobody said they still run on Ruby, but it’s far from “RoR failed”. Other example would be GitHub, still runs on Rails. Shopify, still runs on Rails. I agree, less people doing coding in Ruby, I myself written last line of Ruby a decade ago, but saying “RoR has failed” is just not true.
I think it's funny to imagine the existential dread as a single unique instance of emotion that everything else feeds back into. Like - no, I'm not "having existential dread again", it's the same existential dread I've been having since the beginning...
Feeling absolutely the same way these days (with 10+ years of experience with JS). My current breath of fresh air is Go and Swift (despite the fact XCode is the worst IDE I have ever worked with before). Curious what’s bringing back sanity for you?
I'm using bash for simple build problems like building dynamic component lists, when bash gets too unwieldy I switch to python. If the build process is stable enough and the scripts are beginning to get long, I'll rewrite the script as a CLI tool in a typed and compiled language.
Rinse and repeat.
The only thing that's really missing to me is bundling, which feels like a bit too big of a project to tackle on my own. But my current projects aren't big enough to need that, I'll pass that hurdle when it comes. And I may have to run webpack as a separate build process through node, but luckily I can do that in a CI container, and keep my dev machine clean.
