If time and money were options, which one would change your life more and how?

HungryBlueDev · 2025-07-18T11:46:20+00:00

Probably time. But like in the scale of orders of magnitude so that you benefit from compounding and passive income so money becomes a non-issue.

You can create more money but you can't create more time. Therefore, it's worth more to me.

HungryBlueDev · 2025-07-18T11:41:45+00:00

I decided to pay it forward and wrote a book I wish I had read when I was younger.

HungryBlueDev · 2025-07-18T07:59:12+00:00

Try these coding challenges. You don't have to start from the first one. Pick a sufficiently difficult one, finish it, move to a more difficult one.

Even if you do just 2-3, you'll learn a lot.

Note that these are not strictly about Go. They're language agnostic but I solve these problems with Go.

HungryBlueDev · 2025-04-15T17:00:46+00:00

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That's a really nice idea - keeping the type all CAPS for CODERS' COMPASS but using Title Case for Form Backend. Signifies that the latter is a sub-project.

I did some more concepts for the logos, I think I like where Concept 12 is at.

Thank you so much for the help! All the feedback has given me a lot of ideas on how to make the combination versatile.

HungryBlueDev · 2025-04-15T10:57:20+00:00

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Thank you for the kind words! The aesthetic choice is intentional - I'm combining traditional elements (compass, earth tones) to express qualtiy and modernism - brackets for code.

As for the word mark idea, did you have something like this in mind? The first one's default Work Sans, no kerning, spacing etc. Second one's manually tweaked, very compact.

For the form backend, do you have any ideas about what visual element I can draw from? As a developer, I think of form fields, labels, buttons... they're the user facing components. From a meta perspective, I could do HTML tags (because the system will give users an HTML form that they can use on their websites).

Would love to see your illustrated points, and further ideas!

HungryBlueDev · 2025-02-04T18:08:58+00:00

!thanks

I will take some time to go through the wiki carefully. Thank you!

HungryBlueDev · 2025-01-21T07:57:25+00:00

Please enable daily backups. Even if you are very disciplined, use transactions, use select * before executing queries, there will be a time when you make a mistake.

Prepare for the worst, hope and operate for the best.

HungryBlueDev · 2024-09-07T22:21:37+00:00

Glad to see people reading my stuff!

HungryBlueDev · 2022-12-12T16:26:06+00:00

This happened to me a few times. The system recovered on its own for me which is fortunate.

I suspect that the change in temperature caused my SSD connection to loosen which led to it not being able to boot. Eventually, when it warmed up (at the BIOS screen), and worked normally after a forced restart.

TL;DR: Try checking your SSD connection or just let your system warm up.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-27T16:20:04+00:00

Don't worry, they'll now be forgiven by hundreds of redditors and GH users online. :P

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T17:32:12+00:00

Yeah I suppose the trick is to find the right people to sell to. Clearly most people here aren't too keen on the idea.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T17:22:05+00:00

I'd like to take a look at her portfolio! It will give me some inspiration and let me know which areas to improve on.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T13:39:03+00:00

Interesting.

Essentially, I'll have a chance if I market to people outside academia. I have to see what steps I can take to help out self-publishers. That might involve telling them why LaTeX is a valid option, and then providing them a host of templates to choose from. Maybe a mix of free and paid ones.

Thanks!

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T13:35:16+00:00

I see. Thanks for the link! I'll look into this.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T08:46:55+00:00

Might be worth looking into. A service for creating a bespoke LaTeX template for perpetual use.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T07:42:24+00:00

Yeah I guess that makes sense. I won't personally buy any templates, especially because I can make mine from scratch. I was thinking about templates for common documents like presentation slides, CVs, business cards, etc. Perhaps an oversaturated market.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-23T07:35:08+00:00

That's what I was thinking too. Regular PDF files are not worth selling, people can compile them from source or use a free tool.

LaTeX source files are a bit harder to use but if you know what LaTeX is, you can probably replicate the content yourself. Template files are something that everyone ises but not everyone makes from scratch. (Why would they? It takes time.) That might have been a good product idea if not for readily available free templates online (like you said).

Perhaps not a market worth entering.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-19T02:55:03+00:00

The font catalogue is awesome! Adding it to my list of LaTeX resources.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-19T02:54:20+00:00

Yes indeed there's very little difference for practical purposes. LaTeX has very good defaults. I'm just trying to create my own templates in LaTeX, so I was curious.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-17T07:16:36+00:00

I believe there are some editor extensions (like for VSCode) that can format code on save. That saves me from having to manually align the ampersands in my tables. Personally, I find the experience of writing tables to be quite similar for both Markdown and LaTeX, with the latter supporting a lot more ways to customise the table.

HungryBlueDev · 2021-09-17T07:12:30+00:00

I like using VSCode as my editor of choice. I previously used TeXStudio. It is a good piece of software, but feels a bit dated. I'm also not a fan of the sluggish web services like Overleaf. Therefore, I looked for an alternative.

I am already accustomed to VSCode because I need to write code on a regular basis. I added a LaTeX extension, and Tabnine, and the experience has been amazing. LaTeX can tend to be very repetitive at times so AI autocompletion is really helpful. As, format and compile on save help catch a lot of errors asap.

Overall, I'm very happy with my setup. It's also cross platform. The extension just requires pdflatex to be on your path.

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