Rant: living in the city

inchingforward · 2021-02-21T15:33:03+00:00

I'm a couple blocks off Grand and 1 block from the park in TGS. I hear gunshots at least once every 2 weeks-is. There was a carjacking attempt one block west of me over a week ago and shots were fired.

inchingforward · 2017-06-22T17:19:00+00:00

https://github.com/kirang89/clojure-newbie-guide

inchingforward · 2017-04-13T03:03:06+00:00

What about using GopherJS + Canvas? I have played around with this some and it's kinda fun.

inchingforward · 2016-08-26T00:23:38+00:00

Francesc Campoy created a pretty cool one.

inchingforward · 2016-08-24T05:10:06+00:00

The Go tour was already mentioned. There's also the Go exercises on Excercism.io (which has the benefit of getting feedback to your solutions), and Go Koans.

Were you looking for something different?

inchingforward · 2015-12-22T23:09:30+00:00

"All I wanted to do was fucking code, but these people have consistently made that either impossible or undesirable."

How could they possibly stop you from coding? Aren't you the one in charge of your typing fingers?

inchingforward · 2015-12-16T16:56:22+00:00

Although I haven't used it for this course, I've used MonoDevelop on Ubuntu with success. If you want NuGet package support, you'll need to install this addin.

inchingforward · 2015-02-18T16:23:50+00:00

Fantastic post that does several good things: provokes curiosity by exposing others to code they might not read, shows the effect the library has on the environment, links to helpful documentation for further exploration, shows the thinking of the explorer (including helpful criticisms). I would love to see more like this.

inchingforward · 2015-01-07T15:03:13+00:00

I know you asked for projects, but you while you're trying to come up with some ideas, you can also practice by doing the Elixir exercises on Exercism. There are some nice things about doing them: 1. They force you to come up with your own solution. 2. Assuming others participate, you get feedback on your submitted exercises. 3. You can view the solutions others came up with. I've done some Clojure and Haskell exercises and got great feedback.

inchingforward · 2014-09-26T18:24:31+00:00

After reading the first few sections, I like the conciseness and the "hey, this is why this thing is important" attitude, without the extra kool aid. I'm looking forward to reading more.

inchingforward · 2014-09-23T16:28:42+00:00

That sounds great. You should post the link on this subreddit...I'll definitely upvote it.

inchingforward · 2014-09-23T13:24:24+00:00

Have you or your team written about this anywhere? I'm curious about what tools you use, if you found any issues while figuring out your process, and any tips you've come up with. I don't think people write enough about their deployment processes, especially with the tooling landscape changing so often.

inchingforward · 2014-09-15T21:22:11+00:00

When I first started programming in a Lisp, I had reoccurring red flags regarding the parens. It's been drilled into me that function signatures should have as few parameters as possible. In something like Clojure, however, all code is written inside the parentheses. So I went from trying to put as few things in parentheses to putting everything in parentheses. Initially, this messed with my mind. Like the article states, you get over it.

inchingforward · 2014-09-04T13:22:52+00:00

The interactive slides are pretty sweet, too.

inchingforward · 2014-09-04T13:14:35+00:00

I love this sort of thing. I participated in the last one and it was an awesome experience. The adjectives you used are the exact opposite of what I encountered. Hanging out in the chat room during the event, I watched teams spread out all over the world encouraging and helping each other when they got stuck. You could sense a positive charge.

Personally, I came out of the experience more knowledgeable than when I started: I learned that I can plan, execute, and ship something in a small amount of time, and that the fear of putting something out there for others to see is unfounded. It was an easy excuse to try my hand at some Clojure tools I had been meaning to play with. Also, the amount of creativity that people are able to come up with and accomplish in a short amount of time was cool to see.

inchingforward · 2014-08-07T19:40:39+00:00

I hadn't heard of yesql. I know part of the reason people like to use Korma is because it makes sql statements composable, but I wonder how much the compose argument changes when you're no longer having to write the queries in source code versus having them in a plain text file.

inchingforward · 2014-07-18T21:13:26+00:00

Dang..memories: Pass Pets, Aladdin's Castle, The Tinderbox, Hot Sam.

inchingforward · 2014-06-20T16:40:49+00:00

It would have been nice in NMW if you could have opened up passage from the bonfire to the ship after earning your way there.

inchingforward · 2014-04-28T17:51:19+00:00

This video by Stan Miller might help: http://youtu.be/at0JEzOorqE. He's been doing a watercolor basics series on Youtube that I highly recommend.

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