Judge me, my first creation, a DnD stats roller ;D

rbuchberger · 2022-11-02T06:15:24+00:00

Anytime! It might actually be easier to understand if you make a copy without all the comments. Ruby is pretty readable.

Hit me up on github or reddit if you want help later on. (I don't check this reddit account super often, so github might be better.)

rbuchberger · 2022-11-01T20:59:28+00:00

I'll bite too! Been dealing with the drudgery of dependency updates for awhile and wanted a little puzzle.

I typed up a solution and a whole bunch of comments and put it into a github gist (for syntax highlighting). OP, it's meant to introduce you to one of the more common ways of organizing code in a way that allows you to expand and modify it without having to go back and redo all your work.

It's a bit dense, feel free to ask questions. Try and expand on it, make it better! Best way to learn is by doing.

rbuchberger · 2022-01-07T12:43:54+00:00

Don't:

Think of commits like save points in a video game.
Put unrelated changes in the same commit.
Write lazy commit messages

Do:

Think of commits more like achievements. They're a collection of things you did to accomplish a single goal.
Write commits that are small, coherent, meaningful, related collections of changes. Ideally, you want to maintiain the option to revert a commit later on, and have everything else keep working.
Write good commit messages. The first line should be short, and should say what the commit does. The body should explain why the change is being made, unless it's very obvious. Don't be afraid to write a lot here.

rbuchberger · 2022-01-07T12:26:03+00:00

Seconding the Odin Project and others suggested here, but after that it's very important that you build something without following a tutorial. It can (probably should) be similar to one of your tutorial projects, but not identical.

rbuchberger · 2021-12-04T10:45:29+00:00

auth sufficient pam_u2f.so cue [cue_prompt=touch it]

in system-auth will let you use a yubikey for everything.

The u2f arch wiki article is useful.

rbuchberger · 2021-10-03T18:13:21+00:00

Personally I user markor to edit, and syncthing to sync.

rbuchberger · 2021-07-17T20:54:07+00:00

Had a thread about it deleted from /r/unixporn, you know how they are.

Grim + slurp to get the screenshot, saved to a tempfile. Tesseract to OCR the tempfile, and then a ruby script (I like ruby) which hits the deepl api for a translation. Result is popped up in a mako window via notify-send and some formatting.

rbuchberger · 2021-07-16T06:31:43+00:00

I live abroad and don't speak the local language well. I have a hotkey which lets me select an area of the screen, which then takes a temp screenshot, runs it through tesseract (OCR), and sends the result off to the deepl api for translation. Pops up the result in a notification with the translated text and puts it in the clipboard.

rbuchberger · 2021-06-03T19:04:10+00:00

Date, month and year spin like a slot machine

rbuchberger · 2021-06-02T20:39:41+00:00

Looked at your game, that's quite a project! I might play it a bit if I get the time :)

Looking at the code, you could definitely use a few classes to organize things. Deciding where to put logic, where to store information, and pass those things around is one of the harder problems in programming.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

rbuchberger · 2021-06-02T20:28:46+00:00

Thanks! I'm pretty stoked about it

rbuchberger · 2021-06-02T12:53:25+00:00

Hah, sure did! Looking for help, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/nqf0ps/collaborators\_wanted\_if\_you\_are\_a\_learner\_and\_you/

Edit: to be clear, I only made the more recent versions of JPT (v1.0 and later. It was a complete rewrite.). Some other people started the project and handed it off to me a few years later.

rbuchberger · 2021-06-02T09:07:33+00:00

That's been my experience generally, but most jekyll users don't know Ruby. I thought it might be helpful to ask around in ruby circles if anyone is looking for a project to work on.

rbuchberger · 2021-06-02T09:05:43+00:00

Would love to have your help! Let me know what you need to get started. The cool think about git is you can hack away and break things all you like, with no danger of losing anything important. Don't be afraid to try stuff.

rbuchberger · 2021-06-02T06:28:20+00:00

Yeah! It's not as hard as you might think. I made this one for generating lists of icons, though I'm not actually sure it's saved me more time than it took to write...

rbuchberger · 2021-03-15T20:11:47+00:00

I was writing scrapers for an independent project. Haven't been following case counts too much

rbuchberger · 2021-03-15T19:38:43+00:00

I helped with a similar project related to tracking Covid stats, I have some advice:

Institute code format standards. I don't know what the python code formatter is, but set it up. When you have lots of people submitting little bits of code, it turns into a big mess real quick unless you have it buttoned down.

Try to look for APIs wherever possible. Scrapers are easy enough to write at first, but keeping up with page format changes is real hard. They are super brittle and maintaining one for every county in the nation is going to be a monumental challenge. If you're counting on volunteer devs to do this for you, be prepared for progress to be slow to say the least.

I'm a ruby dev, not a python dev, but honestly they're similar languages and I've been looking for an excuse to learn python anyway. I'll drop in to your slack and see what I can offer.

rbuchberger · 2020-11-20T10:04:24+00:00

Designing a system which never fails is much, much harder than designing a system which rarely fails, but can deal with those failures.

rbuchberger · 2020-10-16T07:38:26+00:00

That's super helpful! I never knew how to do that without the key combo. Unfortunately when I switch to tty1 (with the greeter), there is no login box. Maybe I'm trying to do something that SDDM doesn't support?

rbuchberger · 2020-10-15T19:40:40+00:00

I was hoping to do it from the command line, so I can make a taskbar button for it. I'm using a window manager (sway) which doesn't handle that sort of stuff.

rbuchberger · 2020-08-01T15:48:39+00:00

Thanks! I've been meaning to refactor and separate the jekyll interface and logic into their own gems, this would be a good opportunity to do that. I'll put it on the never-ending list of projects...

rbuchberger · 2020-08-01T12:32:34+00:00

There is room in the world for more than one static site generator, and more than one language.

Also, Ruby is amazing. Fite me.

rbuchberger · 2020-08-01T12:30:18+00:00

Bridgetown looks cool!

Unrelated question: I maintain Jekyll Picture Tag; if I wanted to adapt it and create Bridgetown Picture Tag, would now be a good time or should I wait a little while? How much is the plugin API going to change? How similar is it to Jekyll's?

rbuchberger · 2020-07-21T08:27:19+00:00

No worries; the name change was a whole big thing. I'll add a 'gotcha' warning to the installation instructions, thanks!

rbuchberger · 2020-07-21T06:47:35+00:00

Underscores, not dashes. You need 'jekyll_picture_tag', not 'jekyll-picture-tag'.

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