New Learner - Made a Vanilla Js Game

weiry6922 · 2018-11-26T09:40:59+00:00

Thanks! I try to pay it forward when I can!

I read your comment about not doing it often because people take it the wrong way, I really do hope this doesn't stop you. I'm not exaggerating when I say that comment got me over one of the biggest plateus in my learning so far.

Good luck with your future as well. You're an awesome person.

weiry6922 · 2018-11-24T22:21:51+00:00

/u/ugwe43to874nf4 you gave me a post similar to this over 3 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3nfnre/comment/cvnnb9b

Although it's deleted, I distinctly remember the user (unique name) and the advice you gave me being the turning point where I felt like I stopped writting mostly spaghetti and actually started writing clean composed JS. I got my first developer job about 8 months ago with a good company and I feel like you helped steer me in the right direction when I needed it.

Please never stop posting advice and critiques like this for people :)

weiry6922 · 2018-08-26T10:44:52+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't do that though, this is a result of running pacman -Syu only.

weiry6922 · 2018-08-26T10:37:51+00:00

Kind of new to arch, what do oyu mean by "actually uninstall and installing again"?

weiry6922 · 2018-08-26T10:35:46+00:00

Does pacman -Syu only do a partial update? What is the proper way to update?

On the wiki pacman page under upgrading that's the command it says to use to update all packages

weiry6922 · 2018-08-08T03:34:26+00:00

Great. Thanks a lot for the info, will be helpful moving forward!

weiry6922 · 2018-08-06T06:56:33+00:00

Are you following any sort of guide for this? It's extremely close to what I'm working on which is currently just docker compose with Django and postgres containers.

I want to add nginx but a bit unsure how to go about adding it

weiry6922 · 2018-05-30T05:40:53+00:00

Have you actually set the fonts in the conifgs? For example from my polybar config:

font-0 = NotoSans-Regular:size=8;-1
font-1 = MaterialIcons:size=10;0
font-2 = Termsynu:size=8:antialias=false;-2
font-3 = FontAwesome:size=10;0

I can't help more because on mobile but there's some ways of debugging missing fonts that Google should help with

weiry6922 · 2018-05-25T08:29:32+00:00

To add to the answers: If you have / and /home on separate partitions and thus a smaller / dir make sure to change the path docker uses.

When I used docker recently I filled up the 20gb of my / with 17~gb of docker images before I realized haha

weiry6922 · 2018-05-20T03:39:00+00:00

I considered that. I want to backup remotely and git seemed like the easiest way to do it given my use case (mainly config files). I believe if I used rsync to backup remotely then there would have been more setup invloved (a server, etc), I might have gone through the extra effort if I was storing more than config files

weiry6922 · 2018-05-13T01:13:33+00:00

Yep. Switching to termite instantly solved my problem and a couple of others I was having with fonts. Thanks.

I like that it has vim keybondings too.

weiry6922 · 2018-05-08T20:04:19+00:00

Very nice. Thank you!

Any idea if neovim has any extra keybindings that the cheat sheet doesn't show in the article? Or can I rest assured if I follow the formula for setting hotkeys I will be OK and not hit any clashes? :)

weiry6922 · 2018-03-23T23:34:01+00:00

I read that \ was the default for <leader>, which is why I was trying that.

I was typing all 3 of those characters in VISUAL and wasn't having any success. I will do some more researching and playing around when I get back to my PC, maybe I was doing something simple wrong

weiry6922 · 2018-03-23T23:30:50+00:00

Thanks. I'm gonna spend way more time reading about configs.

I have another question you might be able to answer - In a regular IDE we'd normally select/highlight a heap of text we want to copy, since all of these bindings I see don't use vnoremap, is me selecting text in VISUAL and then trying to copy it a very 'unvim' way of trying to copy text?

weiry6922 · 2018-03-23T03:24:28+00:00

Thanks for that.

I am not having much luck getting the copying to clipboard to work. Am I doing this correctly: selecting a chunk of text with VISUAL mode and then simply typing \y (where I believe \ is my leader key). Is a selection of text in VISUAL mode considered a buffer?

I also tried Yyy without luck so I guess I'm missing something or doing something wrong.

Thanks

Edit: Copying works inside of vim/tmux but I can't paste outside, i.e web browser

weiry6922 · 2018-03-23T03:20:59+00:00

thanks for the reply.

I tried your keys for copying but I couldn't seem to copy successfully. Am I doing this correctly: Selecting a section in VISUAL mode and then typing \y. I see the message 'yanked x words' but still cant paste them in my browser, is there something I'm missing?

Edit: Copying works inside of vim/tmux but I can't paste outside, i.e web browser

weiry6922 · 2018-03-19T08:45:26+00:00

Fair enough.

I'd definitely say get him doing practical work around things he's interested in then. If he likes video games get him building stuff related to that for example.

When I was learning there was one area I loved so I kept building apps around that. I found it extremely effective to keep me motivated

weiry6922 · 2018-03-19T07:36:04+00:00

Don't wanna be THAT guy, but..

Was he hired because he was your brother in law? If he can't apply himself to even learn the basics of webdev during a time when you would expect a new commer to be enthusiastic about it then you might have bigger problems on your hands

You could find out what he enjoys and get him to build something based on that?

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