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I am a self-taught frontend developer with a couple years of experience. Though software engineering is a broad term that may cover some aspects of what I do professionally, I do n…

Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The ending made me hyperventilate and cry out loud.

Is there a good way to kill time using your phone?

I’m learning a web framework by making a tumblr-like website solely based around movie screencaps. I’m planning to open it to public but I don’t want to get sued. Any advice?

Last month I decided to buy RunJS license. The price was a bit too high for me, so I contacted them asking if they offer any discounts for users from developing countries. They jus…

In Kazakhstan, we have debit card “ATMs”. You can have a named debit card printed out for you in a matter of minutes. All you need to do is to have it scan your QR in the bank’s mo…

I am a mid-level front-end developer at a startup. I am passionate about the product we are building and enjoy working with my colleagues. Lately, however, things have been stressf…

Speaking as someone who never had formal education, I recommend starting with Python. It’s easy and fun to work with. You can pick up basics of programming in two weeks. After that…

Hey, HN. A few weeks ago, a vertical line about 5 cm wide appeared in the middle of my Macbook's display. The colors inside the line are distorted in a regular pattern: whites are …

My musical taste is pretty underdeveloped and surface-level and that is why it is not bound by any particular genre. I can barely differentiate genres, to be honest. But from what …

Music has always been the least appealing art form for me out of the music-film-literature trio. Now I am looking to get more familiar with its history, evolution and simply discov…

I'll give you an example to make my point clearer. For the past month I have been reading Sylvia Plath's biography and works. I decided to document what I had learnt about her. I c…

Currently, I am trying out obsidian[1]. So far, I really like it. To be completely honest, it's one of the reasons I want to start a knowledge base. [1]. https://obsidian.md

> I've been thinking for a while that a (sort of) mix of the two would be worthwhile. Perhaps, that is a better way to go about it but that just becomes a glorified notes app.

Do you actually go back to your KB to look something up? I feel like having a KB is merely a way of reinforcing retention of new information.

For the past couple of months I have been entertaining the idea of starting my personal knowledge base. However, while this idea appeals to me as a person who likes to document stu…

This video popped in my recommendations just a couple of days ago. A welcome surprise. It made me think about how music changed since the medieval ages, not in terms of technology,…

Thanks for the book recommendation. Yes, I would love to have a PDF of that. How would I be able to get my hands on it?

Could you elaborate on how working with shell taught you to program?

Thank you for your advice. > what's actually happening is the shell is searching directories that are listed in your $PATH environment These kinds of explanations is what I actuall…

Hey, thanks for sharing these! I will definitely check them out. And yes, zsh is the default shell on Catalina, although bash and other common ones are available and easy to switch…