Production engineering (I'm an IT guy, mostly retired and dabbling in real estate, also a Tesla fan, I suppose).
Manufacturing is fascinating and I'd love to own a small factory at some point, profitable or not!
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#292I'm studying DS and Algorithms, I am a self taught developer and I'm trying to fill some gaps in my general CS knowledge. There's a project I want to work on but I feel a bit overwhelmed and don't know where I should start, I'd appreciate some advice here. I want to create shogi(Japanese chess) server, similar to lichess, the thing is that I've never done anything similar to this, I've been reading about web sockets,…
I built kfchess.com ( https://github.com/paladin8/kfchess ), which might be a helpful reference. It's by no means amazing code (I hacked it together quickly in my spare time), but it uses https://github.com/socketio/socket.io for real-time client-server communication. It's a relatively simple library to build on top of. As for the backend, I would recommend whatever you're most familiar with. It doesn't make that muc…
Your project looks really cool, I'll take a look at your repo, I'm sure I can learn a lot from it.
I am gladd you like my idea, there's a few good platforms to play shogi already, like 81dojo on the web and shogiwars on mobile, but none of them are open source. So I wanna do an open source version similar to lichess.
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#293World-building. After reading about storytelling, I realized that I'm as fascinated to a well-crafted world as good plots and characters. There's not much to read about, as a fiction world can contain as much detail as the real world. I'm spending time looking at the fiction worlds that I like and taking them apart. As an exercise, imagining places and races is also interesting. You'll be amazed by the amount of deta…
Yep! A recurring hobby of mine is writing about a not particularly deep universe I was fond of in my teenage years. World-building my own canon so to speak.
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#294The current COVID scene has given me a new sense of what I want to be learning, and I'm using the enthusiasm to pick up a few things that have been on my bucket list for a while now:
I'm learning:
- Spanish with Duolingo
Visited Spain last year for a few weeks. Loved the people, the culture and the food. And really really wanted to pick up a new language.
- Music production/mixing with Ableton Live
This has been something I've wanted to play with for a very long time, and thankfully there are so many resources on the internet to get started. Music has always been a constant part of my life, and production is basically coding with notes and sounds! :)
- Just started getting my beak wet with investing in the stock market
I've always been skeptical of investing my $$$ in the stock market, more so being the first generation in my family earning enough to afford (what my parents would call) "luxuries". But I want to be more invested (literally and figuratively) in making my money work for me. Thankfully, have built up more savings than I need for years and given the stock market scene right now, it feels like the right time to dip my feet in for the long term.
I dunno how much of this will last over the next few months, especially once we start going back to office to work (I'm a person who LOVES going to office even though we have unlimited WFH), but one can hope! :)
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#295I'm studying DS and Algorithms, I am a self taught developer and I'm trying to fill some gaps in my general CS knowledge. There's a project I want to work on but I feel a bit overwhelmed and don't know where I should start, I'd appreciate some advice here. I want to create shogi(Japanese chess) server, similar to lichess, the thing is that I've never done anything similar to this, I've been reading about web sockets,…
I think Elixir would be an excellent choice. Once you have a sip, you’ll never want to go back. Might I recommend this book: https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-... there might be some overlap with your Shogi game idea to get you started.
Thank you for the book, I'll take a look at it.
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#296Django. I'm building a side project to help learn it. I've been wanting to spend more time on side projects and now seems like a good opportunity to dive into them.
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#297I'm porting Rodrigo Pombo's wonderful Build your own React[1] code to Clojure(script). It really helps understand what's going on under the hood. The goal is to replace a half-assed React-like implementation I currently have with something that works much better. [1] https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/
I’ve been looking for a good real world project that uses Clojure to learn. I’ve only written basic backend services with it but love it.
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#298Reading SICP[0] while taking the original MIT 6.001 course online[1]. I'm hoping to develop a DSL for certain applications in government and law someday.
[0] The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman
[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
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#300Learning a lot about CTFs and pentesting, most through tryhackme.com
Highly recommend it