Clojure, clj tools, figwheel-main, leiningen, sqlite, https, certificates, csrf, reagent, uberjar, smtp. For one app.
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#452I am taking this course[1]: Programming Languages. It emphasizes on big ideas behind languages and functional programming which is very interesting and enlightening.You will implement a type checker and interpreter through this course(I am struggling ML's pattern matching now but feel quite pleasant ).
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#453Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.
Cool. This subject is on my list and will probably approach it through Clojure's Core.Logic (a logic library inspired by both prolog and miniKanren) [1]
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#454World-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…
You would probably have fun building a hard magic system. Hard magic being a system that has strict rules for how things work. Soft magic being Gandalf style where how it works and how it's limited is unknown.
One thing I've been thinking about recently is conservation rules. are there any popular fiction worlds that explore conservation of e.g. magic? The only example I presently know about is https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/78 (search for "conservation").
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#455I’m trying to free my mind from the usual grind.
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#456I started before covid, but I'm learning Clojure, XSLT/XQuery/XPath 3.0, SPARQL, RDF* and SHACL. I look forward building a personal knowledge base combining all these.
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#457Music edition/production with Reaper: https://www.reaper.fm/ They've been so kind to issue a temporary free license to help with the isolation. Their license model is very liberal anyway, but the gesture was well appreciated. I own a Yamaha E363 keyboard and a Stratocaster, now I've bought a Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD soundcard and an Audio-Technica AT2020 mic to complete the budget home studio. Amazon.es is working…
A very cool, overlooked, and timely feature of Reaper is NinJam which is a way to “jam” with people remotely through a fixed time-delay.
It’s been around for at least 15 years, but looks like the author has recently started updating the feature again. Check it out!
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#458As a native English monolunguist I'm learning Russian. Rust for a side project I've just started. Music production techniques and how modular synthesis works. I also started skateboarding a couple of months ago after around a 8 year break so I'm getting my flat ground practice on my patio haha (although I'm taking it easy for obvious reasons)
Let me know if you have any question about Russian (email in profile) :-) And I am a Rust learner too!
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#459How to take care of a toddler from 5 AM - 8 PM while trying to manage work and phone calls. Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep.
I have a renewed appreciation of so much that we usually take for granted, chief among those are the contributions of our teachers and child care professionals.
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#460Django. 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.
What are you making? I like django, seems easier initially than something like PHP-Laravel