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Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#22Related interview from a few years ago:
Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding
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#23His code was a lot better when he was pairing with Matt Sharp.
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#24According to his `new-albums` repo [1]:
> I've been learning programming since 2015
So something he’s picked up fairly recently.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#25There's pretty good amount of programmer that are musician I think. _Correct me if I'm wrong_ but I think there's an interview with Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead that says he obsessed with computers and played around with BASIC when he was younger.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#26Related interview from a few years ago: Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217819
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Which made me remember that Cuomo is also a pretty good guitar shredder, not long ago there was an interview with him shredding along his favorite lines from Malmsteen
Cuomo can play
I say this as a guy who’s been playing electric guitar for over 25 years - Rivers is certainly competent on guitar. He’s not some virtuoso and he’s definitely no Yngwie. His real superpower, however, is songwriting. He’s one the best who has ever lived.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#28He was studying CS while touring. Here is a project demo he worked on.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#29According to his `new-albums` repo [1]: > I've been learning programming since 2015 So something he’s picked up fairly recently. [1] https://github.com/riverscuomo/new-albums
I know time is relative but I realized 2015 is 9 years ago ? Made me feel old.
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#30Interesting, he seems to primarily work on a Discord Bot.
This is at heavy risk for confirmation bias, but I believe that writing chat bots is one of the best ways for people to get into and enjoy coding, because it's fun and rewarding, and simple enough (with an existing framework to use) that just uses strings. For a large generation it was MySpace and the ability to customize your page heavily with HTML. I know a number of people who learned HTML for that reason.
Chat bots seem like the closest modern day equivalent (despite the main platforms making it harder with stuff like difficult to connect to the real time websocket and force use of webhooks). 10 years ago or so when Slack was new and had a gloriously simple API, I even wrote a framework that made it as easy as implementing one function, and you could receive messages (among other metadata like the username of the sender) as strings and send replies easily as strings. It served as an entry point for a few friends who had some fun with it and learned some ruby in the process.
Anyway, if you're looking to get into coding but want to do a "real" project (or something very rewarding), start by writing simple chat bots! If you need some ideas, these are simple:
1. Start with writing a simple echo bot that just replies to every message with the same message that it received.
1. Write a bot that responds to every message with a random number between 1 and 100. For a slight increased challenge, have it do fizzbuzz where the nth message received is the counter.
2. Write a bot that that will reverse the message of whatever it receives, so it echoes replies but backwards.
3. Write a bot that will lookup a word when the message sent is "define " and reply with the definition from one of the many dictionary APIs out there.
Go from there!