Link Diary March 2024
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- 100 hours to learn to draw
- Polymorphism advise
- Singing sand
- You cannot snorkel deep
- Liloo's costume
- Parent-child focus time
- Air has weight
- When money is an ancient concept
- Learn coding games in the 80s
- Eat the salat first
- JavaScript Promises
- Humans are not standard
Very old gaming magazines
After watching this video about gaming magazines of the 80s, I wondered if these exist online, as PDF or such. They do.
Archived 80s Computer Magazines
Where are the autostart programs in Ubuntu?
After installing pico, it always started even though in i3 I was running compton already. It nested itself in the autostart.
In the autostart folders you may find the .desktop file to disable (delete or rename).
ls -al /etc/xdg/autostart ls -al ~/.config/autostart
Getting started with awesome WM
i3 is practical, but most of the beautiful ricing you see seems to use awesome.
sudo apt install awesome awesome-doc awesome-extra polybar picom
Coding for Kids
After watching a video about why learning to code is so hard for kids, I looked up some resources how to teach coding.
Kano method: understand which requirements matter
The Kano method uses a survey to figure out what really matters to the customer.
Arduino beginner resources
I started taking an Arduino introduction course using the "Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino" board:
This is the IDE needed:
A video comparing 2 started kits:
tmux Cheat Sheet
Everytime someone lets me take a tmux session, I'm always like "How can I switch to the other pane?".
Video Picks
It's kind of inspiring to see what is possible with a consistent amount of effort. It took him 1 month, so 3,3 hours on average per day.
Actually good advise on when and when not to create interfaces or derived classes versus just creating objects with different values.
It's actually true that sand dunes can produce noise. And insanely loud also.
Due to the water pressure it becomes impossible to suck in air through a tube when deeper than 1 meter.
I did not know how came up with the idea for that costume in the Fifth Element.
He explains how to get even difficult kids to focus and how to interact with kids in general.
Some basic physics explained visually.
In Star Trek there's no money. But how?
These kind of magazines died out unfortunately.
Science explains why you should stay away from the appetizer bread.
Very nice visual explanation on how Promises work in JavaScript.
The human shape has so many forms worth exploring when drawing.
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