Thomas J. Webb thomasjwebb

Basics of Programming

We're going over how to teach yourself programming, how to make it easy to get into working with code. There's nothing wrong with looking to search engines, stackoverflow or asking an LLM (large language model) for help. In fact, experienced engineers do this and we'll go over how to do these things.

We'll cover two programming languages. Beginners often worry about making the wrong time investment and here I hope to demonstrate that languages have similar constructs and paradigms in common and the more important thing to learn is those, which can then be looked up in the language you need to work in. Once you know a few programming languages, it becomes easy to learn new ones.

For this class, we will do a quick overview of two popular languages, JavaScript and Python. Both are interpreted languages that you can start playing with right now from your browser without installing anything. We will cover how to do that and also how to develop i

Jekyll with Faircamp

This is not an ideal setup. What would be better is to add some faircamp features and templates to jekyll and/or add more jekyll sorts of features like arbitrary pages and blogging to faircamp. Preferrably both so that people can have options. I'd be willing to assist with either as I'm familiar with both ruby and rust. I also have a separate music social media thing I'm working on. Anyway, I digress! Here is the basic, crude way I made jekyll and faircamp sorta work together so that I can have extra pages but use faircamp's generated output as the main template in jekyll for other pages.

Firstly, faircamp's output uses relative paths. That's a simple, logical way to make the generated output

I did this to transfer an OpenSuSE (Leap 42.1) system but should basically work for others. Partly going off the instructions here but deliberately not modifying the drives' uuid because I disagree with that approach (you might want to continue using the old drive for something else for one thing).

Boot into rescue system/live cd with current/old disk and new one both in the system. I create a directory for the old system and mount whatever partition looks like the right one to it.

mkdir old
mount /dev/sdc2 old

Coding Style for C++

Just reminders mostly for myself and only for C++ (not C, not C#, not javascript, just C++). Work in progress.

The first rule is if you're mostly based on a third-party lib, using their build tools, mostly using their objects, especially if you're using their stuff to generate code, then use their style and forget these rules (except where there is ambiguity). If you really hate their style then don't and make auto-translaters, wrappers, etc. The important thing is to be consistent within the project and with respect to the industry at hand (except when the industry has godawful norms that need to be changed).

Brackets

Replace all caps stuff

/usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.conf:

default:
    load pptp_server
    
pptp_server:

Define dynamic IP address pool.

Gender Neutral Facilities Aren’t on the Table, but They Should Be

In a clever inversion reminiscent of how the pro-H8 campaign ran as a no campaign, professional transphobes have laundered their unprecedented anti-trans legislation as a protection of the status quo, painting their opponents as degenerates bent on bringing us gender-neutral bathrooms and other facilities. Even neutral and trans-sympathetic articles are misleadingly running with an image of a gender-neutral bathroom sign.

It’s important to fight the misinformation. It plays into the general lie that conservatives only ever go on the defense against societal changes and never go on the attack. It’s important that people get that trans people are being harassed in ways they weren’t in the past at the same time as making gains

	/ link_to wasn't working for me in an app I updated from rails2 -> rails3 -> rails4 in a short span of time
	/ turns out I was missing csrf_meta_tags

	%html
	%head
	/ ...
	= stylesheet_link_tag 'application'
	= javascript_include_tag 'application'
	= csrf_meta_tags