It doesn’t matter what the project is; it matters that it is.

You don’t need to know where it’s going to lead. For that matter, it doesn’t have to lead anywhere. Nothing ever has to come of it. It’s ok if this project never even exists, as far as anyone else is concerned. Failure isn’t failure; it’s part of the process. It’s done when you’re done with it.

So whatever your side project is: I encourage you to pick it up, and let that part of you exist (again).

After reading Blue Period, Nina got inspired and invested time into learning how to draw, following guidelines from a book. She shared her learnings from the journey. Very inspiring! Can I draw? Should I learn how to?

Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress.

Learn and understand quantum computing with built-in spaced repetition. I really like this method of learning and would like to see more courses that use this method and tech about some programming concepts.

A few basic rules for buying and using computers can save anyone significant amounts of money and produce the confidence required to try new things with computers.

Knowing the consequences I want, what choice would create them? What big choice would nudge a hundred others that way?

Using static analysis, it finds bugs and performance issues, offers simplifications, and enforces style rules.

I’m gonna show you some weird timezones. In fact, the weirdest timezones.
To learn how their weirdness is represented in software, we’ll look at the raw timezone files that all software ultimately relies on.

Why you should use and write man pages.

Local documentation that is easy to find is so much better. And man pages are powerful.

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web - koodo-reader/koodo-reader

Website to create animation of your text using falling tetris blocks

A single-user “wiki” engine powering the ThoughtStorms wiki.

I can't get the noise out of my head. People who watch the video express awe and disgust. And that is why Dutch software developer Bert Hubert's experiment is so powerful. It doesn't really uncover something that we shouldn't already know. Something we often choose to ignore. The brilliance is

Однажды в конце декабря, когда воздух пахнет сгорающими над городом фейерверками, а улицы полны паникующих из-за цен на горошек, я решил научить программированию бомжа...
Фрустрация от когнитивной сложности — это то самое неприятное чувство, которое возникает, когда не можешь разобраться в какой-то запутанной фигне. В результате для любого человека процесс программирования переполнен страданием. Нормальный человек боль не любит и прогать бросает

What is git-annex, how to set it up to store large files in Google Drive or NAS, and how I use it to seamlessly manage a git repository of 20GB (and counting)?