Thank you! I’m already familiar with REST apis, since that’s what I work on normally, so hopefully the learning experience will be smooth. Where can I find the dev matrix chat?

First off, thank you for working on improving lemmy, it is greatly appreciated. How does one go about helping work on lemmy? I’m a software engineer myself, and I’m looking to provide help during down of my free time. I’m not the most familiar in Rust, but it’s on my summer bucket list

Adhd is that you?

Oh man. I missed it by like a month. I graduated with my bachelors in December, and started in January. I was hearing horror stories from my new coworkers about how people had to cancel vacations to get stuff patched asap

You know, I’ve never implemented Conway’s game of life, and that sounds like an excellent way to work on a new language

Oh that is a very cool resource. I haven't seen this one before. I am definitely checking this out. Thanks!

Huh that's a pretty solid looking book. I did a quick glance through the chapter list online, and there is a fair amount of content in that. A solid book like that may be good for me to check out as well

Huh interesting, Parsing is always a fun exercise for learning some language features. I may try that out then for a good starting project. Thanks!

Personally I think the soundtrack for HoS was better too. GoD’s theme is a banger of a song, and I love the etherealness of the soundtrack

You don’t need to worry about your skill compared to other people. Just learn at your own pace and have fun with it! There will be a moment when stuff starts to click.

Plus code competitions are a completely different beast compared to regular coding. A lot of those are just practice and memorization more than anything

For sure! I'm realizing that i'm in a bit of a rut currently because I haven't had enough variety in my work, so I'm deciding to try and learn something new. That way I can also give myself a new project to work on

Dang, that's wild. there is some insane malware out there

Ok I may have to set up uptime Kuma. I have some services that I don't realize are down until I need them, and it gets frustrating

I second calibre as well. I also use calibre-web as my front end for it. It has a very clean interface and user management if that’s your thing

How come no speakers? Is it to prevent your ears from being blasted just in case, or is there malware that can be transmitted through audio?

There is a .sex domain I’m pretty sure. I saw some funny af ones when I was registering my own domain for my home lab

God there were certain subs that were just painful to use, even when interesting posts made it to the front page. The one I remember in particular was a mom made her kids a really cool Asian/Tokyo inspired cardboard fort, and you could tell it was really well done and probably made that kids week. Instead of the comments being about how cool the fort was, people were demeaning her saying “ah she’s probably a stay at home mom because she has all this free time”. Good lord, people on Reddit were miserable and couldn’t let other people have fun

Aight I’m going to have to get out of my lurking shell. Thankfully I’ve already commented more here in the last day and a half than I did on Reddit in months lol

I’ll probably contribute to the tech and programming communities since that’s my thing. Maybe generate some traction/discussion by posting articles I find fascinating

I am a software engineer. It gives me a good variety of work to keep myself interested, especially since I can work on different features and projects regularly. I have a lot of slow days, which can end up being painfully underestimating. Thankfully since I’m work from home most of the week, it gives me the opportunity to step away and clear my head/find something small to work on around the house.

I really love programming because i feel that I can understand it very well with my chaotic mind, even if corporate work is mind numbing at times

I don’t have any important data in my Linux I stand eon my pc, so I’m not really worried about losing data thankfully. I’m trying to find that Linux distro that feels comfortable for me. since I’m not planning on upgrading to windows 11, I have 2ish years to figure that out lol. I’m willing to give it a try though and see if I like it.

Server wise I’m pretty comfortable with Linux since I use it on a regular basis there. I need to lock down which distro I use though since half of my VMs are Ubuntu, and the other half are fedora lol. Makes it hard to standardize anything