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I've told many people over the years this: If you ever get stuck or you're bored, open the repl and just learn something that you didn't already know. Then wri
by adenozine 5y ago
I've told many people over the years this:
If you ever get stuck or you're bored, open the repl and just learn something that you didn't already know. Then write it down somewhere, on real paper, and keep it.
I'm not ashamed to say I still do this. I've got probably 3 dozen pages in an old composition book of little perl/bash/python/jq tidbits. It's amazing how much detail is in the little tools we use everyday.
Factorio is cool, but it's just not very productive. There's that translation layer between the game and real code for real life.
- tartoran 5y agoI do the same think with Racket, and what’s really cool about its Repl is that it supports displaying all sorts of objects and it’s fun building images and graphics this way and it is immediately rewarding. But it is still a procrastinauon of some sort