I think they’re just uncomfortable with the word “master”

1 person over at Microsoft complained, and they moved mountains for this person to replace master with main. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.

and that seems completely reasonable to me

No it doesn’t. Why does an entire industry need to flip over, because of a single person? Like the ability of changing the master branch for yourself should have been enough. Changing the default over on Github to strong-arm the rest of the world is disgusting behaviour. Which is why I’m sticking to master wherever I can.

especially when they’re people from a group which has been subjected to slavery.

That is literally every group… Every group has been slaves (and slavers) at some point in time. That’s not a good argument.

Haskell:

https://learnyouahaskell.com/introduction

It’s been a while since writing some (2018), but the concepts you learn from Haskell are great (though I still can’t explain Monads, even if my life depended on it) and can be applied in other languages.

Anyway, I can’t speak to BEAM, but Haskell is very typeful, it teaches you currying, very great language, awful tooling (but that was ~10 years ago, so I hope things have improved since).

Aaah, PHP. I’ll stick with GoHugo, but it’s good to know alternatives!

I tried Thunderbird. Didn’t like it, at all. Evolution is much more my jam.

NixOS isn’t great for non-programmers, I bet, but for programmers it’s amazing.

Wait until DHH finds NixOS, where we can configure everything via single configuration. Even multiple machines.

I love Debian for what it taught me, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever use anything else.

Expected git, got multiple programming languages. Nice.

How are the dataframe libraries on Ruby?

I like Bread on Penguins - very informative now that Luke Smith has turned away from Linux and towards Communist Philosophist or whatever he now turned into.

No colours? But how am I going to look down on the other three quadrants?

But for real, how did you make it? Hold up, did you screenshot draw.io? You absolute madlad!

I think it was Denmark and/or a province (?) of Germany

don’t come at me, pendants.

Did you do that on purpoise? :3

I don’t need reproducibility to the extent that NixOS provides

Alright, that’s fair. As a programmer, I’ve been having a blast using it - being able to quickly setup my laptops almost the same as my desktop is such a breath of fresh air, then being able to copy over most of my config to a WSL setup to employ nix to get there 90% of the way on a Debian or Ubuntu WSL system is just so nice.

But if you don’t need its features, or aren’t a programmer, I can very much imagine you’d rather stick to a more stateful system.

Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that’ll just distract you.

Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

This will be your Game Design Document. You don’t have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won’t work.

Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

Do not start caring about “what is the fastest programming language”. Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you’re learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

Having all your configuration hidden in ~/.config/, so you can have ~ all to yourself is nice, IMO. Just having a handful of folders (including hidden ones) makes things a little more readable.

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package?

Uh, just yesterday. Installed NixOS (with KDE) because I learned Debian at work, but am really missing the ability to track what I’ve installed via configuration. I like the idea of dotfiles in a repo, but want a bit more control like that for my OS.

Context: I’m a data engineer that writes Python. Python has pyproject.toml files (toml ~= ini files) where you can specify which libraries you want to use, defining which version you minimally, maximally, or just specifically want. And I wished that setup existed for Debian as well, but it doesn’t. So after searching I found that NixOS is pretty much the closest thing. Windows 10 is EOL soon enough, so might as well switch beforehand and not wait until the last second.

(Seriously what would you even have multiple computers do.)

Setup k3s (pronounces “kubes”) on each computer as a node. Run scalable software - a website, database, some LDAP setup for users, maybe.

Check out /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world for inspiration :D

Neither Curzon or Jadzia needed to fly an ugly flag to be themselves :^)

“Have you read your SICP today?” still rings in my head, occasionally.