Notices by Lorenzo (ranfdev@linuxrocks.online)

Big props to the libadwaita team that made integrating the new Adw.TabOverview widget extremely easy! Nice API!

@alcinnz Taking an algebra course was probably the best thing I could do to improve my knowledge on how to render 3D graphics.

Understanding what's a matrix and how to use them is really essential.

Oh god no... I'm taking a course "Introduction to databases" and they expect me to represent time as an entity, with a table, instead of using the type "datetime".

I need to find a way to take this exam without feeling too much pain.

@alcinnz @RL_Dane @prometheus and some car manufacturers now want to ditch touchscreens too! They want to make you interact with the car using AR glasses and virtual buttons.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5V7_e-38ZsE&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Such a joke

https://terralang.org/
"Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language"

Types as first class values in Lua.
WTF.

Many people talk about 10x engineers, but nobody talks about 10x education.

I'm still wondering why we don't have state-sponsored education material comparable to the videos made by 3blue1brown (youtuber).

Any welfare state should invest in people making good educational material. And that material should be availabile to everyone, for free.

When studying an hard topic, a good explanation is better than 1000 bad explanations.

For real, even economically, i think that would be a huge long-term investment, for the entire world.

@alcinnz Lua is so simple, I feel it's nearly as elegant as a lisp. But it doesn't have macros...

Now I'm wondering... Is there a lisp with metatables and modules similar to Lua?
Ah right, there's https://fennel-lang.org/.

Now I want to build something with fennel.

Oh no... Javascript doesn't have a function in the standard library to check if a char is alphanumeric, alphabetic, etc...

Even C has these functions, although they are only for ASCII chars.

The preferred solution is to use a Regex. Seems like a joke...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9862761/how-to-check-if-character-is-a-letter-in-javascript