balder1993
It could serve both as an explanation of concepts and references to the sources, just like Wikipedia. Ex: it could have pages about Kindle, about Chrome etc. detailing the privacy problems, the timeline of news about them and so on…
Sure it would be a lot of work to have a lot of information, but if it’s something other people can help contribute it could actually grow as a knowledge repository on this subject.
This has quite a lot of links already. I feel like it would be very useful to make some sort of “Wiki” about this.
Also… the actual good stuff has a good chance of not being free, or not being on YouTube—it’s just the reality of our world.
When you look for YouTube videos of random people, you can get anything, from good programmers to horrible ones. You can’t really require quality from strangers posting stuff for fun.
I also have a M2 Mac Mini. It’s my favorite computer among all I ever had so far. Being able to run Windows ARM on a VM and install anything I want if I ever need it is priceless. And I still keep Ubuntu and Arch installed on a VM just to play with them sometimes.
Yeah, saying “most GitHub users can’t live without a commercial entity” is such a nonsense. GitHub is successful while it works well. The moment it doesn’t, there will be other services.
At the same time, I feel like nowadays there's less forums or places people can ask help with, although today ChatGPT can be a good help with newbie questions.
Certainly one of the things is to keep building stuff. I’ve recently decided to write a small app (I went for a clone app because I don’t want to deal with designing it) and it has really forced me to learn SwiftUI (I’ve only used UIKit professionally), while previously I’d read articles without much reason to hold on to them.
So if you want to learn something, find a project that will force you to learn that thing, but if the purpose is to learn, don’t try to make it an “original idea” or something like that. It would only lead to procrastination. Find an existing tool that makes use of what you want to learn and try to implement it yourself.
The problem with Sublime is that it’s a paid one, and not everybody wants to pay for something that is perceived by the community as something that should be free and open source.
Yeah, I guess the idea of VSCode isn’t to be a “ready to use” IDE, but to be configurable — which it is.
The main thing that makes it popular nowadays is the ecosystem of plugins around it. Ex: when Copilot was released, I believe the VSCode plugin was the best one.
Also many frameworks docs have instructions on how to use it with VSCode and which plugins to install, such as some web frameworks and Flutter.
And I already have the next bubble ready: https://youtu.be/wSHmygPQukQ