[-] christopher@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

To install it on emacs 29 paste this into a scratch buffer and evaluate it:

(package-vc-install
  '(minimpc :url "https://codeberg.org/nmtake/minimpc.el.git"))

And put this in your init.el: (require 'minimpc)

You don't need Vertico or Orderless. I'm using emacs' built-in completion--it works fine.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure Android Studio has a search function for its menus.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

In case you're on Archlinux, the thonny 4.1.4-1 package in chaotic-aur unofficial repo works for me.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

For the ebook, install pandoc, then run this:

pandoc -f rst -t epub2 -o pkgsample.epub --metadata title="nedbat/pkgsample: A simple example of how to structure a Python project" --metadata author="Ned Batchelder" https://github.com/nedbat/pkgsample/raw/main/README.rst

[-] christopher@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Can you follow Dave Touretzky's book? The 1990 PDF version is free.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

My neighbor at the trailer park was a janitor at the university. I built my computer from parts he salvaged from the recycle bin, and put Redhat 5 on it.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

PulseEffects can moderate the high-volumed sounds too. It has a complex set of controls and filters, and I'm not a sound engineer, so I just followed someone else's recipe.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

My middle school algebra teacher sparked my interest in coding.

Due to moving around a lot, I never learned any mathematics, not even basic arithmetic before middle school. In the seventh grade, I was put in a class where the teacher just handed out worksheets with arithmetic problems, and then usually left the classroom until the end of the hour. On the rare occasions when she stayed, I asked her to teach me arithmetic, but she didn't believe I couldn't do it, so she never taught me and I failed the class.

But in the eighth or ninth grade, they allowed me to sign up for the Algebra for dummies class, which taught in two semesters what the normal class taught in one. My new teacher taught me arithmetic the first day, and I was his star pupil from that point.

He invited me and some other students to stay after school to learn FORTRAN. We did not have a computer at the middle school--it was at the university. We didn't even have a card punching machine. So we had cards that looked like punch cards, but instead of punching holes in them, we coded the Hollerith code in them by filling bubbles with a number 2 pencil. Then we sent the cards on a mail truck to the university and got back a printout a week later.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I don't have any need to edit markdown, but I sometimes use Marker: “Simple yet robust Markdown editor made with GTK” as a viewer.

[-] christopher@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

It might be possible to boot into a bootable image from grub so you don't need to set up another bootable partition.

Or you could disable your display manager in systemd. This will start in console, then if you want X just run startx.

Or you could change your display manager to Lemur, which supports X, Wayland, and TTY sessions.

Or you could just press control-alt-F2 at the login screen to switch to a console.

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