This is the best option. I recommend Nand2Tetris to everyone! It’s an incredibly well designed and executed course

Ooh, I hadn’t heard of Quarto before, but it looks really good! Thanks for mentioning it!

While jc is a great tool, and I’m definitely a fan, I believe the real solution to the overarching problem lies in a paradigm shift: see nushell

I wanna go to one so bad! But they never happen in my city…

It is possible to live on that, there are people who live on less than it. Personally all of it went to supplementing my Mom’s income so we could survive.

There are plenty of entry level jobs in India that offer those kinds of wages. There are more that offer less.

Yes, it’s exploitative.

I’m from India so these numbers might be a bit weird. My yearly comp has basically gone like this from 2017 to 2023

$0.7k -> $3.6k -> $4.8k -> $20k

Have you seen all the people just stuffing their profile README full of random graphics and stats and badges

Ohhhh, this site is a great find. Exploring all the articles right now. Thanks!

Unfortunately, no one can be told what a monad is. You have to see it for yourself (then you won’t be able to explain it to anyone)

eBPF is something that I’ve been exploring recently for work. I was quite blown away when I realized the true potential. I did find it difficult to get started, and while this article is a good introduction, some example code or hands on would be nice to have

The scenario is not ficticious. It’s taken straight from my first job, but I had to leave out specific details. The application being developed had something to do with DRM, so that might explain the weird requirements.

The lesson is that sometimes business will require you to force users to update their version, and/or enable specific features for specific subsets of users. So you should have such a mechanism in place before it is required, otherwise you will end up doing hacky things like breaking the server to do what needs to be done.

Systems such as these are actually fairly common in enterprise, but since it was my first job, I had not planned ahead for this because I had no idea.