Friday, December 18, 2020

Writing Space!!!!!!!!!!!

Spent a good part of the morning working on the VSCode Extension to automatically create days. You can see how this went.

Now I am going to take a break from that and do some thinking. Not sure where to put this yet.

Videos

There are quite a few videos or series I’d like to make. Just to explore about computers.

• Beginners Guide to React + TypeScript (Multipart?)
  • [references] Beginners Guide to Web Development
    • Front-End
      • Purpose: Display information to the user
      • Done via Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, CSS
      • JS Frameworks: React, Vue.js, ,etc
      • CSS Frameworks: Basic, Tailwind,
    • Back-End (nginx, apache, lighthttpd, sql, postgres, mongo, firebase, graphql, clojure)
  • [references] Web Development Tools
  • What is React?
  • Why TypeScript?
  • Setting up an environment, with explanation
    • what the hell is npm/yarn/webpack
    • basic environment explanation
    • node_modules
    • package.json
  • How to Style
    • scoped css file
    • global css file
    • inline styling
    • class styling
    • variable styling
  • “Component” architecture
  • etc… continue after lunch
• C: The Foundation of Modern Programming
  • Explore how it maps to instructions
  • How it maps to memory
  • Pointers
    • function pointers
    • double pointers
      • returning pointers to something from a function
• What is a computer? How do computers work?
  • This would be a fun challenge and test my own knowledge and fundamentals. Nearly infinite areas to explore.
• Cool technologies and tools
  • vim
  • tmux
  • package managers
• For now stick with things that are concrete. Then can move to opinion later.
  • Even things like the history are fun to research, and maybe more interesting on their own.
  • Would like to mix in opinions later. Where the industry is going. Where I would like to see it go.
    • Fun things that are going on. AR. AI, etc.
    • What can Apple do?
    • What is the future of the internet?
    • Better privacy?
    • These things matter, but need a little awareness I feel.