mrcleansocks

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've done the 16 hour day for a music video I was directing. Low pay, but tons of fun. Wouldn't do it again though. I try to plan my shoots out much better now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I usually got down voted for opinions that I held on topics like cryptocurrency. There seems to be hivemind mentality about certain topics and going against the grain on reddit is not allowed. There has obviously been a lot of bullshit around that topic specifically, but I never took the downvotes personally, I just assumed people were being to dense to try and have a reasonable discussion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Album is fire

 

Hi all, I've been tinkering with programming for the last couple years as a hobby and am very interested in learning how to do it at a much deeper level.

I made an attempt to get deeper into it at the beginning of this year by reading some books and started with Eloquent Javascript. I got to around Chapter 6 and it started to get incredibly difficult. I didn't have a hard time understanding most of the concepts at a elementary level, but the examples and exercises that were utilized in the book seemed to jump up in complexity without much explanation at times. I remember spending a few hours on some of the provided examples where I was annotating the code just to help me understand blocks that were 10-12 lines long at most.

I'm not saying this isn't effective, but I guess I'm hoping to find something that ramps up at a bit more of a gradual pace so I don't feel like I'm stalling on one problem for far too long. Those moments can be incredibly frustrating and make the marathon of learning much harder.

I'd ideally like to utilize a resource that helps me compartmentalize the broader landscape of tools in the Javascript/React/Node.js world and then go back to a book like Eloquent Javascript and for further drilling etc.

That being said, I'm curious if The Odin Project is a good place to start? I was looking at the full stack javascript course and it looks like it does some Intermediate HTML/CSS which is definitely the skill range I'd consider myself in. For reference, I've got a lot of experience doing hobbyist server management with Ubuntu Server, Linux CLI programs, Unraid, Docker etc.

Note- I'd prefer an online resource that's free, which is why I ask about the odin project.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, I've just been buying the jars at the grocery store haha. I should get into stuffing olives or just pickling things in general. It's a thing I've always wanted to get into, but never really properly allocate the time to do that sort of thing unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lately I've been on a stuffed olive kick. Not proud of this, but crushed an entire jar of jalepeno stuffed Olives yesterday. Also really love doing Avocado with Balsamic, and regularly put that combo on wheat toast. It's a great easy breakfast as well as super healthy and delicious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't really dived down the customization rabbit hole for linux yet, but I've been poking around, and after seeing stuff like this tons of the stuff that was on UNIXporn, it makes me want to seriously try out some of the other DE's that are out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think people are used to a web that’s solely focused on viral content as opposed to deeply engaging content. For that reason people don’t think their contributions are valuable and decide to not post.

The truth of the matter is actually that real communities are dependent on the non viral content. So it’s important to reframe how we act in a more tight knit web community and treat it more like a party than a competition to have the most viral piece of media.

The sooner we can get back to casual conversation as a means for real community building, the sooner we can get away from the perpetual viral doom scroll environments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same experience here. Definitely feels high priority based on my experience so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is insane. If I had the space and patience, I would totally make something like this.

Did you follow some sort of guide on the web or did you wing it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow. I’m shook that you chose this passage. It was literally my favorite passage in the first portion of the book.

My jaw dropped when I read this and I took a photo of it and stored it in my phone. I have an album of excerpts for quick reference and this was one of them. Love that this resonated with you as much as it did for me.

And yes… all this through Lemmy makes it seem like it is truly the first step in our collective heroes journey. We just have to return to the centralized lands to tell of the federated and decentralized lands ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m a couple chapters into this book right now, and Campbell has some incredible writing. It may be a bit dense for some, but I’m really enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This band is for real crazy. Friend recommended I listen to their fingerprints album, which is basically just a bunch of short song nuggets that are a few seconds long. It’s pretty ridiculous, but really fun.

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I'm a musician and have been a musician for over 10 years. Only recently in the past 4 or 5 years have I really gotten into recording myself on a DAW and if I'm being honest, I've gotten to a point where I can really make some stuff I enjoy. It's not always easy, but I can get some pretty banging tracks going.

this sub-lemmy is the only music related community I've seen so far, but I'm curious how many Lemmy users are also music makers? I produce in Ableton and Bitwig, and do everything from Alternative rock to ambiance, film scores, electronic synth stuff. Not going to share any links though because I don't want this to come off as a self promotional post

Really just curious if maybe theres enough of us to warrant some sort of sub-community for music creation chat.

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