I was trying to learn bankable React, but ended up learning much more. Udacity for the first Typescript and React courses, but they weren't made very well. I started (gasp) reading the documentation for many libraries and followed a few rabbit holes. A couple of months completing official tutorials I got lost and frustrated.
What put me over the top was a Frontend Masters subscription. By far the best value and flat monthly rate for all. Superior video courses for React/Typescript, but also advanced courses lower in the stack for Node, MongoDb, and an advanced javascript course. They have others I want to go back to, like web audio. I also took the dev interview and algorithm testing courses, which were super helpful.
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
On a tangential note, did this guideline change recently? In some search results "e.g." changes to "things like".
Pirate metal is probably seen as "ironic," or maybe just too niche to deserve a top level genre (how many bands besides Alestorm are there?). Viking metal has a long history, though, given the Nordic roots of many extreme metal genres.
That being said, I don't think Viking Metal is too helpful of a genre anyway given the completely different sound of, say, Ensiferum vs Borknagar, or Tyr vs Windir.
They do? I see Folk/Pagan/Viking as one genre when I browse by genre. Alsetorm (sorry, don't know of any other pirate themed bands) has some folk elements so I think it fits.
How hard do you need to pull on the thread of this question when the author of Inform (and the linked article) has already said GUI users will need to wait?
Could anyone with this subscription tell us if it's worth getting? I'm in the software industry and do read books from time to time, maybe just one every quarter or something like that. Still worth to get the subscription?
I was going to reply "so worth it" but I checked my subscription - $399/year (legacy) now $499/year. I had gotten it when I was starting consulting and needed to read books per client projects, and could write off the expense for taxes.
Now, I'd have to say no. I read maybe one book a year. ( I "could" read hundreds, but in the end, I don't) I could buy the physical book, which I prefer, and 7 or so others and keep them, instead of a virtual library. Or get them from my public library. Or from archive.org.
The only advantage was the unlimited library and the auto-update of books from revision to revision. But your question has caused me to cancel the subscription.
If you can get it from library or university, I'd say it is -- but not unless you read a lot of books per year.
All I can say is it is incredibly useful, not just O’Reilly but they have got collections from a lot of other publishers. It is really useful as a reference or when you want to deep dive into something new. To top it, if you get to complete couple of books cover to cover, it is even better.
I can’t say whether it is worth the subscription fee. I have got my employer to cover for my subscription for the last 2 years, but not sure if I will be willing to pay it out of my pocket.
Membership to ACM (acm.org) comes with access to the o'reilly learning platform along with some other benefits and costs $99, so that's a pretty good deal. Have to admit I don't read enough to make it worth it though
> Could anyone with this subscription tell us if it's worth getting?
My local library has a deal with them: connect to the library's website, enter your card number, and get bounced through a proxy to O'Reilly's site to read any content.
Perhaps check if your local library system as the same deal.
My local library for sure doesn't have access (it has around ~100 books available at any given time, and because of lack of funding/maintenance recently had to give away their computers).
Since you do have access, could you maybe share if you think it's worth paying for?
> Since you do have access, could you maybe share if you think it's worth paying for?
It has been handy for a few things, but given the finite hours in a day/week I tend to not read tech stuff in my off-hours, so haven't used it much in general. Most recently used it for some Postgres stuff and IPv6:
Did you write a z-machine with sockets or is this piping to an existing one (frotz, etc?) I'm curious about the internals because I'm working on my own z-machine implementation too (not ssh though!)
:) Yes I'm piping to dumb-frotz. The ssh server is a custom golang server, not a 'real' ssh daemon.
Z-machine impl is fun (except for all the version differences)
There are quite a few edge cases going the pipe route since there is no defined communication protocol and every game expresses some things slightly differently.
I try to keep the code as generic as possible but nearly every game I try has had a surprise for me.
I really don't want to have tons of special cases in the code but I think some might be unavoidable.
If you're writing your own Z-machine, then you can write it in a way that plans for such integration and that would make a direct-linked approach much easier.
My 'ssh toy' has proven quite popular so far and I hope it has introduced IF to some new people.
Thanks and best of luck with your Z-Machine. Hacks and Glory await!
I'm sure you've read all the Graham Nelson Z-Machine specs etc.?
And seen the various alternative implementations like nitfol (which is a bit smaller than most and easier to read maybe)?
Yes! It's practically my bible now -- I even printed a copy through printme1.com so I can have a bound copy to flip back and forth through ( and dog-ear, tag pages, etc.) I reference other implementations and z-tools to gain insight on changes in memory, objects, etc.
I'm writing blog posts on my journey - detailing each instruction and any nuance with each one, as well as the object structure, z-text and misc. I hope to post it here one day.
