Julia Evans

3 days ago

it's a new year and I spent my first workday writing a quick ★ terminal survey ★!

it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, my goal is to understand who we're writing the terminal zine for a little better https://s.surveyplanet.com/iiyhswqo

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3 weeks ago

I don't know if it's possible to get a good answer to this but: if you learned how to make websites with, like, users who can login and do things where the website stores stuff in a database, without doing it as a job, how did you do it?

I feel like in principle I know all of the basic pieces (HTTP, HTML, CSS, SQL, CORS, various programming languages, etc), but also somehow it still feels extremely hard to me

(no more replies please there are enough)

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3 weeks ago

also love how this podcast is talking about how important it is to be able to play/explore/break things in order to learn and how that can be harder for folks who literally can't afford to break their computer https://www.changetechnically.fyi/

she talks about modelling breaking stuff on her computer and showing what that looks like and how it's often not a big deal

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3 weeks ago

finally listening to the first episode of @grimalkina's "Change, Technically" and i love how she's talking about how incredibly common it is for programmers to be self taught in some way

"it's really radicalized me to have thousands of people tell me that they're the only person who's [self taught]…” https://www.changetechnically.fyi/

(I've had to teach myself _SO_ many things about computers even though I have a pretty traditional CS degree!)

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