Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "You Should Write More Useless Open Source Software" video.

  1. This is incredibly validating to read. Today is the last day of six months of unemployment. Between job hunting I spent most of my time writing my own FOSS projects. I justified it as keeping my skills sharp, learning new tools and paradigms, and building a public portfolio, but mainly if was because I needed to write code. Thanks for sharing, Brodie!
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  2. This, so much. I love Granite (elementaryOS' GTK4 library) and really want to use it to make a graphical front-end for a Python library. But the Vala documentation is really outdated (and the development stack is really hard to set up on a non-Ubuntu distro), and the official GTK docs are barely useful for finding out what methods each widget exposes. So far the best path I've found is literally reverse-engineering existing applications that have widgets I want to adapt...
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  3. It's called poisoning the well, duh. 🙃
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  4. I have a tool called EnderChest that coordinates sharing Minecraft configurations between different instances and computers, and I purposely abstracted the sync interface so I could implement different backends. So far, I have: - file:// (simple file copy) - rsync:// - sftp:// (via paramiko) And I'll probably look at either FTP (samba) or MTP next. The amount I know about each protocol now is 10x what I knew going in.
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  5. Like a Minecraft modder or a Mojang employee? Because if the latter you're better off learning C++. And if the former, honestly knowing Java is a hinderance, as the way you have to set up Minecraft mod projects is pretty bespoke.
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