I don't understand why youtube, sats.stream, twitch, etc don't have native screen record software. Why is this not a thing? Technical reasons, political, or just no one has built it or thought to build it yet? Odd that this functionality hasn't made it to the streaming world yet.

I'm finding it very difficult to learn Nix at the same time as learning another computer language. Nix seems to have to be learned first, but what would one do with it if one isn't technically astute? If one is learning another computer language as their first language they are constantly interrupted figuring out errors caused by using nix, sifting through minimal documentation, and a lack of tutorials. I was learning some different testing things in python, and now all of a sudden I'm considering how to package things in nix simply so that I can get my python to run. It actually does seem to make sense if one is trying to understand computing from the ground up, but nonsensical for those that are simply looking to build apps and outsource lower level things.

predictions on when wiki.nixos will have a dark mode?

I'm 82% through my intermediate level coding textbook (pretty sure it's intermediate) and there's still no mention of "SDKS". How recent is this term. Trying to get recent (aka relevent) textbooks in coding is more difficult than any other skill I've acquired I think. So "SDKS" are my new "Abstraction". Pretty much everything (if not everything) you see, or the average person sees on a computer screen is an "Abstraction" coders will say things like 'then you can abstract it out', and you'll hear about abstraction everywhere, but it's kind of meaningless in that everything is. It's used colloquially in specific contexts to communicate something, but it almost always means 'write some code to do a thing'. Only recently am I starting to understand it in the context of code...and it's always used in a "this is the way to not deal with some other BS" context. So yea, SDK's I get in theory, and I expect I'll be using one specifically soon for my project. It's simply "A software development kit"....but to be frank there's a reasonable chance it's simply an "uncompleted distribution" (or package). It could simply be a "UD", or "UP". But the culture has run with "SDK". Software still moves more quickly than anything I've seen. #dev #python #nix

#askdevs Comprehensive guide/s comparing lower level programming languages? A search is yielding nothing good.

#asknostr is there a service that holds all your lightning payments while your node is offline, and then puts them through when it comes online?

one of the oddities i've experienced when talking code with non python devs is them talking about functions, and me having to restructure things slightly in my head because in python there's mostly 'names', similar to function, but there's no functions I know of.

my new (recycled?) working theory is that the reason there are so many terrible coding resources is because the demand for good coders is so high people just try to throw spaghetti at the wall to solve the problem. A more simple solution to me seems to hire people sooner, for less money. If failing at this - I'd imagine you're in the wrong place, or not making enough offers. #code