For me, the some of biggest annoying about mobile app development is how the dev environment is space/RAM hungry:
- gradle folder easily reach 7 or 8 gigs per project (more external dependencies = bigger)
- Android/iOS emulator also need something like 7 GB (per device). Imagine if you have 3 emulators: Pixel 3 running Android 13, Pixel 4 running Android 14, etc etc
Also agree code deprecation is something often happen. Most of my experience is Android, and yes I've seen emails from Google saying something like "if you don't need this feature, don't call API X and use Y instead. Failure to comply to this within 1 month will result your app is taken down." Oh well..
The magazine I meant is Mikrodata. It's an Indonesian IT magazine, which was was closed few years ago. Until 2000-ish, the magazines came with CDs which has code archives from practically all Mikrodata contributors.
I started learning programming in 2002 with VB, so it felt kinda amusing looking at 90s DOS stuffs (Turbo Pascal 7, QB, TASM) etc
Looks like the Internet Archive has no content from this magazine as of yet! It may be that they have it archived privately and it's just hidden from public view, but you may want to write to Jason Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott (who works on the Software section at the Internet Archive) about getting this stuff backed up and archived properly for the foreseeable future. As an official archive and library, the Internet Archive is one entity that can keep copies of rare and fragile content safely backed up (and CD coverdiscs from old Indonesian magazines definitely qualify) without being restricted by copyright laws as most other people and organizations might be.
I used LaTeX for writing my undergraduate thesis (> 1 decade ago). Nowadays, unless I write anything involving complicated math expressions or something fancy like Karnaugh map, chessboard diagram etc etc, most likely LaTeX is overkill. Markdown is more than enough.
I still carry camera everywhere.
Since I'm into abstract shapes (not documentary/storytelling etc etc), I don't really care about "cultivating memories".
As long as you are willing to "see", usually there's something interesting to be captured. Imagine solving a puzzle. It doesn't have to be relevant to your daily life, but super fun, nonetheless.
Hot damn, that's such a cool piece of engineering that's worth its own post. I reckon hand coding a Lisp in assembly was commonplace in the late 70s, but these days it's like seeing an artefact from a long-lost civilization, as we've mostly lost those kind of skills.
And nice to see there's a new elinks alternative.
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