mfs' nibbles

2022-04-26

Have started learning Go by reading and working through The Go Programming Language. Have finished chapter one. Thoughts so far based on my experience with Python and Rust:

Syntax is ok, fairly clean.
vim-go is really useful. The automatic import management is nice.
Surprised there was no set collection as there is in Rust and Python. Recommendation seems to be to just use a map.
The standard library is extensive. More like Python's than Rust's.
One example involved sharing a variable between goroutines using a mutex that was created and locked/unlocked manually. This was neat and I quite liked it.
I tend to run all examples using go run .... This makes Go more like a scripting language and allows for quick testing.

Thinking of rewriting nibble in Go as an exercise.

2022-04-24

I've always had terrible handwriting. Recently came across this post on penmanship. It compares traditional cursive with architectural lettering. Going to give this a try. This YouTube video goes over the correct way to draw each letter and there are practice sheets available to download as PDF files.

In addition, this site now has an Archives link to an archives page. Next up will be an RSS/Atom feed.

2022-04-03

I occasionally manage to lock myself out of my workstation for ten minutes due to three incorrect password attempts. This is due to pam_faillock. If I don't want to wait the ten minutes it's possible to login as root and clear the lock with:

faillock --user mfs --reset

2022-04-02

Currently working through a Blender environments course by Grant Abbitt and made a spooky corridor.

Spooky Corridor