DEV Community: Pandademic

Which do you prefer to write?

Pandademic — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:01:39 +0000

Good afternoon!

I'd like to know which you prefer to write more:
wren
or
lua
as a scripting language for configuration.
Like you configure awesome in lua.

Thanks for your response!

Pitch me on your favorite editor

Pandademic — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:27:04 +0000

I don't mean to start the holy war.

I just want to see your perspectives.

Please keep it civilized , I've seen discussions like this get heated quick.

(don't be like the photo , lol)

funny image: ok , I guess vim?

Pandademic — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:47:42 +0000

hahaha

how on earth does this work

Pandademic — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:06:45 +0000

was reading

t.me

so i tested this in the terminal via node:

([]+![])[![]+1].repeat(100).toUpperCase()

and it worked!?!?!?!??!

probably a dumb question but how does that work?
pardon my javascript , but it looks like a mess of arrays repeated 100 times in uppercase

this is dumb.

and ridiclous.

mystifying.

but also kind funny.

Webserve: a tiny , extensible web server

Pandademic — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:57:59 +0000

SELF PLUG
This morning I got tired of the web severs (details NOT) important on my windows laptop.

soo......

I did the most sensible thing.

I wrote my own(in go)!

It's called webserve

Pandademic / webserve

Fast, Cross-platform, One tiny little binary, My tiny little webserver

webserve

my tiny little webserver

why?

faster and more performant than the other webserver's I could find.At least for my tasks.

Usage

webserve DIR PORT where DIR is the dir containg the files and PORT is the port to run it on.

Known issues

1.0.0

shutting down a running server is a quite wonky proccess on stable , as in ctrl-c may or may not kill the server.The only way for certain is to close the currenly running terminal.

1.1

😄 none! 😄

Install

Stable

download the binary for your platform and put it in a folder avilable on your path IF no binary is provided , just request one via issues

Dev/canary

⚠️ CAUTION ⚠️

clone the repo and then run task buildall to obtain a dev (unreleased , possibly unstable) builds for all platforms to use

Getting Help

File an issue.

Licence

The Unlicense

This is free and

…

View on GitHub

(all details on github)

bye!

no not actually....

you really thought I'd leave you without details??!?!?!?!

I will actually

just check github

it's only 24 lines of trivial go code for you to read

actually bye this time

Printing Characters at a certain font size in go

Pandademic — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:55:53 +0000

Is this even possible??????

Writing a programming language for math in go

Pandademic — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:24:29 +0000

OK , ever wanted to make your own language?

Today we make our own math language in GO!

Lets dive right in!

package main
import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    code := "1 + 1" // the MATH -> source code
    selector := strings.Fields(code) // get all the different parts/tokenize
    firstNum := selector[0] // select the first part 
    operator := selector[1] // the middle part(the operator)
    secondNum := selector[2] // last part the second num
        /*
           We have to do a different operation based on what we got as our operator... 
        */
    switch operator {
    case "+": // Its a 'plus' sign ...
        result := int(firstNum) + int(secondNum) // The 'int()' converts the string we got as firstNum to a int
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    case "*": // So on!
        result := int(firstNum) * int(secondNum)
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    case "/":
        result := int(firstNum) / int(secondNum)
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    case "-":
        result := int(firstNum) - int(secondNum)
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    }
}

stage one playground link
But we have a few issues:

The conversion of string to int doesn't work
We can only add 2 numbers That's not good! We cant convert int's to string via this method so we use the strconv package. Here's how we do it:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    code := "1 + 1"                  // the MATH
    selector := strings.Fields(code) // get all the different parts
    oFirstNum := selector[0]         // select the first part
    operator := selector[1]          // the middle part(the operator)
    oSecondNum := selector[2]        // last part the second num // for conversion purposes it's an alias
    // Great but we can't add string so we Convert

    firstNum, _ := strconv.Atoi(oFirstNum) // it can't work it's magic on itself! 

    secondNum, _ := strconv.Atoi(oSecondNum)

    /*
       We have to do a different operation based on what we got as our operator...
    */
    switch operator {
    case "+": // Its a 'plus' sign ...
        result := firstNum + secondNum
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    case "*": // So on!
        result := firstNum * secondNum
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    case "/":
        result := firstNum / secondNum
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    case "-":
        result := firstNum - secondNum
        fmt.Println("Result", result, "\n")
    }
}

stage 2 go playground

however, there are still more caveats to this:

our language is not very well defined, and is prone to unspoken, undefined behavior(If you don't know what it is, look it up - a big no no), for example - it implodes without proper spacing between number/symbols
it can only do a set number of calculations(1)
and it again proceeds to go "boom!" on most errors, try replacing a number in the source that's computed with not a number and see what happens.

However, that's it for today, so attempt to fix these on your own for now, and hold while I ~~write another one soon~~.

edit: It's been over one year (🥳), and I have been on hiatus on DEV(I'm not going to explain it all here) and so this is on indefinite hold.Feel free to continue this in your own posts, and try and tag me(forgot if DEV has this anymore) if you do.

Ps: Thanks for reading

original published date: Valentines day 2022

Go : Creating a variable which has the name of another variables value

Pandademic — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 18:56:38 +0000

Is this possible:
something like

one := "Hello"
var {substitute the value of 'one' here} = "did it work"

I tried:

one := "hewo"
string(one) :=  "but this doesn't work either"

Do you know how to do this or if this is even possible?

Geolinux 1 : San-Diego

Pandademic — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:23:29 +0000

So this is the first of Geolinux...

If you don't what that is , check this out

Lets dive in!

VM CONFIG

RAM : 2048 mb
Storage: 35GB virtual

- OS: cutefish os 0.7 beta

Install

There wasn't anything remarkable about the installation , prettstandard branded Calamares . It took a while though.

First look

When I rebooted it looked like this:

Not my favorite look

So:

Customization time !

after some exploring I :

1) made the resolution bigger

2) make everything the medium sized Noto sans mono font

3) changed accent color

4) changed background

5) made dock icons small

after:

Package Management

Pretty standard apt , but I must say … I really prefer Pacman.

Also , -y flag was enabled by default.

A big problem was that standard things like git & curl weren't pre installed.

My Main issue was that the Debian 11 repo which Cutefish uses was extremally outdated . So when I tried to install neovim , I got neovim 4.4 !

Pro's and cons

pro's	con's
-nice ux	- DE still in development , has it's kinks
- system is nice n' small	- debian based
- well intergarted	- packages are severly outdated
- nice window management	- still in beta
	- not great touchscreen / tablet mode support

Overall cutefish still has room for improvement , but still one of my favorite De's.
You'll definitely be seeing more of the cutefish DE in the geolinux series.

Hope you enjoyed reading!

Geolinux 0 : Intro

Pandademic — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:08:58 +0000

Hey!

I've been trying to setup a nice Linux machine recently...

But can't find anything.

I have a bunch of distro's and stuff I like.

So ...

I'm going to test a few out on VM's , and name them after city's (hence geo)

I'll be starting with San-Diego (Cutefish OS) and all the way around back to California.

I'll be posting my up's and down's with each here on DEV

I'm planning this route for the first few:

San-Diego - Cutefish OS
Vegas - Solus

I like arch and know my Linux so I should be fine to explore .

This should be pretty fun !

Is goto all that bad?

Pandademic — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:04:08 +0000

What's wrong with goto?

2022 Resolutions

Pandademic — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:40:25 +0000

A little late I know

Here they are :

write more often
learn Lua/Vimscript for Neovim
swift
contribute more to open source (Goal : 46 more than last year .... So 100)
use a spare machine to use Arch without being on a vm