@VD15 I am a programmer, but there are a few friends I invited onto Mastodon who aren't programmers -- they don't use it regularly at all.

@freemo I saw that a while ago. It looks pretty cool. Although the software isn't entirely free, it is released under a nonfree license even though the code is available.

Otherwise it looks good.

So I wanted to see what free (libre) software had available for graphing calculators:
duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+
Hint: look for Microsoft in the results.

@freemo What is the main reasoning behind the account subscription feature?

@snder Huh? Monday? Why can't it be perpetually Sunday....

I am saying this since I am working on some code now and was making it poorly. Trying to make things "just work" mostly ends up with bad code.

Don't leave things up to rewrites. Write it well the first time (but at the same time don't be paralysed by trying to make it perfect, just make sure it is easily changed and well documented and tested).

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Programming is best done from the ground up. Don't build the UI first!

@freemo You replied before I even noticed there was a typo in my post.

It was supposed to be "new" not "net"

@miguel31416
Do you know of any good textbook on Spanish I could find online?
@freemo

@miguel31416
The problem with that is that my Spanish is mostly nonexistent. :P I know very little.
@freemo

@freemo
Maybe I will take advantage of that and use it to motivate me to learn some Spanish.

I see that there are now more Spanish speaking members of QOTO.

web.archive.org is adding more restrictions. I can't save a URL without JavaScript anymore...

@freemo What's a VM? 😆

More seriously, I have been working on switching to distributions which are more advanced with different technologies and way of doing things to learn more about Linux.

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