swyxio

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

jbheren

This is how I installed https://github.com/phanan/koel on a raspberry pi.

Still, flac transcoding isn't working for me

install dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mysql-client nginx php5-fpm php5-cli php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-curl git

stowler

# It looks like -multiwindow mode triggers the static color visual in both the internal x2go xserver and the external vcxsrv
# But it also looks like -multiwindow mode is how x2go client allows resizing of the remote desktop
# ...so I'm looking for a way to allow resizing of remote desktop w/out triggering static color visual.
# 
# ...output of vcxsrv.exe's usage note:

Usage...
Vcxsrv [:<display>] [option]

:display-number