I am not a developer, but I work with developer tools all day. This can be frustrating, because a lot of tools made for developers assuming knowledge that I'm lacking.
Of course, if that wasn't the case there would be less need for technical writers and my work would be harder to come by!
In any case, After spending the last few days migrating my job's documentation to use the CircleCI 2.0 configuration, here are some tips I picked up:
I recently switched my personal file hosting/sharing to NextCloud, from OwnCloud. Among other features and improvements, it will automatically sort uploaded photos from my phone into folders by date.
This great new feature created a glaring contrast with the many years' worth of previous photos, mostly all in a single directory, some sorted manually by event. The process of grammatically identifying, sorting, and deduplicating was simple enough once all the tools were lined up, but finding them was not. What follows are the tools I used to get my photos in order.
Hi. Hello? Anyone there? My server broke, can anyone help?
As a regular IRC user, I've seen this message many times. I've also seen the hateful responses these intrusions generate. IRC is an older communication form (relative to the Internet), mostly inhabited by those who've used it for decades, and are set in their ways.
IRC is also where you'll find large communities of people all interested in specific topics, usually tech-related. If you're an expert on MySQL, Ubuntu Linux, Python, etc, you're most likely found in #TOPIC on at least one IRC network.
Which is why there are newcomers everyday, logging on to seek the wisdom of these software gurus. If you're one of them, this post is for you; the IRC amateur who's venturing to Freenode or OFTC for the first time to ask for some much-needed help.