tbirrell

Which do you recommend? Which is cheaper? Which has better longevity?

The easiest way to pick up a new language is to just build something in it. I'd like to learn Python because there are some things I want to do with it, but those projects are well out of reach of "just learning". Unfortunately I have nothing low level that I have any desire or motivation to build, so keep putting it off.

How have any of you solved this problem in the past?

In the event of an emergency where you lose internet access (natural disaster, EMP, stranded on a trip), what sort of information would you want with you?

Given how cheap SD cards are, and the fact more and more phone can take them, I'm trying to make a sort of digital survival kit. Something that has the information that I don't know, but would usually Google to find out if I ever did need to know it.

The problem that arises from that is that since I currently don't know this information, I don't know to add it to the offline storage.

If you have made something like this, what did you include? And if you haven't, what sort of information do you think would be good to have.

Some things I have considered are:

  - Basic woodsman/outdoors guides
  - Flora and fauna guides
  - Maps
  - English <> foreign language dictionaries (like Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Mandarin at minimum)
  - Copy of Wikipedia (a lite version, not the full 58GB)
  - Basic electrical guides
  - Basic plumbing guides
  - Basic vehicle repair (cars, trucks, tractors)

My primary note taking tool is a git repo full of md files that I access with Sublime. This works well for syncing between all my computers, but it falls short if I want to access my notes from my phone. Has anyone found a good way to sync these sorts of files with a phone?

I have some personal data that I can reasonably expect to never need again, aside from maybe just wanting to view it for historical reasons, but I don't want to just delete it all since it would be irrecoverable. How do you go about preserving personal files that you won't need but don't want to lose.

I was thinking of something like zipping it all, and putting it on a dedicated hard drive to create my own personal archive for this and other similar data. But thought I'd see if someone had already invented this wheel before purchasing the hardware for this strategy.

I have four years of professional experience in my chosen stack, but I'm wondering if there is a way to break into a different language/stack without going back to entry-level positions with half the pay I could otherwise make.

I am currently looking for a new job and figured since I have so much downtime, I might as well do a couple of freelance jobs. Since this isn't a direction I'm looking at taking my career right now, is there a different or better way of getting a couple of jobs than then longterm advice that is common on the internet for getting started in freelance?

If it makes any difference, my expertize is in web development. LEMP/Laravel mostly, with a smattering of the cottage village of technologies that supports LEMP.