Lol hacking Fifa on Xbox seems to interest him :)

Interesting. Are you in the economics space or what do you use R# for?

No I just do ordinary C#, nothing particularly fancy. It accelerates my workby solving a few small use-cases and providing faster solutions for others. Rider is not bad either, as it's resharper as an IDE.

Wow thanks that eloquentjavascript looks amazing. I might just read it myself!

Yes, that one gets really into the weeds. It was especially great for me to comprehend the promises model in JS.

I used to do this. But damn writing articles for other companies can take super long and be boring especially if they come up with the topics. But good points!

"I felt too disgusted to hold any of it. Holding it would mean being part of the problem."

Lol what problem.

If people don't wanna see adds, surely they can just use a good adblocker.

Yes, "doesn't everyone use adblocker?". Possibly. Maybe that's why I didn't get more money. I certainly use an adblocker. But there's clearly some subset of people who will see the ads. Some company policy bans adblockers. Or someone's using a public computer to do some browsing.

Or they're browsing on a phone. There are fewer adblock solutions for phones, to the point where adoption is basically nonexistant (I don't have data to back this up).

So seeing as how I dislike ads, why would I subject anybody else to them, if the money it gives me is insignificant to me?

It's the golden rule. Don't do unto others what you wouldn't want done to you.

Nice. I did some paid articles for a blog a while back and some technical presentations at conference. Got me a deal at O'Reilly. You should try get a gig at O'Reilly. It won't be that hard since you got something with Manning already!

I got some very unique content that I think people would be willing to pay for. But very good tips thanks!

>> I’m privileged with a well paid job though.

No excuse not to make more money. You can start a business if you have more money and employ a bunch of not so privileged people.

I use a github pages site for my technical notes. Costs nothing to do You could use it to a host a blog if you really wanted to

Linux mint is really nice. I havn't touched it in a while, but it has everything as in codecs, easy to work with. Nothing fancy. Also the UI is great

I was looking for something really simple - like how the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum were to my generation. Linux Mint is certainly capable, but also more than what I need.

Not sure about your actual goals, but maybe start with something like Pico-8 or TIC-80 fantasy computer? Our 8yo son got an instant grasp of the command line this way; I think at least TIC-80 had a handful of standard Unix commands available as well (e.g "ls").

Next thing I noticed, our son was checking wifi availability on his own via 1) opening the command prompt in Linux Mint and 2) typing "ping google.com". Made my day when I saw that.

I suppose the relevant part is to move step-by-step, and to focus on teaching "Unix mindset" instead of specific tools. TIC-80 or PICO-8 are not bad at all for that.

Good luck!

There isn't really anything comparable - there's too much cruft and too many platforms, devices, and peripherals to support, so the simple close-to-the-hardware OS isn't all that practical anymore. Maybe one of the realtime operating systems for microcontrollers are simple enough? Parallax has some products that are fun to play around with as well as being technically interesting and quite capable (they're discontinuing the P2 eval board in favor of their modules, so you can get a decent deal right now, too).

Hmm maybe look at one of those kits where you build a computer out of a rasberry PI.