In the programming world, if you say as ‘ I prefer watching videos, than reading docs’ it means you are a programmer already or you won’t become a programmer.

Do you feel that you are struggling to be a good programmer, even after watching 100s of hours of videos?

Let me share one secret. It is the fear of reading and writing PlainText. The more you go away from reading and writing, programming will go away from you.

Programming is all about dealing with the code, error messages, log files, documentation. All in PlainText. We have emails, tickets, docs, reports too there on the stack of IT life.

If you love terminal and PlainText tools, you are already into reading and writing. The more you read and write, the more you can get clarity in thinking, which is the essential part of programming.

To embrace the simplicity and powers of PlainText, few friends started to discuss in IRC. yes, the same 40+ years old Internet Relay Chat, an chat system which built the internet itself via chat.

Thanks to Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai, KanchiLUG, Kaniyam Foundation friends for joining the chat.

Read my post on why I like IRC here https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/why-i-like-irc-internet-relay-chat-even-in-2020/

Here is small video in Tamil by my friend Muthuramalingam of Payilagam – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGurYNb0BM8

From today, 7-8 IST evenings, we can discuss at #kaniyam channel at irc.libera.chat

I suggest a terminal based chat client “weechat”

But, for a quick connection, use this link to join and discuss. https://web.libera.chat/gamja/#kaniyam

Start Date – 21 Oct 2024 ( Monday to Friday )
Time – 7-8 pm IST
server – irc.libera.chat
channel – #kaniyam

read the chat logs here – https://ircbot.comm-central.org:8080/kaniyam

join and say something about you.

• feel like a hacker by chatting with people in your linux terminal
• get mentored on hactoberfest
• ask any questions on linux/python/programming/devops
• share your daily progress on learning and programming
• practice reading and writing PlainText
• learn slowly and strongly

See you at IRC.

If you are interested in mentoring students for open source projects, please join and start the discussions.

The other interesting channels that people chat are #ilugc #dgplug #emacs #kde #ubuntu  you can join there and participate on the discussions anytime.

https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/open-source-projects-mentoring-via-irc/

#emacs #hactoberfest #ilugc #irc #kaniyam #kde #mentoring

My Weekly Notes 08 2024

https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/weekly-notes-08-2024/

#Python #Go #ReactJS #Linux #KanchiLUG #ILUGC #Tamil #Canada #Kaniyam

ILUGC Monthly Meet - October 10, 2020 - 3-6 pm

#Indian #Linux #Users #Group #Chennai

Topics:
Introduction to Device Mapper
Profiling with BPFTrace
Rust

session is on #IRC channel
#ilugc in freenode.net

If required #jitsi link will be provided on IRC
All are welcome

https://ilugc.in/ilugc-meet-october-2020/

ILUGC Monthly Meet – August 08, 2020 – 3-6 pm – Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/ilugc-monthly-meet-august-08-2020-3-6-pm-lets-meet-on-irc-ilugc-in-freenode-net/

#emacs #magit #git #RegularExpression