thirty things tagged “guides”
How to Migrate from RaidZ1 to RaidZ2
There is the purposeful degradation of the pool but I don’t know how else one would do it without buying more disks for a separate pool entirely. Author helpfully provides a lot of links to places you can back up your stuff to (with prices!)
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This is a fantastic tour of a Hundred Concepts in Physics (youtube.com)
No math/equations. Just clear and concise overviews of topics. Made as a video to fall asleep to!…
Advanced Shell-Scripting with bash
Been writing bash scripts for over 15 years now. Learned a lot from this presentation. There’s also this advanced bash scripting guide I’ve referred to for a while now.
How Far Away is It
A cannot-believe-this-is-free collection of Physics videos on everything from Classical Mechanics to QM.
Learning Zig
By the same author who wrote The Little Go Book
The Art of Node
by maxogden
The Art of Node # An introduction to Node.js # This document is intended for readers who know at least a little bit of a couple of things: a scripting language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. If you aren’t a programmer yet then it is probably easier to start by reading JavaScript for…
BSD for Linux Users (over-yonder.net)
How To Be A Snob: Drinking Alcohol
by theferrett
Once a year, I spend $75 on a good bottle of Scotch Whisky and bring it to Karla’s birthday party. Last year, I brought Talliskers; this year, I brought Cragganmore. I break open the bottle, and ask everyone to take a taste. In this way, we can slowly get an idea of the difference between the vario…
A Guide to BSD for Linux People (over-yonder.net)
On Glyph Anatomy, Type Families, Classifications, Design, and more. (thinkingwithtype.com)
A Lovely, Illustrated Guide to Event Sourcing (github.io)
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Soundcloud Rappers
Vulture’s 2018 Guide to Soundcloud Rappers wherein they’re classified by name: “The Lil’s” (Lil Pump/Xan/Skies/Wop/Yachty/Uzi Vert/Peep), “The Adjectives”, “The Creative Spellers”, and “The (Almost) Full Sentences”. I’ll take this one.…
A most excellent introduction to SVG
All a typical dev would need to know really.
Unix as an IDE
I love this. There really is nothing (or at least very little) that’s new under the Sun.
A Good Vimrc
If there’s a TL;DR it is the second line: “Don’t put any lines in your vimrc that you don’t understand.”