MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:41PM (#19081790)

That's funny, I recently had the same revelation (that it's hard to discover these things) with engineering students in mind. I wrote an e-book called Digital Superpowers, covering many of the same topics you did. I added some general interest things on art and publishing too. I think I like your approach better.

Anyway, my list of topics is as follows, maybe you want to consider adding a few of them to your list?

Password Managers • 2-factor authentication • Virtual machines • Package managers • Command line • Routers • QR codes • Port forwarding • Python • Pandas • Onion routing • Ad-blocking • PDF reordering • Flow charts • Regular Expressions • Time-lapses • Encryption • Column edit • Digital photo editing in RAW • Audio noise reduction • Vector graphics • Making websites • DJing • LaTeX publishing • Reference management • pandoc • git version control • Programming • Web apps • Self-hosting • Home automation • Monte Carlo • VPNs, • ImageMagick • Linear regression • ffmpeg • Sphinx • Robotics

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:58AM (#19083838)

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Superpowers-readily-available...

That's the one?

EDIT: I guess it is, via https://digitalsuperpowers.com/. The list of topics is great, gonna check the book out!

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:59AM (#19085807)

That's it! Let me know how you like it. It's my first foray into writing books. Walking the line between utility and breadth is tough.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by fstarship on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:49AM (#19112084)

As a computer Science graduate with no experience doing images that section alone was worth getting the book for me. I plan on using at as encyclopaedia for future uses.

I am happy you had compatibility in mind as I am not super fussed on which operating system I use.

I would suggest adding a virtual desktop section as that has been the biggest gamechanger for me ( I use windows 10s with virtual desktop enhancer) I dont know any linux or mac equilivants though.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by jayjader on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:11PM (#19163580)

I'm pretty confident in claiming macOS and many Linux desktop environments natively support virtual desktops. It's really only Windows that doesn't.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:08AM (#19112140)

Glad that was useful, thanks for saying so! Great idea on virtual desktops.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:41AM (#19086248)

Bought it! I'll shoot you an e-mail with my thoughts once I'm through.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by fouc on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#19089260)

Hopefully you change the recommended tools based on the OS. (i.e. OSX would be slightly different from linux for certain commands). And focus on doing as much as possible from the command line?

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:19PM (#19089935)

I tried to highlight examples that are available on Mac, Linux, and Windows through the package managers, (homebrew, apt, chocolatey) and at least provided system-specific installation lines for each based on those. It is highly command-line and pure-text centric.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by freshcatch_ on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:10PM (#19082772)

this is insanely ambitious, and in a weird order

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:23PM (#19083004)

You're right. And "covering" is a strong term for the book. It only introduces them, offers a few exercises, and moves on. It's still 200 pages. It's intended to help engineering students (mechanical, civil/structural, nuclear, etc.) discover these wonders and then choose which ones to go deep with based on their needs and interests.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by bigmit37 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:41AM (#19083791)

Thanks for sharing and seems it would be useful for non-engineering students as myself as well. Going to check it out =)

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