MacBook dying drive, and books
Mar. 22nd, 2022 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starseerdrgnSo... I'm typing this from my gaming rig. My MacBook is sitting on my writing desk at the moment, with Disk Utility cloning my Mac OS X drive onto a spare 480GB SSD that used to hold Fedora Linux. The 1TB drive I was using is on its way out for sure now, and I'm not happy about that. However, it's better than the machine dying on me, so I'm not going to complain too much. Waiting ~2 hours for the cloning to finish over USB 2 isn't fun, though.
In other news, I've been grabbing a whole bunch of period books for programming on my little MacBook. And I have to say that, so far, I'm loving the books from Wrox and APress that I've found. "Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming" was a great start, but grabbing the "Learn {C,Objective-C,Cocoa} on the Mac" books was the best next step I think.. I also grabbed "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X for Dummies", "Programming in Objective-C 2.0", "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (Third Edition)", "Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X (Second Edition)", and a number of other tomes. Also grabbed "Programmer's Guide to ncurses" because I've wanted to putz around with making some terminal apps. And having them on my iPad makes things so damned easy.
(Also, no, I'm not learning Rust, and you can't convince me to. I'm just not interested in a lot of the more modern stuff.)
I mostly want to learn how to take older existing open source software for Snow Leopard, and maybe backport some security patches and features where possible. Adium, Vienna, LimeChat, and ArcticFox are the big ones for me, since I use them pretty much every day. I also wouldn't mind taking a look at Growl and making some changes of my own to it. Of course, making some themes will be a must eventually... I wanna work on something that isn't fiction, just for a change of pace.
Maybe once I can use my MacBook again, I can start on that. Maybe I'll even stream it a bit through my gaming rig. Not sure yet.
In other news, I've been grabbing a whole bunch of period books for programming on my little MacBook. And I have to say that, so far, I'm loving the books from Wrox and APress that I've found. "Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming" was a great start, but grabbing the "Learn {C,Objective-C,Cocoa} on the Mac" books was the best next step I think.. I also grabbed "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X for Dummies", "Programming in Objective-C 2.0", "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (Third Edition)", "Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X (Second Edition)", and a number of other tomes. Also grabbed "Programmer's Guide to ncurses" because I've wanted to putz around with making some terminal apps. And having them on my iPad makes things so damned easy.
(Also, no, I'm not learning Rust, and you can't convince me to. I'm just not interested in a lot of the more modern stuff.)
I mostly want to learn how to take older existing open source software for Snow Leopard, and maybe backport some security patches and features where possible. Adium, Vienna, LimeChat, and ArcticFox are the big ones for me, since I use them pretty much every day. I also wouldn't mind taking a look at Growl and making some changes of my own to it. Of course, making some themes will be a must eventually... I wanna work on something that isn't fiction, just for a change of pace.
Maybe once I can use my MacBook again, I can start on that. Maybe I'll even stream it a bit through my gaming rig. Not sure yet.
