I lost enthusiasm and then my interest slowly came back as I wanted to learn things. Just in case you haven’t seen this page, I thought it was really cool when I read it years ago: https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

Is there a course or a book that you are following or did you just dive in?

Thanks, the banking app works!

Learning Rust is a journey. I actually gave up twice before I learnt it properly. I built a simple interpreter as my first project and I found it challenging.

I think that tutorials, and the support you get, is much better now though. Its also a language well worth learning.

I find daily is better than weekly because I can actually remember what I was doing. However, it is mostly just a few hours each weekend for me a the moment.

I like the look of SailfishOS but there is the Ryanair app and a Banking app that I am sure will not work on it. Sometime in the future, I will probably have two phones, one for difficult apps and one with an OS that respects the user.

I haven’t used Kotlin for years but I did do a $WORK project in it once. I prefer co-routines in Kotlin to using async in Rust (which makes sense because it is a higher level language with a garbage collector). I also like how easy it is to write Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) in Kotlin.

Good luck with the job search. Its hard out there at the moment.

I got interested in constraint programming, and I had NO idea how it worked. It seemed like magic.

I have started on following the slides and code of MiniCP, and have started implementing the first steps in Rust. I find it very challenging but it is a great learning experience. I got such a thrill from solving the N-Queens problem in milliseconds from a program that I had written myself.

I am continuing to develop the implementation for a few hours this weekend. Because writing a constraint system is hard, I am also learning some new parts of Rust that I have not touched before.

I do this for sites where I don’t care at all about security. One minor tip, that will protect against automated attacks if the password is cracked, is to add part of the website name into the password (e.g “mystrongp4ss!lemworld”) .

A human could easily crack it, but automated systems that replay the password on different sites would probably not bother to calculate the pattern.