Build Your Own X

I expected the same and was gladly surprised with this interesting collection. That being said, there's a link under "uncategorized" regarding the X window system :)

Likewise. I just listened to a BSD Now podcast on building the FreeBSD graphics stack.[1] They went into X and its history a bit so I had X on the brain.

But this list from OP is even more interesting! That list is a wonderful (mine?)field of rabbit holes! Bookmarked and thank you.

[1] https://www.bsdnow.tv/283

I was doing this and gave up shortly after realizing the network protocol supports endian negotiation and also some messages are still arbitrary endian

Was also expecting this but was very pleasantly surprised at what was there. It's a pretty awesome list of intermediate to advanced programming projects covering a nice variety of things.

Same here and I was thinking it would be a detailed guide to compiling from source.

me too! i was ready for a dark, spooky, deep dive here....

I've worked through a couple of these lists and a few of the projects. My take on them is that many of the tutorials are not vetted for quality or even completeness. I have several projects where the author of the guide essentially 'gives up' 60-80% of the way through, usually in the most difficult stage of the process, in what can be described as a 'rest of the fkn owl' result.

Also as someone who easily succumbs to analysis paralysis, this has made it quite difficult to motivate myself to start another one.

I agree. I’d pay for a "course" that assembled a massive list of practical learning projects like this into something that plots real skill/knowledge growth from beginner to advanced in a structured way.

Pick the one that seems most mysterious and scary.

It hasn't for me. If I didn't have any direction, sure. But if there's something I actually want to learn, it's easy to find a good source and then hold my nose to the grindstone.

Roll a few dice.

Too much choice can be paralyzing, yes.

For a Linux user, you can build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Different than your examples. But I just finished making my own "Mostly Printed 3D Printer". I'm a software dev but had basically no experience with Arduino or anything else related to the project. It made me feel like when I was a kid on Christmas with a new large Lego set. One of the most educational and fulfilling projects I've done in recent memory.

It was good timing too because the motherboard on my 3d printer just shorted out. I didn't want to pay the full price ($115) for a replacement board. So I bought an open source board similar to the one I used for my MPCNC. Since I had just put that togheter I knew what I was doing even though there was limited help in converting my particular printer available online.

For industrial-type things, there's Open Source Ecology (https://www.opensourceecology.org/)

A guy named Ben Eater is in the process of putting together a fantastic video series about building your own 6502, which was an extremely popular microprocessor that was used in dozens of popular electronics back in the 80s. You can buy a kit that contains all of the parts you need. Not quite the same format as the tutorials linked in this post but educational nonetheless.

https://eater.net/6502

Do you mean building clocks, motors, etc or using them in a hardware project along side e.g. an arduino?

youtube has a few engineers and makers, far from precise but still inspiring

Get a password manager?

Have a look at https://jameshfisher.com/2017/08/04/golang-dns-server/

DNS is actually pretty simple if you don't want to implement DNSSEC.

I read your article, and it's about reasoning in regard to design requirements. I'm curious to hear what you have to say. Would you please provide some explanation as to why programmers should understand building blocks?

> if you cannot create it, you are simply borrowing someone else's idea and treating it like your own.

With the understanding, of course, that this isn't necessarily a bad thing! Understanding is certainly useful, but if it works, then it works, regardless of who built it. Reimplementing, say, a standard library will make you a better programmer, but if just including libraries to do the heavy lifting produces a working system, then that has value too. There are only so many hour in the day; there's value in knowing when to just hand-wave the giants whose shoulders you stand on.

There is an X Window related post at the bottom of the page under Uncategorised.