Self Notes

Spacemacs recommends using source code pro as the default font, infact this is the font set in .spacemacs file. If the font is not availale it is substituted for some other alternative. To find the font in use do C-u C-x = on my mac it was using Menlo font. DejavuSansMono looks better than Source code Pro on ubuntu and I switched to it in my ubuntu system. A list of top programming fonts can be found at Top programming fonts

I started following the Django tutorials by arun. I wanted to know about the related classes and quickly look into docs for the things that I code, I wanted an environment that is nice to newbies, helping with code completion and easy documentation lookup. I searched and found a huge list of options. Since I was begining with Django I wanted an environment that is much easier to setup, my first choice was pycharm, but unfortunately the community edition of pycharm doesn’t support Django - see this.

I very much like the presentation of hackernews when it comes to understanding and making sense of the discussions quickly. It is a lot easier than reading pages of forums to get the main ideas of the discussions since the top comments and active discussions bubble to the top.

I wanted to run a site for discussing and sharing information that are useful for people working in techparks and the format that immediately clicked in my mind was the hacknews style. I began writing my own clone based on the work of people from hackerschool but it lacked the polish and look to make the people trust and even sign up, I had send invites to few of my friends to try but the turnaround rate was quite low.