Programming

Consider I only know apis are structured data that can be called or modified from within a program, and have no real further knowledge in real use cases nor in networking.

Where should I start from? Should I study backend?

I prefer docs rather than videos.

Need a quick comment

Recently just developed a tool/utility for windows, are there many free publishing sites?, I know about softpedia and apparently despite the age old UI its quite active!

Anyways just please take a moment and comment active software sites where I could publish

Here is my softpedia page if you have any specific advice regarding my particular project: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Password-Managers-Generators/Wifi-Password-Finder.shtml

I want to have a mirror of my local music collection on my server, and a script that periodically updates the server to, well, mirror my local collection.

But crucially, I want to convert all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them.

That's the one reason why I can't just use git - or so I believe.

I also want locally deleted files to be deleted on the server.

Sometimes I even move files around (I believe in directory structure) and again, git deals with this perfectly. If it weren't for the lossless-to-lossy caveat.

It would be perfect if my script could recognize that just like git does, instead of deleting and reuploading the same file to a different location.

My head is spinning round and round and before I continue messing around with find and scp it's time to ask the community.

I am writing in bash but if some python module could help with it I'm sure I could find my way around it.

TIA

additional info:

• Not all files in the local collection are lossless. A variety of formats.
• The purpose of the remote is for listening/streaming with various applications
• The lossy version is for both reducing upload and download (streaming) bandwidth. On mobile broadband FLAC tends to buffer a lot.
• The home of the collection (and its origin) is my local machine.
• The local machine cannot act as a server

Hello! Basically, I need to process a very large (4000 lines) file and free ai chatbots like chatgpt aren't able to handle it. I would like to split it into smaller parts and process each part separately. I'm having however a very hard time finding a chatbot with free API. the only one I found is huggingchat, but after a few requests waiting 1 seconds before sending the next one it starts giving rate limit errors.

any suggestion? thanks in advance!

EDIT: I also tried to run gpt4all on my laptop (with integrated graphics) and it took like 2-5 minutes to asnwer a simple "hello" prompt, so it's not really feasable :(

Hello there,

I am an experienced programmer. I can do C/C++/Rust/assembly/Ruby/Perl/Python/ etc.. The language itself is not a barrier.

The barrier to me is that I have never coded a single web or android application. I guess it must be surprising but I am more of a low-level programmer in my job (I develop a compiler backend) and I never really had the opportunity or idea to work on an app.

What would be a good starting point for making an android application?

A quick search got me this: https://google-developer-training.github.io/android-developer-fundamentals-course-concepts-v2/unit-1-get-started/lesson-1-build-your-first-app/1-1-c-your-first-android-app/1-1-c-your-first-android-app.html

Would it be a good starting point?

Side note: my app will not have to interact with any service. If I were to code it as a command-line program, it would not take me more than a day or two. The actual app would involve (for now) no more than a text field, a button, some logic attached to it - the hard part for me being to choose a framework to build it, "upload it" to my phone and use it.

I hear Sam Newman's - Monoliths to Microservices is worth a read.