Hey, it's Lily, idk I guess I'm kind of quote tweeting you Dave cause I don't think other people are gonna see this but I just wanted to take this course cause it was interesting. Like there was this one project I wanted to work on but it was so confusing, it was like a sticker maker, https://st.ayaka.one/, and it's like a sticker maker for project sekai and I wanted to do like two things, make it so you could upload your own stickers (atleast if you're doing a locally hosted thing of it), and then since you can upload your own stickers do one for bandori, big overlap in the rhythm game community. But yeah, kinda interesting, I like the vibe of foss and opensourceness and like ffmpeg and cobalt cause they're both pretty cool, community effort to make something and not directly profit from it.

But, more on myself, I really like linguistics, it's kinda of like a passion from myself. Like I kinda like programming and you can make a couple bucks from it so I kinda leaned towards that without thinking more about it but like languages, both human and program, are kinda interesting. Like leaning on programming, there's like a C accent from what it seems, like with the variable names and stuff, if you're in like the C family a lot of your variables end up in a certain way, now, extrapolate to like a lot of stuff, like there's the Toronto mans accent and there's the Canadian accent where they're like from letter kenny and there's mangiacake which is something i've shockingly learned about, it's like a Italian Canadian specific slang used towards British people but from what I've learned about it it's sort of less used towards British people, like within Sudbury there's not a lot of British people, its just mostly Italians so they sort of use it against each other like banana or coconut for East Asian and Indian people respectively (i.e white on the inside but yellow/brown on the outside), but yeah, linguistics is pretty interesting, honestly, after bridging from this diploma to a cs degree I might try to get a linguistics degree or masters or phd, cause that's the main thing, I kinda want to do research work and from what it seems it's hard to do independent when you don't have a phd.

So, back on track, what I kinda want from this course is to be able to contribute to open source projects, like it'll probably still be intimidating but I'll have the idea or whatever. And I just want to work on stuff that I find interesting.

There's this one thats kinda interesting:
https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt
It's cobalt. The file saver.

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
It's ffmpeg. The converter thingy.

^These two, I just like them. Like in a looking up type of way. They get the job done and they're pretty good.

https://github.com/ppy/osu
I've played this game before.

https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU
It extracts pdf and puts it in a machine readable format, which upon writing now doesn't seem as interesting to me anymore, I just liked it cause I dislike pdf.

https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
There's this that looks across the internet that searches for someone based on username which is kinda interesting, I've done this type of stuff manually or by trying to use osint tools.

https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
This one is macosx in docker which is kinda interesting. Idk why they would do that based on my understanding of docker

https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify
https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
These ones aren't that entirely interesting to me but they're kinda ok.