This program was created in 5 days

I created a program in five days and it's pretty darn good. But I'm not done. I think the future of programming looks kind of crazy where a single person like myself can make something in a week or two that would take an entire company to make six months or a year worth of development. Now you might be thinking, "Oh god, here comes another AI video." AI stupid. It's never going to replace a senior engineer's job when it comes to programming. I just I don't see it. So, that's not it. It's a good tool, though. And how I use it is completely different than everybody else. Now, it's uh I'm going to go through my entire workflow here, and you're going to be like, "Okay, that's kind of crazy." And at the end of it, you might be thinking, "I can just create anything." And I'm literally to the point where I'm like, I absolutely think anything can be created. And during the middle of this, I'm using uh a Mac and I'm not using Swift to write a Mac utility, which you probably should do if you do plan on just doing Mac. But the idea behind all of my stuff on this channel has always been, hey, just make something cool that people can use that will make their life better. That's how the Windows utility became the number one PowerShell project I think in the world or at least in GitHub. I don't know uh if how you judge the popularity of a script, but this pretty damn popular as far as GitHub goes. Has the most stars in any PowerShell project. Uh I started tracking how many downloads we got like about a year year and a half ago and we're almost to 10 million. So a lot and it's used a ton and mentioned by pretty much everybody these days. and I usually dedicate some time every week to it because I use Windows a lot. And then the Linux utility, well, that's not PowerShell. And hell, it's it's there's a lot of bash shell, but it's actually the the foundation, the terminal user interface is written in Rust, and that's Rust is kind of a a difficult language to use. uh but one I kind of fumbled through and we got this out uh with the help of many contributors which I'm about to talk about. And then Mac util is something that I just started about five or six days ago and we're already to a pretty darn good point in the release cycle of Macutil. So what does it look like? You might be like how okay how good can it be? you've been doing this for for not even a week. Let me just show you. I'm going to launch it. And this is the utility. So, you select uh I kind of my my idea is to kind of pull a lot of things from wind util, but make it Macesque. You know, you have like this split panel with different opacities. I'm trying to match up kind of the Mac style of the settings panel with this. And you run the script. It would run the script, install the program, and then kick you out. Or let's say you want to fix Finder, it would go ahead and we'll elevate and then do all the the defaults to uh like a list view by default, change some of the animations, many other things like that. So, it would fix that as well. So, this is kind of where we're at right now. And I've also made this into a file. We're actually doing signing. I'm an official Mac OS developer and we even have it notorized through Apple. So, actually, I could put this on the store today. Now, having said that, there's still a lot of quality control and many other things I would like to add to this to make it more fully functional and and good for every Mac user out there and just make their life easier. But the question remains, why in the hell did I choose net frameworks with F? And the answer is pure hubris just because we ended up doing a lot of the the scaffolding for this entire programming using Sonnet 4 and then I kind of used two superpowers that most developers don't ever really lean on. First off, social networks, you sitting there behind the screen, chances are some of you know a lot about programming, probably more than me. And when I live stream this, whether it's YouTube or Twitch, I usually get a lot of people in chat going, "Oh, that's dumb. You shouldn't do that." Or, "Oh, you should look at this." And then it kind of helps it. It's almost like an AI correction tool built in using humans. Even more so than that, Git, I would say, is is better than AI because when you have Git and you couple that with open source on top of social networks, on top of what the AI uh basically spit out, you can do anything and you can do it fast. This is the coolest thing I think I've ever had and I'm just completely addicted to it. And yes, I did buy like the F in action book by one of the F uh communities. f.org if you're really interested in F#. Uh I think it's an amazing functional language. If you like C, I think F's a better language. I really do. I I just like less machine code and it's just more readable. It's just a fun language. And as I uh was writing some of this and also correcting some of the crap that gets tossed in here, I was just like, man, I don't know this language at all, but I really I can read it. And it's really an easy language to get. So, as I was kind of going through here, I was like, geez, I like this better than C. I like it better than Rust. I like it better than I think any language I've ever dealt with. Because I don't really count like Bash and PowerShell. it's kind of like its own thing language and then some of the web stuff, you know, HTML and stuff like that kind of like its own thing, too. So, I know I I dabble in all these things, but it's not something that I would ever consider myself competent or h have a level competency where you should hire me to write a program. I just I I'm not into that. But what I am into is showing the how this is leveraged through open source because that's the other thing about this is you can put these online and if you have enough visibility people will look at your code and send in poll requests and other things and then you can go okay add dragging functionality to title bar uh we can't drag this works on my Mac more usable uh I put linting tools in so understanding git And then even more than that, understanding like CI and and CD for continuous integration. Then you can actually have when people do contribute code, you can look at it and well, if it's failing tests, you know, hey, something's off there. Maybe this person doesn't know what they're doing. Let me let me look at it with a little bit more of a magnifying glass for that code. So then you look at it and you're going, okay, what are we doing here? Okay, this is just simple like CSS type thing, but pointer pressed on title bar, you can drag the main window. That's a good one. Um, and then we're also adding a new member uh member private this title bar pointer pressed object then begin move drag. Okay, I did I didn't know that. I didn't even know how to write that. That's that's pretty simplest code. But that right there just taught me something. So even with me not knowing practically anything about F and even.NET, I I've dealt with net a bit, but it's not something I'm competent. And then you you publish all this. It's just amazing. I wish more people did more of this and then understood all these things that encapsulate it. just makes me just kind of blows my mind that anything can be created right now. And it's just such an era of discovery for me. So, I know my videos have been kind of like all over the map. I talked about Mac and Windows and Linux. I still love all all operating systems and I use all operating systems right now. I have a Linux box spun up. I have my Mac and then I'm actually recording this on a Windows box. Uh, so I am using all of uh the the OSS right now and I do enjoy each one for certain things, but on top of that, as I get more into programming, I'm kind of just sitting here going, "This is just fun and I'm learning so much and and there's just so much uh that can be put up where most people are, I think, obsessed about creating like a vibe coding something and uh, you know, wanting to sell something like that I get it. I get that. But you could just do anything right now and and be able to create anything in any language. Even taking something more obscure from F into there is just fun. And I'm just kind of exploring all these different languages. And some of them speak to me, some of them I'm just like completely lost in. But this was one that I just started using and I was like, "My god, this is amazing." and we just made something that really shouldn't even be used on Mac or or well it can be used on Mac but most people would just never take this approach because it's so obscure and it's just like the world is your waster right now. You can do anything and and it's right there. But I would caution people against just relying on AI to to write the program or even the function. Honestly, it can't even really write a function all that well a lot of times. I would say Sonet 4 does a better job than all the other ones I've tried, but it's still not to the point where I'm like, "Oh, this is I I can just use this." A lot of times I still love that human element from live chat and also the uh just using understanding git and understanding all these things are huge for it. So I if I had to say something to a new programmer that you're starting to learn in the space, the very first thing you should learn and don't use AI, don't use anything, don't pick up a book, don't do any of it. Uh the very first thing you should learn is Git because Git will give you real life examples about hey I need to write a function. get really good at searching GitHub or Bitbucket or, you know, GitLab, whatever you want to use and search for code examples for what you're trying to do and look at other people's code, understand it a bit better, and that's kind of how you learn and then have like a sample project, something you're passionate about that you want to fix, that you want to kind of put in, uh, that would make your life easier, and then build it and you can do it pretty much anywhere. Uh so yeah, that's what I wanted to talk about in this video and and really uh you're gonna see more programming videos from me because I just really have fallen in love with this and I'm going to try and learn and get more confident. I'm I really want to be confident in F withnet libraries, believe it or not. I think that is just an amazing combination and and it's pretty agnostic when it comes to using it on any operating system. So I can use this on Linux, I can use it in Windows, of course. I mean hell everything I'm using in Mac right now is from Microsoft which is a bit sacrilege but uh do that learn Git first slowly figure out GitHub get those projects and be doing that you can use AI to ask questions and use it for like pair pro programming approach and that's good but understand kind of what you're doing as you go along and then be submitting those and the best thing about git which I didn't even talk about here is let's say I accept this right here and it just blows up my project. The thing about you can always reset to any point in time from anything any repository you have. So let's say you're here. You can actually go to commits and say hey I know it was working right here before I made this commit. You can just grab those commit details and just say, "Hey, this commit right here, grab the shaw get reset- hard." You can push everything right back to it. You can also just revert a poll request if you did it through a poll request and it'll revert back to that date or or just revert that one PR. So, there's just so much with Git that most people want to go ahead and jump ahead and do the AI thing. I would say learn Git, understand it. It's amazing. Best tool ever created. I think Lenus Torval's ch crowning achievement is git. Understanding and and creating that was better than his contribution in forget about Linux. Git is is the best thing he's ever created. I I just love it to death. It's just unbelievably awesome how how you can manage code with thousands of people and and do it seamlessly and then if you screw up it's like no big deal. Just revert to this point in time and then um build your thing and then slowly go through and then buy the book. When you find that language that kind of speaks to you, then that's when you get the book. But don't just go on Amazon and search for your most popular book. go to the actual organization the community behind it. So what I like to do when I was like man I really like F# I went to the organization directly and said hey I want to learn this and what books do they recommend and then they said hey these are the books and they kind of give overviews of each book that's where you should get your advice from not some random YouTuber not some random video but the actual community itself and most times you don't even need the book most of these books are really out ofd uh so and that's where I'm kind of like ah I'll go ahead and buy the book, but also do this. I I kind of take a scattershot approach. So, I don't even know if this video is worth making. I just wanted to say this is kind of where I'm at in programming. This is where I'm at using pretty much all these OSs and I'm just having so much damn fun from a a YouTube perspective where I just can do this every single day and I just feel like the luckiest guy in the world uh to to be able to explore and just learn new things and um do it faster than anybody else just because of uh having you watch it. So, thank you. And thank you to all my patrons, uh, YouTube members, Twitch subscribers. Without y'all, I I would just be lost and I would just be kind of punching around. Lord knows where I'd be. I'd probably still just be uh doing domain control crap for Windows and and managing Active Directory. Oh god. Oh, don't don't talk to me about NetDOM and replication and FSMO roles. I'm No, never again. Never again. I'm out.

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