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1   $HOME/.local installation with Autotools

Normally, project with GNU Autotools, you can build and install to specified location, for example

% ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
% make
% make install

Which installs the files to $HOME/.local other than commonly default /usr/local. On most distributions, you shouldnt have issues with /usr/local installation, not just the executables, but also the libraries, pkg-config, linking, they all should be configured system-wide.

However, its not the case for user home installation, you will need to take some steps to ensure things can be found.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig

CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/.local/include
LDFLAGS=-L$HOME/.local/lib

1   Making the video

Normally, this is the last one, but for the video, I bumped it up to first.

1. My record scripts

   • setup-record.sh

     Setting up terminal window for 1280x720 recording region, and adjust my primarily tmux window, so they wont overlay one on another, but this one for Raincat doesnt need a terminal window.

   • record.sh

     It records the video. I will choose the FPS, sometimes I need to change the size.

   • re-encode.sh and merge.sh

     record.sh records raw images if not with audio, so the raw video needs to be re-encoded before uploading to YouTube. If I record multiple parts, I need to merge them into one.

   • grabbing a screenshot for video thumbnail, typically the title screen if any.

2. Writing the description

   • titling the video
   • collecting information about the project, the version, programming language and major dependencies, author, license, etc
   • checking out links, RTFM again, etc.
   • putting all stuff together and write

3. Making a thumbnail

   If the screenshot already has the title in it, then just use it; if not, put a text overlay on it.

4. Uploading the video

   • tagging the video
   • adding to appropriate playlists
   • turning on monetization, set up record date
   • re-reading my description
   • double checking everything
   • pushing the publish button
   • checking YouTube video manager, just to be sure

2   Choosing one to make

There are good and suitable projects, but sometimes I dont have one in my queue list. It normally would be one I like and it has good and necessary stuff to show on video.

For example, someone asked me for a video for online casinos. Since I also play sometimes, I was interested in that, so I will tell you my thought process. Before you do any planning you need to do deep research about the subject. I won't get into programming part, just the theory of what the best online casinos have in common. First, you need to research what online casinos have the highest rankings from the players, have legitimate certificates and are safe for playing. You don't want to deposit in suspicious sites and lose your money. Then you need to find which casino offers most variety of your preferred game. Next is the option to play on mobile devices since many of you want to play from their phones or tablets. And the last one is the online casino bonuses, which can make a huge difference in your profit. For this point, I suggest you checking aunodeposit.com where you can find the best bonuses from all popular casinos.

3   Searching for new projects

I mostly search in GitHub:

1. gh-trend.py: it searches GitHub trending projects within the programming languages that I am interested in.
2. search results with my user script and user style for GitHub. I search for specific keywords every day, with help from my user script and style, I can quickly go through without clicking on things I wont be interested or already checked.

I also search with Google Image.

1   Rant, first

I know nothing about Haskell, but so far, after going through pages, I think its safe to say there is no such thing in Haskell world as package management, at least for GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler). You can install package using Cabal, but uninstall is a pain-in-the-ass, I thought Perl is annoying.

You can --unregister a package with ghc-pkg library package, not one installs executable but none of the actual library files are removed, you have to manually remove them or find some scripts to help you. And there is no --uninstall in Cabal, even it does install package for you.

Both ghc-pkg and Cabal are simply not package managers.

So, if your system package manager has Haskell packages, use it to install and uninstall system-wide. If you insist to install at user home or other places, then use Cabal sandbox. Or you can just remove the ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal once they have got too many junks, and start over.

2   Cabal sandbox

% SANDBOX=/path/to/somewhere
% export PATH="$SANDBOX/.cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH"
% mkdir -p "$SANDBOX"
% cd "$SANDBOX"
% cabal sandbox init
% cabal install <package|path>
% <command>

% rm -rf "$SANDBOX"
# cd "$SANDBOX" && cabal sandbox delete  # $SANDBOX still exists