> how are you going to know about the grand themes unless someone tells you about it?
SJC grad here. The Program encourages you to encounter the works for yourself and see what _you_ think the themes/ideas are.
You’re lightly discouraged from reading the translator’s preface, since they share their own opinions. Different students bring different translations of the material, and additionally the language class that lasts all 4 years of undergrad is basically asking what translation is, is it possible.
I’ve used Fanurio[0] in the past and it works well. It won’t win any design awards, but it’s cross-platform (Java) and covers all the features without a subscription.
SCM Breeze[1] is one of the first things I install whenever I set up a new dev machine. Setting up bash aliases for git commands like `ga=git add` is nice, but SCM Breeze takes it one step further and automatically numbers each file in the git output. Then you can do `ga 1 2 5`.
"Everybody Writes" by Ann Handley is a great resource along these lines. Includes general writing advice and useful content-specific tips. For example, make the About Us page on your site not a dry description of the company, but of the company in relation to the visitor, giving more background information on how you help solve their problems.
Things like this and Formspree are great for setting up a one-off site. If you get to choose the hosting though, Netlify offers form submission handling as part of their free tier, with email/Slack notifications, API access, and data export.
Looks interesting, but a quick glance through the site and the primary GitHub repo doesn't give much information about the project. Is there any differentiating factor here besides being CLI-first?
https://abnormalreturns.com/