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MUG Meeting – Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – 10 things you don’t know about Git

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Next Meeting – Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, 6:30pm EST.

Join the ZOOM meeting

This month, Wolf and Justin are going to be talking about Git. Specifically 10 things you don’t know about Git.

Many of you are already using Git but we’re sure there are some hidden gems within Git that you either haven’t heard of or just don’t understand.

This will be a great time to boost your Git knowledge and get your Git questions answered.

Also, as we’ve been doing the last several months, we’ll be doing a short presentation on a Unix/Linux topic. This month it’ll be the kill command and Unix signals in general.

One more thing… We’ll be doing the elections for the board of directors. If you’d like to come join the board, just let us know by emailing board@mug.org

MUG Meeting – Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025 – Advent of Code

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Next Meeting – Tuesday, March 11th, 2025, 6:30pm EST.

This month, we’re going to do something different and fun.

There’s a programming website called Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com.

It’s an Advent calendar of 25 small programming puzzles for a variety of skill
sets and levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

You can see the first puzzle at https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1.

We’ve rustled up a few volunteers to show us how they solved it in the following languages:

  • C++ – Wolf
  • Lua – Wolf
  • Pandas – Wolf
  • Racket – Wolf
  • Rust – Wolf
  • Perl – Jim McQuillan
  • vim9script – Jim McQuillan
  • Awk – Jim McQuillan
  • SQL – Jim McQuillan
  • ZIG – Justin Triplett
  • Python – James Peterson
  • Swift – Dave Satwicz

We should be able to get through each language in 5-15 minutes. Hopefully that’ll
allow enough time to explain how the solution works.

We’ve created a Github repo so we can collaborate and share: MUG-2025-03-11-Advent-of-Code.

If you’d like to volunteer, clone the repo or join us at the meeting and show us how you’ve solved the puzzle using your favorite language.

Also, as we’ve been doing the last several months, we’ll be doing a short presentation on a Unix/Linux topic. This month it’ll be the cd command and directory navigation.