Up to this point my Learn Emacs series has been all about how to do cool stuff in emacs. One of my personal favorites is align-regexp. A while back that stopped working for me. Now I get an error: Wrong type argument: markerp, 0. Emacs doesn't always do what I mean.

I've got some ideas on how you can improve your programming by not programming. Try something new this year.

I recently built a gaming pc from parts, as my laptop was struggling to run the latest games even on very low settings. I did some googling and came to the obvious conclusion that building a desktop for gaming is way cheaper than trying to buy a new laptop, and the desktop gets way better performance. In fact, this makes it so that I can stretch my laptop for a few more years, as it's only used for web programming at the moment (and it's plenty fast due to its SSD).

I've worked on a few side projects over the years. Sometimes they've turned out well, and other times I stopped working on them. How do you know when it's time to throw in the towel and when it's time to push through?

Always verify your assumptions. It will save you time and headache. I'll explain now.