Starting from the 3rd post, most of them are full stories. But I haven't read everything, so I'm not sure how much of it is really scifi, although he's most known for his cyberpunk stories in the 80s and 90s.
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an Americanscience fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.
How long would you say it took you before getting a fundamental understanding?
I would say years, as with any complex activity.
I'm still forgetting things I learned 3 or even 4 times like how to do a for each loop.
You can forget in 2 different ways:
Forget how to use something, so you need to look how to do it.
Forget that something exists, so you cannot even look for it because you are not aware it's a possibility.
You will forget-1 everything which you don't use on a daily basis. That's what internet is for. Forgetting in the 2-nd sense is much more rare and you should do something if that's the case.
all of it feels too advanced and I get lost on how to begin
This is a bias most of us have, you overlook how easy is for you to do things that previously were impossible and focus on how hard are the things you still don't know how to do. And computing is so complex right now that there always be "infinite" things you don't know.
Try showing what you know to someone who doesn't know how to code and you will get an idea of how much you have learnt :).
Anyway, I don't really have good advice :/, just wanted to confirm that what you feel is expected. Good luck!
Furthermore, "arbitrarily large" also does not mean "infinitely large". For example, although prime numbers can be arbitrarily large, an infinitely large prime number does not exist—since all prime numbers (as well as all other integers) are finite.
I was going to suggest yt-dlp, but this seems to be for android... right? In that case, I don't know if yt-dlp works there.
Anyway, for those on PCs, you can use yt-dlp "PLAYLIST_URL".
Some useful options:
--download-archive videos.txt: this will keep track of downloaded files in case you want to interrupt an continue later. You can change the filename videos.txt to whatever you want.
-R infinite --file-access-retries infinite --fragment-retries infinite --retry-sleep http:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep file_access:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep extractor:exp=1:20: infinite retries for different error types, for those with unreliable connections.
-o "%%(playlist_index)s - %%(title)s.%%(id)s.%%(ext)s": output file format
--cookies cookies.txt: if it's a private list, you will need to provide your (yt-logged-in-)browser cookies. See cookies.txt add-on.
I also found a post in one micro.blog with a few of alternatives:
TL;DR: Tumblr / Ghost / Blot / Mastodon / Write.as / Jekyll https://book.micro.blog/alternative-platforms/
EDIT: Manton Reece is the founder and lead developer of micro.blog
Yep, that's why I added the twitter source too.