Hype for the Future 86G → Upcoming Topics for the YouTube Channels

Introduction — novaTopFlex

novaTopFlex continues to showcase distinctive features of the Python programming language, including, but not limited to, the distinctions between Python 2 and Python 3. Most of the Python 2 and Python 3 content distinctions occur between versions, rather than within them.

Schedule

Upcoming YouTube videos for the novaTopFlex YouTube channel shall include (by date and time, all EST/EDT):

• January 26 at 9:00 AM
  • Python 2 Mathematics
  • Python 2 abs()
  • Python 2 id()
• January 26 at 12:00 PM
  • Python 2 bin()
  • Python 2 bool()
  • Python 2 chr()
• January 26 at 3:00 PM
  • Python 2 oct()
  • Python 2 hex()
  • Python 2 hash()
• January 26 at 6:00 PM
  • Python 2 dict()
  • Python 2 tuple()
  • Python 2 type()
• January 27 at 9:00 AM
  • Python 3 Mathematics
  • Python 3 abs()
  • Python 3 id()
• January 27 at 12:00 PM
  • Python 3 bin()
  • Python 3 bool()
  • Python 3 chr()
• January 27 at 3:00 PM
  • Python 3 oct()
  • Python 3 hex()
  • Python 3 hash()
• January 27 at 6:00 PM
  • Python 3 dict()
  • Python 3 tuple()
  • Python 3 type()
• January 28 at 9:00 AM
  • Python 2 print()
  • Python 3 print()
  • Python 2 and Python 3 Compared
• January 28 at 12:00 PM
  • Python 3 os.name
  • Python 3 os.ctermid()
  • Python 3 os.environ and os.environb
• January 28 at 3:00 PM
  • Python 3 os.chdir()
  • Python 3 os.getcwd()
  • Python 3 os.getenv() and os.getenvb()
• January 28 at 6:00 PM
  • Python 3 os.getegid(), os.geteuid(), os.getgid(), os.getpgid(), os.getpgrp(), os.getpid(), os.getppid(), os.getresuid(), os.getresgid(), and os.getuid()
    • Effective Group ID, Effective User ID, Group ID, Process Group ID (requires Process ID), Process Group, Process ID, Parent Process ID, Real/Effective/Saved User IDs, Real/Effective/Saved Group IDs, Real User ID
  • Python 3 os.getlogin()
  • Python 3 os.path.curdir and os.path.pardir

Hype for the Future 86A: The Research Plan for the Three Identities

Overview — novaTopFlex

The entirety of the entitled research realm for novaTopFlex is situated in the technology “tech” industry containing the distinctive characteristics of supporting a number of programming languages, enabling coding documentation for offline usage, and providing large-scale documentation even at the offline level.

Overview — geoTopFlex

Research goals are currently Scandinavian and otherwise Nordic by nature, including, but not limited to, the countries and regions of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, and parts of Scotland situated nearby. Distinctions between nations, such as those between geographical and cultural significance, are also to be identified throughout the entitled research time.

Overview — futoTopFlex

The Third Identity, futoTopFlex, is currently entitled to research current events, light politics, and a number of additional topics in trivia such as fine arts.

Hype for the Future 86/284: YouTube Recording Plan for the Three Identities

Overview — novaTopFlex

As novaTopFlex, the schedule for today and early tomorrow is based on linguistics, localization, and internationalization. Additional topics of interest to the Three Identities include, but are not limited to, the Python programming language and particularly the `os` and `sys` modules, now to be covered individually.

Overview — geoTopFlex

As geoTopFlex, the schedule for today and early tomorrow may simply be to continue the research interests for the WordPress site, rather than for YouTube.

Overview — futoTopFlex

As futoTopFlex, the schedule for today and tomorrow is to cover the research interests as identified, so long as the OpenStreetMap content and map alike are not entirely visible.

Hype for the Future 80/284: Topics for the YouTube Channel

Introduction

On this Monday, January 19, 2026, novaTopFlex is slated to return to GitHub after a relatively long hiatus and create new repositories for educational, documentary, scientific, and artistic purposes in all counts of the concept and context.

Topics

The first new feature shall be a link applet using the Tkinter graphical toolkit. The application will be presented to both GitHub and YouTube, with more complex setups coming soon using the Tkinter applet and related applets.

The second new project will require access to a system’s terminal emulate to function properly. The `calendar` module in the Python programming language will be utilized, and the `sys.argv` function will also be utilized to determine the year that the Tkinter applet shall function with.

Hype for the Future 79T: The `nano` Text Editor

Overview

Unfortunately, no version information was found on the novaTopFlex system used for creating and uploading the YouTube videos using `/usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6`. The ultimate error was “Segmentation fault (core dumped)” and novaTopFlex would like more information on how to fix the issues.

Hype for the Future 68J: The Derivatives of the Different Trigonometric Functions?

Overview

While novaTopFlex would like to explain the derivatives and integrals of the different trigonometric functions, LaTeX would be required in order to correctly interpret the underlying situation.

Hype for the Future 45G: CWM → Moving Windows

Using the cwm window manager from video 45F, novaTopFlex shall attempt to open the xclock application for demonstration 45G. 45G is supposed to refer to the window movement as well as management, with the following keyboard shortcuts to be demonstrated:

• Meta-h, Meta-j, Meta-k, and Meta-l to move the xclock window by small amounts
• Meta-H, Meta-J, Meta-K, and Meta-L to move the xclock window by large amounts

Hype for the Future 45F: CWM → The Basics

Prior to beginning the video, novaTopFlex shall launch a 540×960 VNC server session on port 5901, using TigerVNC and the cwm startup file. The window manager shall be tested as follows:

• Press Control-Meta-Return to spawn a new terminal.
• Press Meta-Return to hide the terminal window.
• Press Meta-Slash to search for windows.
• Press Meta-Down to lower the current window.
• Press Meta-Up to raise the current window.
• Press Control-Meta-x to close the terminal window.

To locate the video stream, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex upon video release and search for “CWM: The Basics” within the appropriate search feature.

Hype for the Future 22C: Plans for novaTopFlex

On November 22, 2025, plans for novaTopFlex and associated channels over on YouTube include numerous highly modular Python projects, largely with graphical user interfaces in context, including special programming regarding software designed for travel journalism and journalists as well as for general long-distance tourism. As is typical novaTop convention for late 2025, access to the source code is an essential part of the experience, providing both access to and advocacy for free-and-open-source software (FOSS). For a software package to be ethical, capitalism must not be involved at any level, and the source code must be available to the general public without restraint.

Hype for the Future 7A: Mathematics Edition

The hyperbolic functions of the sine and of the cosine are identified as follows:

sinh(x)=(e^x-e^(-x))/2

cosh(x)=(e^x+e^(-x))/2

The remaining hyperbolic trigonometric functions can be constructed with the hyperbolic versions of the appropriate functions. While tan(x)=sin(x)/cos(x), tanh(x)=sinh(x)/cosh(x) and can be constructed as (e^x-e^(-x))/(e^x+e^(-x)).

The Year that I would Like to Relive

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

Of all the years of my life thus far, I would absolutely like to relive 2016, because it was a very productive year not just for me, but for the entire community. I wish I could relive 2016 now that I am older because I would become even more serious about coding/programming to perfection in every case. At the time I was very into web development and website building using Wix; however, I was, believe it or not, also mistaken with WP Shindig, believing that the Shindig calendar was the real calendar.

Why is arctan(1/2) equal to arctan(1/3) + arctan(1/7)?

The truth behind the signature arctangent question is simply that the arctangent addition formula, in direct resemblance to the tangent addition formula, is directly related to the fact that 1/3 + 1/7 equals 7/21 + 3/21 and the fact that 7 + 3 = 10, resulting in a final solution of 10/21 just in the numerator. In the denominator, however, is 1 - (1/3)(1/7), which results in 1 - 1/21, which in return results in (21-1)/21 equals 20/21. If the numerator is 10/21 and the denominator is 20/21, the ratio is exactly identical to the ratio with numerator 10 and denominator 20. Furthermore, 10/20 is equivalent to the simplified expression 1/2.

Related Question: Why can Pi be represented by arctan(1)+arctan(2)+arctan(3)?

The arctangent of one plus the arctangent of two is equivalent to the arctangent of (1+2)/(1-1*2), which is the arctangent of 3/-1 equals -3. With two and three, the formula becomes (2+3)/(1-2*3), which becomes 5/-5 and thus becomes -1. For one and three, the formula is (1+3)/(1-1*3), which equates to 4/-2 equals -2. Multiplying the arctangents of the negatives by the multiplicative inverses effectively cancels out the numerators, as in x+(-x) equals x-x equals 0 (zero). Even though the arctangent of zero is, in fact, zero, the tangent function is notable for having a period of π, and with the positive arctangents, arctan(1)+arctan(2)+arctan(3) can, in fact, equal π.

Behind the Scenes: novaTopFlex Edition

When recording videos to YouTube, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features are disabled prior to the beginning of the recording time. The intensification of the setup may vary with the specific video topic(s), but the most intense setups will be set up as follows:

• Four VNC Servers, resolution 2048×1152, with TightVNC (5901–5904) and JWM
  • 5901 on upper left with background set to “LightSlateBlue”
  • 5902 on upper right with background set to “LightSlateGrey”
  • 5903 on lower left with background set to “DarkSlateBlue”
  • 5904 on lower right with background set to “DarkSlateGrey”
• One VNC Server, resolution 4096×2304, with TigerVNC (5905) and a window manager appropriate for the context

For less intense video topics and video setups, such as videos that follow along with documentation, expect somewhat lower resolutions for the VNC servers. Whenever an alternate desktop environment or window manager is being discussed, expect to activate a single 1920×1080 VNC server with the environment in question.

Within most videos, expect a total of sixteen (16) workspaces on desktop environments and window managers for every desktop incorporated into the system, with the organization structure as follows:

Desktop 1	Applications that require Internet connectivity; Offline documentation browsers when Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disabled
Desktop 2	Virtual machines with QEMU on the host system and SSH logins with terminal emulator(s) on virtual systems
Desktop 3	Utility applications, including terminal emulators, that may or may not require Internet access; do not expect most applications on this workspace to demand access to networking.
Desktop 4	Applications from office suites and productivity
Desktop 5	Audio applications, particularly audio-editing applications
Desktop 6	Video applications, particularly video-editing applications
Desktop 7	VNC (Virtual Network Computing) viewers
Desktop 8	Interactive Python, Python applications, and terminal emulators with Python processes
Desktop 9	Graphics editors and applications for graphics editing
Desktop 10	Applications for the creation and editing of fonts
Desktop 11	Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python
Desktop 12	Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktop 11 exhausted
Desktop 13	Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11 and 12 exhausted
Desktop 14	Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11, 12, and 13 exhausted
Desktop 15	Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11, 12, 13, and 14 exhausted
Desktop 16	Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 exhausted Note: novaTopFlex will never create nor destroy desktops or workspaces within most situations; expect exactly sixteen desktops or workspaces per individual display.