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learnbyexample , 9 months ago

EPUB reader

learnbyexample , 9 months ago

Cradle by Will Wight is a page-turner. 12 book completed series and audio is great based on gushing reviews I’ve come across.

learnbyexample OP , 10 months ago

Hope you find the book useful :)

I’d also suggest these shorter guides to get started:

• ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html
• backreference.org/2010/02/10/idiomatic-awk/
• earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/

learnbyexample OP , 10 months ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback on Coreutils book! It’s so nice to hear that it helped in your thesis.

Regarding the ebook versions, I use pandoc to convert GitHub style Markdown to PDF/EPUB (wrote a blog post about my process here: learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/). I had to search through stackexchange threads to customize the few things I could. I don’t know how to fix the kind of page breaks you mentioned. But, I’ll try to find a solution. Thanks again for the feedback :)

learnbyexample OP , 10 months ago

I’ve written books on regex too, if you are interested in learning ;)

learnbyexample OP , 9 months ago

I have a book for Perl One-Liners as well, which I’m currently revising :)

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people – including himself – to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer’s eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

“To Kill a Mocking Bird” is great.

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

I’ve read his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. Epic dark fantasy, great characters and worldbuilding. The plot is good too, but the pacing goes off rail sometimes.

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

See also:

• tldr — collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools
• explainshell — write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument
• General purpose command-line tools — examples for most common usecases
• Bash reference cheatsheet — nicely formatted and explained well
• Bash scripting cheatsheet — quick reference to getting started with Bash scripting

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

If you don’t mind sci-fi: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

And there’s the classic The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

Thanks, that looks interesting, added to my TBR.

Also, just remembered The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester as another candidate for your request. This is also sci-fi.

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

Inspired by explainshell, I wrote a script (github.com/learnbyexample/command_help) to be used from the terminal itself. It is a bit buggy, but works well most of the time. For example:

<span style="color:#323232;">$ ch grep -Ao
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       grep - print lines that match patterns
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       -A NUM, --after-context=NUM
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.  Places a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              matches.  With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              and a warning is given.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       -o, --only-matching
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              Print  only  the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              each such part on a separate output line.
</span>

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

I bought a Kindle but hardly ever use it. I was using the web app on my large desktop monitor and I found that comfortable (especially the solarized-like theme) compared to the Kindle device.

learnbyexample , 10 months ago

I mostly read on Kindle Unlimited. A lot of the progression fantasy and cozy fantasy books are on KU (my current favorite subgenres), so there’s no shortage of books to read. In addition, there’s plenty of self-pub fantasy and sci-fi books (there are two competitions: SPFBO and SPSFC which help in finding good ones to read).

learnbyexample , 11 months ago

I use GVim for coding and text editing in general.

Programming wise, CLI tools (grep, sed, awk, sort, head, etc) are enough for most of my tasks. I’ve written a few Python TUI projects (uses Textual framework) but these are around 300-400 lines, so Vim is more than enough for my purposes. Don’t even need any plugins.

learnbyexample , 11 months ago

Was going to suggest Cradle as well!

I’d add Mage Errant by John Bierce - magical academy, 4 member student group who trust each other, competent teachers, amazing worldbuilding, big battles (in later books), etc.

learnbyexample , 11 months ago

github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor - automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness

github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng, pngquant.org and github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner for optimizing images

learnbyexample , 11 months ago

I finally started Murderbot series over the weekend. Already done with the first four novellas.

learnbyexample , 11 months ago

There was a discussion thread few days back for books that combine sci-fi and magic: programming.dev/post/276456

learnbyexample , 11 months ago

• The Captain by Will Wight
• The Shadows of Dust by Alec Hutson
• Portal to Nova Roma by J.R. Mathews
• Starship’s Mage by Glynn Stewart

learnbyexample , 1 year ago

Mage Errant by John Bierce has a main warlock character who pacts with a greater power. There are other ways of pacts as well that feature throughout the series. This is one of my favorite all time series, particularly for the main group of teenagers who support each other no matter what. The magic system is great and worldbuilding starts to shine as the series progresses.

Some recommendations for novels based on Greek mythology (though I haven’t read them yet):

• Soldier of the Mist series by Gene Wolfe
• Troy trilogy by David Gemmell