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  • Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor is a fun and easy read

  • Algorithms for Competitive Programming

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  • Looking for something new to read after The Expanse

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  • Stormlight Archives can be daunting to those not familiar with Sanderson's works, especially since the books are long (1000+ pages) and the first book is setting up a long 10-book series (plus other stuff from a wider universe).

    If you'd like something smaller and standalone to try first, check out "Emperor's Soul" (novella) or Warbreaker (novel).

  • Looking for something new to read after The Expanse

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  • +1 for Murderbot!

  • Do you guys have any book reading goals for next year?

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  • True, perhaps a case of doing too much of anything over a long period ;)

  • Do you guys have any book reading goals for next year?

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  • When I was younger, I'd read slowly, trying to visualize the setting, keep track of character preferences, look up words I don't know, etc. I'd remember a book well enough to talk about it even a year or so after.

    These days, I just skim over descriptions and read as fast as I could while still getting the main plot. I get attached to characters only if the book is really good and savor them during rereads.

  • Do you guys have any book reading goals for next year?

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  • I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi, which tend to have multiple books in a series. If they are easy-to-read and short (300-400 pages per book), it becomes easy to consume. Also, I read for escapism, so I don't read too closely.

  • Do you guys have any book reading goals for next year?

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  • Hopefully less than this year. I'm reading too many (100+) and that's reflecting in my reduced time on actual work (self-employed).

  • Looking for tutorials

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  • I have a list of curated resources here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/

    There are sections for beginners, intermediate, advanced, etc. Also included are exercises, projects, debugging, testing, and many more stuff. Hope it helps :)

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    Who are some programming content creators that you follow?

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  • A good fantasy book? you know, wizards, dragons, princesses, that kind of stuff

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  • +1 for Cradle already mentioned. I'd add

    • The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
    • Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

  • Understanding JavaScript RegExp with hundreds of examples and exercises

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  • It's the name of the constructor, for example:

     
            const pat1 = new RegExp(`42//?5`)

    So, I used that in the book name.

  • Perl One-Liners Guide with plenty of examples and exercises

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  • That's great to hear and thanks for the kind feedback :)

  • Best place to write and host a programming guide

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  • SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using?

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  • I used to use it for posting on Twitter, with some keywords (like book title) in bold.

  • SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using?

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  •  bash
        
alias a='alias'

a c='clear'
a p='pwd'
a e='exit'
a q='exit'

a h='history | tail -n20'
# turn off history, use 'set -o history' to turn it on again
a so='set +o history'

a b1='cd ../'
a b2='cd ../../'
a b3='cd ../../../'
a b4='cd ../../../../'
a b5='cd ../../../../../'

a ls='ls --color=auto'
a l='ls -ltrhG'
a la='l -A'
a vi='gvim'
a grep='grep --color=auto'

# open and source aliases
a oa='vi ~/.bash_aliases'
a sa='source ~/.bash_aliases'

# sort file/directory sizes in current directory in human readable format
a s='du -sh -- * | sort -h'

# save last command from history to a file
# tip, add a comment to end of command before saving, ex: ls --color=auto # colored ls output
a sl='fc -ln -1 | sed "s/^\s*//" >> ~/.saved_commands.txt'
# short-cut to grep that file
a slg='< ~/.saved_commands.txt grep'

# change ascii alphabets to unicode bold characters
a ascii2bold="perl -Mopen=locale -Mutf8 -pe 'tr/a-zA-Z/𝗮-𝘇𝗔-𝗭/'"

### functions
# 'command help' for command name and single option - ex: ch ls -A
# see https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help for a better script version
ch() { whatis $1; man $1 | sed -n "/^\s*$2/,/^$/p" ; }

# add path to filename(s)
# usage: ap file1 file2 etc
ap() { for f in "$@"; do echo "$PWD/$f"; done; }

# simple case-insensitive file search based on name
# usage: fs name
# remove '-type f' if you want to match directories as well
fs() { find -type f -iname '*'"$1"'*' ; }

# open files with default application, don't print output/error messages
# useful for opening docs, pdfs, images, etc from command line
o() { xdg-open "$@" &> /dev/null ; }

# if unix2dos and dos2unix commands aren't available by default
unix2dos() { sed -i 's/$/\r/' "$@" ; }
dos2unix() { sed -i 's/\r$//' "$@" ; }

  • Day 8 - The infamous "grep" and other text processors

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  • What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

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  • EPUB reader