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I enjoyed the simulated phone screenshots, particularly the choice of House of the Trembling Madness, a great beer stockist and drinking establishment on Lendal in York. I would li…

If this intersection is of interest to you, so might Mason Currey's book Daily Rituals ("On the routines and working habits of 161 inspired minds, from Beethoven to Donald Barthelm…

This looks intriguing and I'm definitely going to try it out. The clincher? Seeing the possibly gratuitous but ultimately wonderful use of ed in pane 0 in the screenshot.

Now that is a good typo

Was that really necessary? The title of the item, to which the above reply was written, was "Solving Advent of Code with jq". So yes, "doing the same thing" here fits fine.

(Author of post here) Imposing constraints upon oneself is not a bad thing at all, I enjoy that approach (which was also why this time I constrained myself to `jq`). I didn't know …

There's a lot of references here to jq being 'arcane'. For me, one of the challenges in improving my jq fu has been to find examples of larger programs, from which to learn. One th…

Wow, I've been on the lookout for larger jq programs from which to learn. I'm going to enjoy learning from wsjq, thank you!

(author here) - the subcommands are great but don't give me what I was looking for (as explained in the detail of the post).

Now you point that out, yes - it's true. I remember working through various BASIC PLUS programs that we were creating, a few lines at a time, and, yes, together. On the Superterm t…

(Author of post here) - thank you for these insights and history!

Sounds great. Just by the way, I started something like this (free / free of adverts) earlier this month, on a small scale, to scratch my own itch, basically: the "Tech Aloud" podc…

I don't work for SAP, I do work in the SAP space (which extends far beyond what many people perhaps realise). I do use OpenUI5 quite extensively, so these are my thoughts, coming f…

Excellent! I know I'm biased but I also know you've put a lot of effort into this. Well done Joseph.

Really good entry-level intro. Useful!