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Slowly but surely: - A learning tool in Python for Arrays and Algorithms - A prototype agent-based configuration management system in Perl - Trying to reinstall Arch Linux on a lap…

Mostly organizing my dotfiles across Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD, however, I have really fallen for Ansible. I discovered at work awhile back, but was able to grok how to make an…

1) Learn AWK deeply, in which I will meticulously go through a copy of the original 1988 book. 2) Get better at Git. 3) Study and pass the RHCSA. 4) Get better at troubleshooting L…

As someone who has spent their fair share of days in Vancouver, it blows my mind during some wet early mornings, that this city was where cyberpunk's cradle could be considered, wh…

Spider - The Video Game [1] - a little PS1 platformer that had you playing as a cybernetically enhanced spider that could replace its limbs with various weapons, as it tried to sav…

As someone who was also recently taught this, it's amazing. Props to the GNU Readline library [1] as well as Tmux as they are certified game-changers for the occasional context swa…

Seconding Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death," for its prescience, and I would also recommend Alfie Bown's "Candy Crush and Capitalism," as it makes a connection to how our noti…

And Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote the latter, "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System"

On the one hand, more power to helping people get free information, but my only concern would be the quality. Say, for example, I want to learn Perl. Should I take the "Perl Progra…

The guidelines state "What good hackers find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups " If a Wikipedia page about a cinder cone volcano[0] can be posted, then this…

With a two-week vacation coming up, I am greatly looking forward to jump into this for the first time! Any tips for someone on their first go-around? (I've already got 'Be Patient'…

That's entirely plausible. The next No Starch published book I read may also be terrible. But, I try to recommend what I can (that I've read) and allow readers (present and future)…

For those without time, a quick glance at the channel appears to be about setting up your workspace/work environment. Looks at keyboards, iPad accessories and suggestions of overal…

I mean, so far, its helped make things a bit easier for me to understand. I've also read "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" by Al Sweigart, which as someone with a non-CS back…

'The Systems Bible, 3rd Edition, by John Gall as a light introduction to Systems Theory as well as 'How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know, 3rd Edition' to brush up on m…

An Atari Portfolio from 1989. Eats 6 AA Batteries like candy. (If it seems familiar, it's what John Connor uses to hack an ATM in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day!"

While Michel Foucault sometimes gets a bad rep, he does actually talk about this in length in his book "Discipline and Punish (1975)" [0], in which the prison ends up becoming the …

Working on a programming language competency scale for myself. The idea is to give one's self confidence at using a specific language. Everyone learns programming differently obvio…

I think a good program, is like a good piece of art. You never really finish. You just satisfy the nagging feeling of incompleteness until you have exactly what you wanted (or hope…

7/10, so a pass. But as others have pointed out, everything in the photographs (from lighting to the angle of the subject) tells nothing about the subject. Unless you've seen pictu…

While I've used Git a bit, and appreciate for what it is, I will admit that it's syntax is what makes it a bit difficult. If the Git commands had kept to a single metaphor, then I …

I was going to suggest the :CueCat [0], but as I just realized, scanning QR codes with one's phone is quite trivial. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

The fact that you recognize that you've got a runaway daemon is good. Now you just need to recognize when it's eating too much memory and taking too many processes. (I realize that…