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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291386

I mostly read progression fantasy books these days. Here are some series that I enjoyed a lot:

* "Beware of Chicken" by CasualFarmer

* "The Immaculate Collection" by havlo

* "The Runic Artist" by Ellake

* "The Broken Knife" by SilverSidhe

* "Immovable Mage" by ImmovableMage

* "The Gorgon Incident and Other Stories" by John Bierce

* "Quest Academy" by Brian J. Nordon

* "The Weirkey Chronicles" by Sarah Lin

`find` can do that as well with `{} +` (at least, the `GNU` implementation and it'll automatically add more invocations if there are just way too many files).

In any case, OP was using `-n1` which means one file per invocation.

Why use `xargs` instead of `-exec`? And if you do need `xargs` (for example, for parallel processing with `-P`), it is recommended to use `-print0` with `find` and `-0` with `xargs` to avoid issues due to filenames.

I use Zola (https://github.com/getzola/zola) - pretty fast and I was able to customize a few things as well.

I use `mdbook` to provide free online versions of my ebooks (topics include regular expressions, Linux CLI tools and Vim): https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks

I chose `mdbook` over `pandoc` mainly because of themes and search provided by default.

Part I: https://myhsu.xyz/llvm-sched-model-1/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41161831)

If you need to detect syntax issues, you can use `re.compile()`. For example, before Python 3.11, you'll get an error:

    >>> re.compile(r'\w++')
    re.error: multiple repeat at position 3

To use such a compiled pattern, you can call the method on this object instead of `re`. For example:

    >>> word = re.compile(r'\w+')
    >>> word.findall('hello-there!')
    ['hello', 'there']

>Perhaps it will allow the maintainer to take a few months off

Depends on where you live too - $10k would take care of 5 years for me.

From my experience though, it is better to figure out a way to sell something in addition to the open stuff.

See also this previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28898157 (409 points | Oct 19, 2021 | 63 comments)

Not sure if it was intended, but it helps to keep CLI one-liners concise. For example:

    awk '!a[$0]++'

    awk '/search/{n=2} n && n--'

Seems like the link should be https://backreference.org/2010/02/10/idiomatic-awk/ instead of https://backreference.org/index.html

https://microstudio.dev/ - supports JavaScript and Python

Gumroad is a free option. I run a programming newsletter with about 1000 subscribers.

* "The Sword of Kaigen" by M.L. Wang

* "The Green Bone Saga" by Fonda Lee

* "The Weirkey Chronicles" and "Street Cultivation" by Sarah Lin

See also:

* Middle East/Middle Eastern SFF: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/128ozc6/the_2023_r...

* Set in Africa: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/ttrhvf/the_2022_rf...

* Set in Asia: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/mhz3k7/the_2021_rf...

See also:

A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/

I have written a few blog posts: https://learnbyexample.github.io/tags/career/

>Even clothes were reused

My mom repurposed old pants as bags (I used it to carry my books at college - did get a lot of odd looks, but that's what I could afford at that time). Even now, I cut pieces of old clothing to be used for cleaning purposes. Those habits die hard.

On the flip side, converting my tutorials to ebooks saved me from having to look for a job again. Been selling them for 6 years (with the last two years spent just to update them to newer software versions, improve examples, new cover images, etc). Of course, I have the advantage of living in a developing country but selling to an international audience (just $200/month to pay my bills).

If you are able to install specific implementations of the tools, go with GNU tools on all the machines. That way, you'd get more features and work the same everywhere.

If that is not an option, go with Perl. It'd be a little slower, but you'll get consistent results. Plus, Perl has powerful regex, lots of standard libraries, etc.

I hope you have a baby turtle too: https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1bkyopc/baby_turt...

I published a revised version of my "Vim Reference Guide" ebook: https://learnbyexample.github.io/vim_reference/Introduction....

Then, I started working on an interactive TUI app for Python beginner exercises. I've previously written such apps for CLI tools (grep, sed, awk, coreutils, etc): https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps

Discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24800037

Also, another in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273301

I wrote a book focusing only on text processing commands (includes exercises as well): https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreuti...

You can practice some of the exercises using this interactive TUI app: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/tree/main/CLI-Exe...

See also: https://ratfactor.com/slackware/pkgblog/coreutils, https://maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/ and https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html

See also: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html

Yeah, https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes is a treasure trove.

And if you spend some time answering questions on stackoverflow/reddit, it'll become interesting enough to publish books ;)

See also: Entering text in the terminal is complicated (https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/07/08/readline/) — being able to diagnose what's going on makes the command line feel a more predictable and less chaotic

See also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide and https://github.com/denysdovhan/bash-handbook.

https://www.shellcheck.net/ is amazing to spot pitfalls.

See my list https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/linux_cli... for learning resources for CLI tools, scripting, etc.

There was an even earlier discussion with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330 (192 points | 2 days ago | 180 comments)