learnbyexample

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I wrote a TUI application to help you practice Python regular expressions. There are more than 100 exercises covering both the builtin re and third-party regex module.

If you have pipx, use pipx install regexexercises to install the app. See the repo for source code and other details.

 

Hello!

I am pleased to announce a new version of my Linux Command Line Computing ebook.

This ebook aims to teach Linux command line tools and Shell Scripting for beginner to intermediate level users. The main focus is towards managing your files and performing text processing tasks. Plenty of examples are provided to make it easier to understand a particular tool and its various features. There are 200+ exercises to help you practice what you've learned and solutions are provided for reference. I hope this ebook would make it easier for you to discover CLI tools, features and learning resources.

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I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

Happy learning :)

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.

"To Kill a Mocking Bird" is great.

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.

I read three progression fantasy books in the past three days, so I'm going to take a break and get some of my actual work done :D

Card Mage: Slumdog Deckbuilder by Benedict Patrick (book 1 of a new series) was well written and a compelling read, but I'd have enjoyed it a lot more if it was lighthearted.

Overpowered Dungeon Boy by Benjamin Barreth (2 book completed series) was a lighthearted fun read. The OP main character took a while to warm up to, but many of the side characters were easy to root for.

[–] learnbyexample@programming.dev 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

You can do it in Bash as well. Put this in .inputrc:

"\e[A":history-substring-search-backward
"\e[B":history-substring-search-forward

# or, if you want to search only from the start of the command
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

Inspired by explainshell, I wrote a script (https://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:

$ ch grep -Ao
       grep - print lines that match patterns

       -A NUM, --after-context=NUM
              Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.  Places a
              line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of
              matches.  With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect
              and a warning is given.

       -o, --only-matching
              Print  only  the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with
              each such part on a separate output line.

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.

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).

magic is used and studied/understood like science

I haven't read Dungeon Crawler Carl yet, but that should fit your criteria right? Many of the progression fantasy books usually have a magic system with tangible tiers and usually rules are known too.

Cradle by Will Wight and Mage Errant by John Bierce are both complete series and I'd put their magic system as hard. Mage Errant dives deeper into the workings, especially as the main characters are students and one of their teachers is especially knowledgeable. Arcane Ascension by Andrew Rowe is another series with such academy focus and a progression magic system.

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