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  • I started reading progression fantasy on Royal Road earlier this year (a site for posting web serials). Here's my current follow list (excluding stories that are on hiatus):

    • The Runic Artist — isekai, rune-based crafting, good mix of action and slice-of-life
    • The Broken Knife — Kobold MC with a dragon companion, dark but compelling read, excellent worldbuilding
    • Demon World Boba Shop — cozy isekai, nice characters
    • Dual Wielding — slow burn, tale of two friends (both very talented), writing is good, action scenes get dark and intense
    • Legends and Librarians — cozy romance, magical library (not litrpg/progression), plenty of cute creatures
    • An Otherworldly Scholar — isekai, teacher MC, good worldbuilding, nice romance, great characters, plenty of twists, adventure and danger, especially enjoyed the slice-of-life stuff
    • Archmage from Another World: Gaining Administrator Access — isekai from another fantasy world, lighthearted fun with good set of characters, no looming world-level threats so far
    • Underkeeper — MC is a recent magical academy graduate, good at magic but works as underkeeper (no money/connections to join adventurer groups), got darker than I'm comfortable with, but loved the characters and the demon companion
    • Immovable Mage — good worldbuilding, characters, plot twists and detailed magic system, clever use of plot events pushes MC towards OP, would suggest to read at least till the end of 2nd arc
    • Level One God — likeable MC, cool magic stuff I haven't seen before, some bad moments are really dark, good writing
    • Spire's Spite — criminally underrated with only 100+ followers, mostly been spire climbing so far, good magic system, dark and has some stuff I don't like but overall I've enjoyed it
    • Blood Curse Academia — overall I enjoyed the combination of action, learning and mystery, but a lot of weird coincidences and stuff didn't make sense
    • Mana Mirror — loved the concept of mana garden and the myriad customization options, writing and plot was easy to follow, third volume is the best so far
    • The Maid Is Not Dead — writing felt like traditionally published epic fantasy with progression elements, slow burn but events are starting to escalate
    • Dark Lord's Last Call — MC's soul is swapped with the dark lord, plans to open a tavern, enjoyable light-hearted read
    • Orphan — I usually ignore the litrpg math but this one takes it a bit too far! characters all have flaws (though sometimes it becomes a bit too irritating), good worldbuilding and mystery
    • Rules of Biomancy — 70 year old herbalist MC with a secret past comes across two isekai-ed people in danger of dying and decides to help, enjoying a lot

  • I wrote a book on Linux command line tools and Shell Scripting (beginner to intermediate level)

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  • Is it regex or sed/awk syntax (or both) that gives you trouble?

    I had similar reaction and didn't even try to learn them for years - then I caught the stackoverflow craze of answering CLI questions (and learning from others).

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  • How terminal works

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  • Improving shell workflows with fzf

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  • What's the difference between two_percent and skim?

  • What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

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  • Check out https://novelwriter.io/

    I'm not familiar with such softwares (I use pandoc for technical writing), but might help you..

  • CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils (head, tail, tr, sort, paste, pr, join, etc)

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  • Yeah, it is uncommon spelling, but if you google, you'll find it's not that rare ;)

  • CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils (head, tail, tr, sort, paste, pr, join, etc)

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  • You're welcome, happy learning :)

  • CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils (head, tail, tr, sort, paste, pr, join, etc)

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  • I'm self-published and haven't worked for other publications. Sometimes, my submissions reach HN front page, so you might have seen there or because others picked it up from there and shared around elsewhere.

  • Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'

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  • As per the manual, "Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors" - which is best suited with GUI Vim.

    While Vim doesn't make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode!

  • CLI text processing with grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby

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  • I had to learn Linux CLI tools, Vim and Perl at my very first job. Have a soft spot for Perl, despite not using it much these days other than occasional one-liners (mainly for advanced regex features).

  • CLI text processing with grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby

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  • Thanks a lot for the kind words! Means a lot to me :)

  • CLI text processing with grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby

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  • Thanks! 😊

  • 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).

  • Anyone know of a reverse command script or package to parse args for flags, expand them, and condense a man or help page(s) to just the relevant flags?

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  • 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.