Decided to reread the old stories I had read in my childhood. Started with Ben–Hur. You might know the movie, more the book. Adventure, slave galleys, a love triangle, and of course really well written historical fiction. Loved it so much that I went and got the rest of Lew Wallace’s fiction. The rains are going to be so much more enjoyable :)
It calls itself, an eco thriller. But that is selling the series short. It’s a lush, beautiful soundscape. The forests still ring in my ears. The drums still thump. The future is chilly and industrial. The writing and the dialogue are crisp. And most importantly, it has an all woman cast. And that is all I am willing to share. Find the podcast here. It says episodes available indefinitely. So go have fun! I binged it. I’m sure you will too. ...
While the storm passed us by, it bought upon us a day of no power. So I just deciced to make the most of it and read a book, I’ve wanted to, for quite a while. Finished Jon Stokes’, “Inside the Machine”. This book is like a 5000 feet, overview on how the CPU inside a computer works. If you’re curious like me, and don’t want to delve into the nitty-gritties of Computer Science, this is just the book for you. Starting with a fictional CPU and then racing through the Intel/AMD (x86, IA-64, x86-64) and AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorala - PowerPC) line of CPUs, this is a wonderful exposition of how the brains in your computer work. (spoiler, they are really dumb and plenty fast!) ...
Done with Introducing Regular Expressions, by Michael Fitzgerald. The subtitle, of the book says it all. Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-by-Step Michael is a funny, patient and pithy author. The book breaks down the basics of Regular Expressions into its components and then walks through explaining them in examples, line by painstaking line. Any book that uses Coleridge to teach me Regular Expressions is awesome, so I’m biased :) Definitely worth a read if you are brand new to the powerful world of RegEx. ...
With my area in near-quarantine, I was too busy rushing around, making sure family was ok. Had a lot of patches of free time, in the middle of things though. So I decided to read about algorithms. I know I need a good base in the future, and knowing about the turtles that underlie my new world. I decided to start small, and picked up Grokking Algorithms. I loved it. It taught me about the big low hanging basic problems that folks need to solve using computers and the patterns / recipes / algorithms we use to solve it. Problems like how to sort stuff (selection sort, quicksort) And how we can break down a big problem into a set of similar problems that get smaller and smaller and solving them all using a single solution from the inside of the problem onion, outwards, or from the smallest Matryoshka doll to the largest. (recursion) And how lists function and how to find the most efficient way to get from point A to point B. It covers a set of the basic algorithms in use today and has plenty of pointers to more efficient ways of how things are done in the real world and also where to find more advanced problems. ...
Study Less, Study Smart, Marty Lobdell The book is the text form of this youtube video. I bought the book as a thank you. (and because I did not want to watch an hour long video everytime I needed something.) It summarises into one, tiny package, what I took years and books to learn ...