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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!) ...

Nothing much done today. But I am learning to pace myself and say stop :) Learnt some, about finding the absolute path of a file. Anyhoo, nothing much I can do. A gigantic, storm’s a-comin’! Time to batten down the hatches.

Ok, back from hiatus, much earlier than expected :) Need to take care not to burn myself out now. I need to do this slowly. Done with a tiny program, Kushal asked me to write. If you download a log from the DGPLUG log archive and then run the program and give it the filename, it’ll spit out a list of how many nicks, spoke how many words. The code is here, Gitlab and Github ...

Install Mosh on both ends allow udp access for mosh on the server (the example is for the ufw firewall) sudo ufw allow 60000:61000/udp connect like normal. if using a different port do this mosh user@domain.com --ssh="ssh -p 2222"

Done with an introductory Regular Expressions book. Picked up an advanced one. My physio used keep to telling me, that we needed to loosen and pry my hips open to expand my range of motion. These past few days have been the same, with respect to pattern matching using Regular Expressions. These lessons have been prying my brain open to a new way of thinking about words and characters. From the way things are going, I think I will be spending the better part of next week on Regular Expressions too. It’s still hard work, but it’s getting to be enjoyable hard work now. I need to pace myself better and slow down. I burnt myself out this week. ...

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. ...