One of the reasons I’ve become interested in deep analytical dives of podcasts is because of Software Engineering (SE) Radio. It’s not quite at the top of my podcast fave lists because I don’t feel an urge to listen to it regularly. However, the content is typically excellent and I like the no nonense interview style. A little topic introduction, a little guest bio, and then right into the technical discussion. No ads either.

The analytic draw is the historical depth of the content. SE Radio launched back in 2006, 16 years ago. There are 511 episodes as of this writing. It’s provided under a Creative Commons 2.5 License. There are so many summarization possibilities to apply and questions to be answered of such a corpus. Think of all the tech topics that have come up over the years. Not to mention that there are some exceedingly distinguished guests making appearances. How have the themes and personalities ebbed and flowed over the years? What programming languages have ascended and waned? Are there any enduring repeat offenders? How does this all connect and intersect with the wider tech topic podcast ecosystem?

And that’s just a single long lived podcast! Between The Python Podcast.__Init__ (363) and the Data Engineering Podcast (288), Tobias Macey has delivered 651 episodes, primarily by himself. For almost any vertical topic you can imagine, there are probably at least a decent handful of well rooted podcasts worth deep diving on.

I’ll need to get a good lawyer to interpret the license, but the only show stopper might be the legality of building publicly available systems that derive from analytics of the podcast episodes. On the one hand, I feel like this might be like podcast search indexing which would seem to not be a derivative work. On the other, you are building on the content sooo…

Now whether all of the episodes can actually be collected is a technical challenge for another day.

Link parkin’. A couple of other static site generation engines:

• Nikola
• Hugo

I’m probably hobbling Pelican by running page generation on a 2008 White plastic MacBook (!!), but it feels pokey to me. And it always seems to regen from all my source pages, including a ton that haven’t changed in years. Whatever algorithm is being used for change detection doesn’t seem to be working. Now lining up alternatives to explore.

Keeping with the theme of generative art, previously I linked to an old post of mine where, I had replicated another artist’s work. The inspiration was Jared S. Tarbell’s piece from complexifcation.net entitled substrate. Curious, I went to the Web to see what had become of Mr. Tarbell.

Complexification.net is still alive, although frozen in time, featuring Java Applets from an era gone by. What do you expect from 2004-05 though. At least it wasn’t all Flash.

But I also chanced upon this somewhat recent interview (late August 2020) with Tarbell. First off, if I knew Tarbell had started Etsy I had certainly forgotten. That’s a nice feather in the cap, presumably leaving some financial runway to pursue whatever. Second, his backstory was quite interesting. Third, he seems to still be practicing!

What a great gallery. Fuel for replication, emulation, and inspiration.

Another activity I’d like to get back into is generative art. I’ve always admired the processing ecosystem and community. There was even an extended period where I was a quite serious dabbler in using Python to replicate various works. In particular, Matthew Pearson, a.k.a zenbullets, released a book entitled Generative Art and published a site Abandoned Art. I recently decided to see what Pearson was up to these days. Apparently he’s abandoned working in this arena, but there are still vestiges of his work online.

Having squatted on the domain adoptedart.org (currently redirects to mpr.crossjam.net) intending to recreate the works in Abandoned Art, I’ve got some Internet real estate to build a portfolio in this space. Just need to get stuck into it.

Interestingly, only screen captures of the abandoned works are available from Pearson’s current site. With a little digging in on the Wayback Machine, maybe the source code can be recovered.

Link parkin’: DuckDB

Does for OLAP what sqlite did for OLTP. Excellent podcast episode on DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen.

At least as of May 2022, here is a brief list of podcasts that I regularly enjoy. I’ll likely comeback and do individual deeper dives through the course of the month:

• The Python Podcast.__init__
• Data Engineering Podcast
• Python Bytes
• Talk Python To Me
• The Changelog
• The Data Exchange
• Kubernetes Podcast From Google
• Sports Media With Richard Deitsch

Tech heavy. Yup, I’m a nerd.

Special shout out to Tobias Macey longtime producer of both the “The Python Podcast” and the “Data Engineering Podcast” while maintaining a full time day job and being a dad. Yikes!

Additional shout out to Richard Deitsch’s podcast, recently discovered, for super high quality journalism about journalism and media. Usually I don’t enjoy going meta, but Deitsch is so good he’s worth a regular listen. Also check out his work at The Athletic. The guy is a beast.

Link parkin’: MeiliSearch

Might be useful for searching blog archives, especially in a comparison/bakeoff with sqlite’s FTS3, FTS4, and FTS5.

Via Mark Litwintschik

Well, so much for that. An unfortunate series of events busted my “streak” after only three days. Back on the horse though.

What I would have said yesterday, as the month rolls on I expect podcast and podcast analytics to be a theme. There’s a metric crapton of episodes out there and some of it is freely licensed. Listen Notes is doing some admirable stuff on basic podcast search, but I’ve got some wacky ideas around demos, tools, and prototypes that do deep dives on collected content. Hacking around on data engineering, app development, and natural language processing should lead to some interesting portfolio results, if nothing else.

Apropos the title, Overcast went through a redesign, released a few weeks ago. The day it came out I was literally thinking, “is there a way in Overcast to find one’s started, but not completed, podcast episodes?” Voilà! Feature delivered.

For a while I gave Apple Podcasts a run, but once on the Overcast bandwagon, I’ve never looked back. Highly recommended, and well worth paying the annual subscription to support the developer, Marco Arment.

Well the following statement didn’t hold up well

Disclaimer, I don’t listen to podcasts and I’m only peripherally interested in them as another form of sociable media on the Web. This post was inspired by some observations by Ernest Miller on the scannability of podcasts.

I’m actually heavily into podcasts now (four plus years with Overcast? Wow!), but digging through my ancient archives, I came across that one on PodBytes. A heck of a lot has changed in the podcast ecosystem, but I’m sort of interested to know if the ability to do a “pull quote” has actually been enabled.

In an homage to days gone by, let’s see if I can run the table posting every day for May 2022.

I actually had a good time last week fooling around with the Python based xonsh shell. Way too much time was spent getting the conch emoji (🐚) into the shell prompt but most of the blame can be laid at the feet of the powerline2 plugin. Hooking into the prompt generation isn’t obvious unless you’re already familiar with the powerline model which has been transported from the vi world. Not my jam.

There’s definitely something enticing about having Python closely coupled with the shell CLI. I need to get it installed on a few more machines and used more frequently to have a real assessment. I’m waiting to see where the real warts are but so far, so good.

• Football’s Secret Trade, Alex Duff and Tariq Panja
• How to Decide, Annie Duke
• Rosewater, Tade Thompson
• Tor!, Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger

Four completed in the shortest month, February, is nothing to sneeze at. Seven total for the year. Thoughts after the break.

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• The Numbers Game, Christopher Anderson and David Sally
• La Roja, Jimmy Burns
• Exhalation, Ted Chiang

Arguably a light haul for January, but still off to a better start than last year at this time.

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For some reason, this post was scheduled for June of 2020 (!!) but never posted. Letting it loose now to clean out the drafts folder.

For the first time ever intentionally, I rethemed one of my blogs. New Media Hack got a new theme only because I had to apply something during the transfer to WordPress. Mass Programming Resistance hadn’t had a style change from its inception. Now it does.

The theme is pretty minimal. I forked a repository from Giulio Fidente that is spartan black text on white background. Mainly I just decided to go with square instead of rounded corners on the buttons and to tighten up the gutter between the sidebar and the main content.

Along with fixing up the RSS and Atom feeds, the theme change was the last thing to finish before declaring the transition to static publishing complete.

Yet another left behind in the drafts bin from June 2020. Including today for posterity’s sake.

This is my first post using Markdown and Pelican. Currently https://crossjam.net/ is resolving properly and the content has transferred over. There’s a bunch of redirects, which are a little ugly, but they serve the purpose of dealing with the old WordPress path prefixes. Mass Programming Resistance and New Media Hack (still preserved, bless its heart) are separated out into two different domains.

Now need to work on a good workflow for publishing. The upside is that I can now go with Emacs to create posts, which will accelerate my ability to spit out text. But I’ll need some key bindings to smooth out some of the linking work. Also, need to figure out a comfortable flow to update the production server. Pushing to a git repo seems like a little too much work, although netlify has an interesting take on that path. Maybe for a dev site just to get some experience.

Still(!!) mopping up 2021 leftovers. This one was started in Septermber 2021. Yikes!

So I’ve come back to blogging, maybe not at previous publishing rates, but definitely with some consistency in late(ish) 2021. What gives?

On the day job, I got a big promotion in April (if you can navigate LinkedIn or are decent at Google you can find the details) that’s probably going to steer me to being much less technical at work. I’m gonna need a hacking outlet, thus I’m aiming to do some side projects on my off time. Previously, this blog was more life and media commentary oriented, but I’m hoping to pivot into a better “tech” blogger, whatever that means. At least to me it means more project details and definitely more code.

Specifically I have five independent personal development goals I’m currently working on

1. Mastery of the Python programming language
2. Proficiency in the Go programming language
3. Modernizing developer skills and tools
4. Developing a strong portfolio of publicly data projects
5. Creating an online technical presence

My blogging will help with number 5 but it can also be a driver for solving some technical challenges, such as search indexing of this blog’s content. As Simon Willison points out, working in public has a relatively low bar for online achievement that can be extremely useful in the end.

Fast forward, 5ish months…

Haven’t made as much progress as I’d like on all the above, but I have made some progress. My PyBites profile indicates motion in fits and starts. Plus I’m on the cusp of another milestone, a brown belt, just need to do a few more pesky easy bites. I’ve actually started reading The Go Programming Language. Some of the gaps in understanding from when I was just hacking away on nsq are getting closed. Discogs data hacking is happening (more to come…) and I’ve had a personal epiphany about how to go about building data projects and a portfolio of such.

Dropping the ball on modernizing developer skills and tools, although the PyBites work is forcing some routine git interaction. Still, me and Emacs are joined at the hip.

Gettin’ there.

Still mopping up some 2021 odds and ends.

• Angels With Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson
• Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One, Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben
• These Alien Skies, C. T. Rwizi
• Das Reboot, Raphael Honigstein
• Brilliant Orange, David Winner
• Radicalized, Cory Doctorow
• Football Hackers, Christopher Biermann

December was decidedly better than November. Even though it wasn’t a perfect vacation, managed to take advantage of some holiday downtime. Seven more works completed pushes the year’s total to 42, which isn’t too bad all things considered. Interestingly, this batch didn’t include any self-development or business themed tomes. I need to do a full accounting of the 2021 reading, just for posterity and to have it all in one place.

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Link parkin’: Manticore Search

Lightweight SQL-first database designed for search applications that suits both big and small data collections

More details: Manticore Search: 3 years after forking from Sphinx

Still mopping up some 2021 odds and ends.

• A World Without Email, Cal Newport
• Goal: The Ball Doesn’t Go In By Chance, Ferran Soriano

Well, November turned out to be a dismal completion month. Thought I was going to make a lot of progress during the Thanksgiving holiday, but that turned out to be a dud. With 35 down for the year, I can at least still get to 40 hopefully. More after the break.

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Now in the process of mopping up leftover 2021 posts. Don’t know why I didn’t hit publish on this back in October. At least I was smart enough to not bake the month into the post title.

• Grendel Omnibus, Volume 3, Matt Wagner, et. al.
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells
• Futebol, Alex Bellos
• Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
• Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor

Just a solid month of October. 2021 completed total bumps to 33. Could actually make a stretch goal of 50 this year. More after the break.

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Over a year ago I mentioned some sites to help refresh the Python coding skills. Going on about a year now, I signed up for the PyBites community and the codechalleng.es platform. Working in fits and starts, I’m now actually getting back into consistently solving the bites. Here’s my PyBites profile. Climbing the ladder.

Turns out there are curated “learning path” collections of bites, progressively more difficult. Trying to complete learning paths seems to be the carrot that gets me going. Now that I’ve chewed up a lot of the easier bites, I’m definitely hitting the more challenging ones, those valued for 3 and 4 points. Even though I’m fairly experienced in Python these take a non-trivial amount of time. Sometimes it’s just understanding the actual problem statement but other times I need to put on my thinking cap and solve an intellectual puzzle, which is great!

Definitely a happy customer and can recommend codechalleng.es if you’re looking to build up your Python muscles.

Huge completion haul this month. Some based upon carryover from last but momentum is momentum. Still, there’s a non-negligible number of significant tomes if anyone’s counting. This bump’s the year’s count to 28.

• Grendel Omnibus, Volume 2, Matt Wagner, et. al.
• The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier
• The Barcelona Complex, Simon Kuper
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
• The Last Emperox, John Scalzi
• Thinking In Bets, Annie Duke
• Pep Guardiola The Evolution, Martí Perarnau

Thoughts below the fold.

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For the longest time, I’ve just been piling up data from Discogs.com and not really doing anything with it. Finally, I have a motivating project.

The fine folks at London’s Fabric nightclub have two great series of DJ mix releases, Fabric and FabricLive. Recently I made a bulk purchase of digital versions of 20 mixes. They arrived as .wav files with no metadata attached (that I can tell). Adding all the track metadata is something a computer should do, not a human. No problem, all of that data should be in the Discogs data. I’d also like to create playlists or a playlist DB to start noodling around with MPD as a playlist shuffling jukebox. (Why does the world hate playlists so much?).

So of course this means lots of data munging, wrangling, and management. Which is totally fine. I need some data side projects to help build a data portfolio.

Link parkin’ discogs-xml2db v2 as the way to get the Discogs data into a PosgreSQL db for querying.

Back in the groove for August. The tally will only show four books completed for this month, but there were two more in the hopper that will close this weekend. September should reap five completions if not six.

• Apex, Ramez Naam
• Pep Confidential, Martí Perarnau
• The Expected Goal Philosophy, James Tippett
• The Consuming Fire, John Scalzi

The Consuming Fire won’t make the top of my literary style list, being a big fan of Ursula K. LeGuin and William Gibson. A lot more exposition than I usually like. But fuck if The Consuming Fire (and The Collapsing Empire as well) aren’t fun, easy reads. And damn if Kiva Lagos ain’t a motherfucking hoot!

Apex exemplifies my distate of the technothriller genre. A sprawl of plot arcs, coming and going in fits and starts. Named characters constantly being introduced, without enough room for development. Fetishizing of national security apparati. It’s been a while since I read Nexus and Crux, the other books in the trilogy, but the underlying neuroscientific principles were compelling. Glad I closed out the trilogy but probably not revisiting.

Apparently a key element of the The Expected Goal Philosophy is constantly moaning about how people who haven’t bought into the philosophy are morons. Slightly offputting. The actual details of the stastical approach turn out to be somewhat pedestrian at the end of the day, but good to know about as football evolves. Might have read better as a pure underdog story, similar to Moneyball.

Pep Confidential turned out to be less of a hagiography then I expected, which was good. As a Manchester City fan, I was intrigued by the insights from his prior stop at Bayern Munich. I’m still a newbie regarding football tactics, so Confidential was a very revealing look behind the scenes. Also, quite entertaining given that many of the names involved are still active in world football, like Thiago Alcântara, David Alaba, Mario Mandzukić, Tony Kroos, and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, with the lens of history to see their subsequent paths. Looking forward to reading Perarnau’s follow-up Pep Guardiola, The Evolution.

Apropos Elle Driver, “You know, I’ve always liked that word … hagiography … so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.”

Just wanted to give a quick plug for Amphetamine, a Mac OS X menu bar app that helps control screen saving and more. On any Mac where I create a new account, Amphetamine is in that small collection of “must install” apps. Really well polished with a lot of functionality and free to boot! Thanks William Gustafson.

Motivated by Justin Mayer’s observations about Homebrew Python I’ve been working on using pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv. Still taking a bit of getting used to, but if my virtualenvs don’t get broken I’ll be a happy camper.

Holy Smokes! It’s been 4 years since I’ve done one of these.

13 years since the first post and the first MacBook mention. Now I’ve moved up to a 2020 Apple Silicon MacBook Air. That old White MacBook? It’s still providing service as an Ubuntu 20.04 (Yes, Ubuntu) server, building the html for this here blog.

Link parkin’: panflute

All of this blog’s content is written in Markdown. As a side project, I’m interested in working on a homegrown solution for search. Enter Pandoc for doing some of the heavy lifting on document parsing and generating an Abstract Syntax Tree. Thence to panflute for spitting out into a format that could be indexed using sqlite FTS to get started and then Manticore just for giggles.

Slowed down a bit in July, but with four books completed this month plus the honorably included, that’s six more added to the tally. Nineteen down for 2021.

• The Game of our Lives, David Goldblatt
• Done Deal, Daniel Geey
• The Effective Manager, Mark Horstman
• The Turing Test, Chris Beckett

I respect the writing quality of The Turing Test and indeed, quite a few of the stories were thought provoking: The Turing Test (eponymous short story), La Maccina, The Gates of Troy, Piccadilly Circus, Karel’s Prayer. However, Beckett’s style didn’t really resonate with me.

The Game of Our Lives places English football in a larger and wider social context, especially in times before the Premier League.

The Effective Manager is exceedingly prescriptive, which may or may not be what one needs. Definitely useful at this point in my career.

Done Deal was a pretty mundane explainer for me. A few bits of transfer policy detail were enlightening.

Previously I had noted completing The Grendel Omnibus, Volume1 and The Infinity Gauntlet via Comixology. Normally I don’t include graphic novels in my book reading tallys due to some weird notion that they’re “lightweight”. Grendel was the equivalent of 500 printed pages and Infinity Gauntlet 250. The judges have subsequently determined that they do qualify in this category.

Still making quite good progress on the book reading front. Herewith is the list of completed texts from this June. Just for posterity’s sake.

• Fear and Loathing in La Liga, Side Lowe
• The Club, Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
• Atomic Habits, James Clear
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt
• The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Bayern Agenda, Dan Moren

The Lathe of Heaven pleasantly reminded me of how beautiful Le Guin’s writing can be. Some excellent passages in that book.

Fear and Loathing … is not only a football book but a history book. Learned a lot about Spain.

My only appointment sports viewing is the English Premier League, whose birth and rise is documented in The Club. As a relative newcomer to football, Clegg and Robinson filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. It’s actually sort of amazing (to me) in what bad shape English football was in just 30 years ago. In my mind, the Premier League had just been this historically monstrous behemoth. Not so fast …

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is an excellent business book. 10 years old now, it’s also interesting from a tech perspective because it uses NVIDIA as a case study before the company’s recent AI/ML fueled surge.

Atomic Habits does what it says on the tin and actually provides concrete actionable techniques for constructing enduring positive habits.

Two football books, two science fiction books, and two personal development(ish) books turned out to be a nice mix. I’m trying to replicate that during July.

Thirteen confirmed completions for the year. Thirty total is within reach.

Tweaked the favicon for this site from the glider as hacker emblem, via Conway’s Game of Life, to the lambda from the MIT/GNU Scheme logo. Better represents my ties to M.I.T. and an incredible lecture Gerald Jay Sussman gave my freshman year to close out 6.001 ( alas, a course fallen by the wayside). The finishing topic? Conway’s Game of Life and how to build a Turing complete computer from cellular automata. All in one 90 minute lecture. Virtuoso!

Ashley Beedle dropped off one hell of a birthday present for me:

5 Mag welcomes legendary producer and DJ Ashley Beedle for the second installment of SANCTIFY, showcasing the greatest deep house DJs on Planet Earth.

With SANCTIFY we wanted to get “back to basics — back to the fundamentals of deep house with the DJs who believe in the mysterious and awesome spiritual power of deep house music.”
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We’re also thrilled to announce in our latest issue that Black Science Orchestra is reforming for their “sixth incarnation”

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A long time ago, I was an amateur comic book collector. In a tale soon to be told, I recently purchased an 11” iPad Pro. I don’t really want to get back into buying physical comic books, but I’m interested in revisiting some of the classics and reading some recent critically acclaimed works.

Enter Comixology Unlimited. Comixology itself is a venerable digital comics service that got hoovered up by Amazon a few years back. The basic idea is that there’s a Comixology reader available across multiple devices (Web, iOS, Kindles, etc.). You buy digital versions, to own, of graphic novels and single issues through the Comixology platform. The Unlimited part is straight from the Amazon playbook, a monthly subscription service for a lending library that provides access to a large(?) catalog of titles. The library is a subset of titles available on the entire platform and there’s a relatively generous limit on the number of works you can have “borrowed” at any given time.

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I managed to spark the reading passion once again. First, in January I just picked up the copy of William Gibson’s Agency that had been sitting unread on my bookshelf for months, and started reading. Second, I gave in and began reading books in the Amazon Kindle app on my iPhone. Don’t know what it is, but for some reason that used to feel tawdry. But the best book to read now is the one immediately at hand.

In any event, for recording purposes, here’s the year’s tally so far, in no particular order

• Agency, William Gibson
• All Tommorow’s Parties, William Gibson
• Soccernomics, Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
• The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
• Essentialism, Greg McKeown
• Working Backwards, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
• Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang

I don’t have a particular urge to start doing reviews, but all were enjoyable. Essentialism was a little fluffy, but I align with its sentiments.

In the meantime, there’s a nice stack of physical books in the backlog, not to mention a healthy lineup of ebooks ready for the Kindle app. We’ll see how long this holds and how many I knock out in 2021.

Last Wednesday marked the completion for me of a 54th circumnavigation of the sun aboard this big blue marble. Have to say, as an eve, May 25th 2021 was a heck of a lot better than May 25th 2020.

While I’ve been writing Python code for a while, and even some for my current job, I feel like I’ve sort of lost the pure coder mentality. Work projects don’t involve building fully maintained apps. There’s just lots of little piecemeal components with a lot of quick and dirty hackery. Plus, I’m not up to date on a lot of the newer Python 3 changes and best practices. Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally proficient n Python, but not really a modern coder.

So I’m link parkin’ a few resources to start working with, as a marker for future motivation:

• PyBites and it’s companion coding challenge platform
• Similarly LeetCode but with more focus on coding interview questions via Steven Heidel with guidance on application
• Reuven Lerner’s Python Workout book and Weekly Python Exercise course
• Ken Youens-Clark’s Tiny Python Projects book
• David Beazely online courses or his open source version of Practical Python

Quoting Reuven Lerner:

So what are these resources missing? What is it that’s going to take you from a “good enough” Python programmer to a fluent one that has full command of the language?

Practice. The very sort of practice I offer in Weekly Python Exercise.

I think I’m really out of practice.

I’ve been subscribing to RSS feeds, text and podcasts, forever. As expected various of them go dark on occasion. I still stay subscribed though, just in case.

A few years ago, a favorite podcast of mine was The Architecht Show, by Derrick Harris. At the time he was covering the emerging “cloud native” space and had a lot of great interviews. I suspect he could never find sustainable sponsorship and so had to go on hiatus to make ends meet with a serious day job.

But now he’s back!. Just popping up in my podcatcher (Overcast) as if he’d never been away.

The Architecht Show returns (!) with Replicated co-founder and CEO Grant Miller talking about how his company is enabling KOTS, or Kubernetes-Off-the-Shelf software. We dive into a number of topics around this, including the pitfalls of relying too heavily on SaaS, the popularity of Kubernetes itself, and how laws like Europe’s GDPR are forcing companies to rethink how and where they manage user data.

Welcome back Derrick!

Link parkin’: Mastering JQ: Part1

This is the first part of an ongoing series on mastering jq. This series does not assume prior experience with jq, but it does assume basic fluency in shell programming.

jq is a valuable tool that every fast coder has in their tool chest. It contains depths of immense power. In part 1, we’ll start off with the basics.

For each application of jq, we’ll lead off with an example that you can copy and paste into your shell to see how it works. The rest of the section discusses the application in more detail.

jq is an amazingly useful command line utility for processing JSON content. I’ve probably mentioned it on this blog, but don’t have search wired up to find the previous posts. In any event, it’s definitely a tool that’s worth getting better at using.

Via Code Faster 😄

For a long time, I didn’t really understand Linux’s Logical Volume Manager (LVM), same as Shawn Powers. Luckily he sat down, plowed through, and wrote up a nice tutorial on LVM.

LVM is an incredibly flexible, ridiculously useful and not terribly complicated to use system. It makes life easier. It makes future storage upgrades and migrations simple. Quite simply, I love it. So in this article, I cover the concepts and usage of LVM. By the time I’m done, hopefully you’ll love it as much as I do!

Now I get it! And really appreciate it.