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The Stone Sky: Better

After midnight I finished book 3 of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky. I liked this book more than the second one, and in my opinion it's as good as the first book; a highly recommended read.

If you like this series you might like the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson which consists of:

1. Mistborn. Also known as Mistborn: The Final Empire or simply as The Final Empire.
2. The Well of Ascension.
3. The Hero of Ages.

I love the unique magic system in this series.

• book
• science fantasy

Children of Time

In the afternoon I started in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. I saw this book listed on Staffsource: Ars staffers share their favorite books to get lost in this summer and got curious.

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• science fiction

Cat resting in the shadows

On our way back from the town centre my mother and I encountered a cat resting in the shadows of some bushes. I took a few photos and petted the cat. We had seen it before and it's very friendly and has no problem approaching strangers.

• cat

Show PATH entries one per line

PATH entries are separated by colons. By replacing each colon with a new line character we get each entry on a line by itself; a task for tr:

echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n'

• command line

How to write a good C main function

In this article, I'll explain how to structure a C file and write a C main function that handles command line arguments like a champ.

How to write a good C main function an article by Erik O'Shaughnessy.

• c

Make directories and change to the last one created

The following command makes several directories and changes into the last one created:

mkdir -p ~/foo/bar/baz && cd $_

In this example the current working directory is baz.

mkdir -p ~/foo/{baz,qux} && cd $_

And in this example the current working directory is qux.

In both cases you can verify the path of the current working directory with the pwd command.

• command line

Building GoAccess from source on Ubuntu

In the evening I blogged about how I built GoAccess from source on Ubuntu.

• website
• command line
• linux

Removing duplicate lines with awk

A one liner to remove duplicate lines from a text file while preserving the original order using awk:

awk '!seen[$0]++' in.txt > out.txt

Source: How to remove duplicate lines from files keeping the original order, which explains how this works and discusses alternatives.

• awk
• command line

The Stone Sky

After midnight I started in book 3 of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky.

• book
• science fantasy

CSS Grid Generator

I noticed a lot of people weren't using Grid because they felt it was too complicated and they couldn't understand it. Grid is capable of so much, and this small generator only touches on a fraction of the features. The purpose of this is so people get up and running quickly, and create more interesting layouts.

Give the online CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner a spin.

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LaTeX Table Generator

Generate LaTeX tables online. Other tables supported are HTML, Text, Markdown, and MediaWiki.

• latex

The Obelisk Gate: good

In the early afternoon I finished The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin. While in my opinion not as engaging as the first book in the series it's still a very well written story. Recommended.

• book
• science fantasy

SSH Public Key Authentication How To

I wrote a short how to on SSH public key authentication.

• ssh