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Loved this chapter, great design, well written.
Re:Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing? on Thursday August 04, 2022 @01:15PM (#32345597)
I found "Writing Without Bullshit" helpful. https://withoutbullshit.com/book
Re:Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read? on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:48PM (#24923330)
Apache arrow
Re:Asciidoctor on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:27PM (#24850619)
Wrote 3 technical books [1] with asciidoctor, love it! Simple format, easy to include code, builds PDF, ePUB, mobi ...

[1] https://gumroad.com/tebeka

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:08PM (#23181225)
Wrote too (small) books so far - Go Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT) - Python Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT)

Working on the 3rd ...

Re:Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice? on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:45AM (#19651164)
Re:Using Vim as a Python IDE on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:43PM (#13538315)
I heard good things about http://vim.spf13.com/
Peter Norvig's Spell Checker http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

A lot of other code he writes as well.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs? on Sunday January 18, 2015 @10:49PM (#8910196)
One way to network is to go to job interviews. Be open about the fact that you're mostly interested in contracting and maybe you'll consider joining after a time (which is true in my case - there's a lot of overhead in contracting).
Re:Python 3 is killing Python on Monday May 26, 2014 @12:16PM (#7800353)
People forget that doing backward breaking changes take a while. Python 3 was released at the end of 2008, 2 years after Java 6. How many systems you know still run on Java 5?
Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back on Saturday August 03, 2013 @11:16AM (#6152316)
Two things: 1. IMO sup (http://supmua.org/) is more mature and does about the same. However it's interface is a curses based one which is a plus and a minus. 2. Why not use an existing search products (like xapian)?
Re:Want To Be More Productive? - Improve Your I/O on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:01AM (#5737438)
If you have more ways to improve your I/O - please share :)

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