Here is a sample of a PowerShell script that I use for finding text in files, having “grown up” with a more Unix-like syntax. I know, this isn’t exactly a clone of grep‘s functionality, but it gets me closer than having to remember exactly how to wrangle PowerShell’s Select-String commands to my liking. Note that […]
Most Wanted, by Rae Carson
Yay! Another new Star Wars book – this one in support of Solo: A Star Wars Story. That movie gave us some backstory to Han Solo; this novel gives us more and sheds light on the history between him and Qi’ra as well as (the first?) mention of an ancient Jedi manuscript, The Annals of […]
Darktown, by Thomas Mullen
Atlanta Georgia, 1948 – quite a different city than we know today. Darktown is a historical novel telling the story of the first negro police officers here; men with what has always been a difficult job, made even tougher given the racial bias of the time. Many pages were, like those of Colson Whitehead’s Underground […]
Getting highlighted text from the Amazon Kindle [update]
on October 25, 2011 I wrote a post on Getting highlighted text from the Amazon Kindle. Most of that still applies, but Amazon has changed several pages’ address and formatting. The info formerly at “your books” is now read.amazon.com, and “your highlights” is now “your notes and highlights” at read.amazon.com/notebook.
Enabling FTP Server on Windows 10
Almost every article “out there” on setting up an FTP Server on Windows 10 starts with using the “Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to open the Power User control panel” – which doesn’t seem to work/exist on my computer – or to some “Administrative Tools” control panel applet – which also doesn’t exist here. […]
The Women of Easter, 1916
Easter Rising, Enniscorthy 1916: writing about a revolution (Irish Times, 26 Mar 2016): Three writers remember three women – George O’Brien his grandaunt Greta Comerford, Roddy Doyle his grandaunt Una Brennan and Colm Tóibín his neighbour Marion Stokes Una Brennan, about whom Roddy Doyle writes in this article, was my great-grandmother. My mom was named […]
Searching Evernote
I use Evernote. A lot. I’d consider it to be a backup for my brain, except that often it’s more like the primary storage instead of backup. Recipes, lists of books, notes on projects, and much more gets dumped into Evernote for future reference. Of course, reference requires good methods for browsing and searching. The […]
Using datatables.js with Get()
It’s been a while since I’ve posted in the Software Development category, but here’s the solution to something that’s been a thorn in my team’s side for a few days. We’re working with datatables.js, which provides a nice interface to tabular data. We’re using it to Get() data from an API we’re building, and out […]
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
quoting another reviewer: Between the World and Me is written as a letter/essay from Coates to his fifteen-year-old son, trying to come to terms with what it means to grow up as an African American male in 2015. …no sugar-coating, no careful racial diplomacy, no worry about mediating opinions to cater to what white people […]
Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi
More zombie cows, this time in the United States. It sounds like one of those books you think will be silly, gross and the perfect book for middle-school boys. And yes, that is true, but there’s more to Zombie Baseball Beatdown. “There could be millions! Total zombie apocalypse!” Joe said then he looked thoughtful. “That […]