I had to learn Linux CLI tools, Vim and Perl at my very first job. Have a soft spot for Perl, despite not using it much these days other than occasional one-liners (mainly for advanced regex features).

See also: https://github.com/pllk/cphb (Competitive Programmer's Handbook)

Hopefully less than this year. I'm reading too many (100+) and that's reflecting in my reduced time on actual work (self-employed).

I have a list of curated resources here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/

There are sections for beginners, intermediate, advanced, etc. Also included are exercises, projects, debugging, testing, and many more stuff. Hope it helps :)

It's the name of the constructor, for example:

const pat1 = new RegExp(`42//?5`)

So, I used that in the book name.

Check out https://github.com/HollyAdele/awesome-programming-for-kids

If you are looking for books, check out:

Intermediate:

• Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python — Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques, OOP, Practice Projects
• Pydon'ts — Write elegant Python code, make the best use of the core Python features
• Python Distilled — this pragmatic guide provides a concise narrative related to fundamental programming topics such as data abstraction, control flow, program structure, functions, objects, and modules

Advanced:

• Fluent Python — takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time
• Serious Python — deployment, scalability, testing, and more
• Practices of the Python Pro — learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale, includes examples for software development best practices
• Intuitive Python — productive development for projects that last

I have a book for Perl One-Liners as well, which I'm currently revising :)

I've written books on regex too, if you are interested in learning ;)

I've read his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. Epic dark fantasy, great characters and worldbuilding. The plot is good too, but the pacing goes off rail sometimes.

I mostly read on Kindle Unlimited. A lot of the progression fantasy and cozy fantasy books are on KU (my current favorite subgenres), so there's no shortage of books to read. In addition, there's plenty of self-pub fantasy and sci-fi books (there are two competitions: SPFBO and SPSFC which help in finding good ones to read).

https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor - automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng, https://pngquant.org/ and https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner for optimizing images