Nice exercise, and as a local solution obviously better than all this "give your data and trust me" stuff. But why must everything nowadays be a browser-based tool? I'm still happy with tools like pdfunite from https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
totally understand. I think distribution on the Web is a lot easier than building desktop applications for Linux/Mac/Windows.
Also, sometimes I need to merge pdfs when I'm on my Android device, which would be another target to build an application for. Web makes it easy for me across a huge variety of devices
In Android I usw Termux which is a more or less Debian installation. But I understand that it's some kind of "generation conflict" where younger developers are more web centric than oldtimers, who know about the command line among other things ;-0
Minor nit: the input on mobile auto-capitalizes, so a link starts with "Www" which I find mildly annoying. You could force the input field all lowercase with
Oh, "once upon a time" I did set emacs to be my login "shell" and emacs can call other binaries via execve, handle sub processes, etc. Worked as expected.
Getting a Linux or Unix system to boot without a proper shell would be another complication, so a system completely without a she'll? I expect that to either be easy nor useful.
The [[…]] built-in test version was introduced in Peter Korn's korn shell, ksh88 IIRC. As where various other modernized notations like array variables, process substitution or
$(command)
as a much more readable version of the backquotes version.
Good read thanks. I totally can relate to the choices problem. It's rather easy with physical books (or was, as we have little room left for even more books ;-0) but ebooks are "dangerous" too.
Regarding cameras, it's harder (and more expensive) to wrangle with gear acquisition syndrome (GAS) but after switching from Canon EOS to Fuji, because the Canon stuff was too heavy when hiking, I managed to restrain myself most of the time. Because the question always is whether my images would become better with different gear or with more trial and error.
I opted for trial and error and eagerly watch a selected number of YouTube channels who almost always show me that I should and can improve myself and not my gear.
Thanks a lot! Yes, I agree that it is easier with physical books although even there I can already see that I may be painting myself into a corner. But ebooks are obviously "worse" in that regard. I loved when I found StandardEbooks.org and Gutenberg - all these classic books for free. But over time I have realized that I have so many of them on my kindle and always seems to find new ones rather than finishing existing.
With regards to cameras, I also came to Fuji although from Nikon. But I agree, the important part is getting better at photography and the better you know your camera the more it can become an extension of yourself.
There is just something very alluring about the daydream of having the new camera and taking those "perfect" images. When in fact nothing is keeping me from going out and shooting those "perfect" images with the camera I already have.
Geo fenced Wikipedia exists already, as a number of apps are available which offer regional maps with localized Wikipedia additions, see for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAnd
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