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Humble Tech Book Bundle: Mastering Every Database by Packt Purchased on Jan 25, 2025 About the Bundle This bundle includes the following books: SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices by Steve Hughes, Dennis Neer, Dr. Ram Babu Singh Mastering PostgreSQL 17 by Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services by Steven Hughes Learn PostgreSQL by Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi Getting Started with CockroachDB by Kishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna MongoDB Fundamentals by Amit Phaltankar, Juned Ahsan, Michael Harrison, Liviu Nedov SQL Server 2019 Administrator’s Guide by Marek Chmel, Vladimír Mužný Redis Stack for Application Modernization by Luigi Fugaro, Ortensi Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration by Ahmad Osama, Shakya Learn T-SQL Querying by Pedro Lopes, Lahoud SQL for Data Analytics by Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook by GIANNI CIOLLI, Boriss Mejías, Jimmy Angelakos, Vibhor Kumar Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery by Ahmad Osama SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization by Benjamin Nevarez Learn SQL Database Programming by Josephine Bush Amazon DynamoDB - The Definitive Guide by Dhingra, Mackay The MySQL Workshop by Thomas Pettit, Scott Cosentino The Applied SQL Data Analytics Workshop by Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston Database Design and Modeling with Google Cloud by Sukumaran

Context Now that I’m getting into the swing of using Obsidian, and realizing how powerful the tool can be for organizing my busy meetings at work, I wanted to start using Obsidian in my work day. But without allowing my employer-issued MacBook to have full access to my iCloud drive. I’d originally set up my vault to sync to iCloud to make it easy (and free) to sync to my mobile devices, which are also all Apple devices. ...

Background I’ve been a zsh user for a long time, both on Linux (where it’s not the default) and OS X macOS (where it now is the default). The first thing I used to do on new machines is port all of my .oh-my-zsh stuff over. Oh My Zsh is not bad! This is not mean to slam the project at all. But I’ve recently (Jan 2025) upgraded to a new Mac Mini M4 and I thought maybe I should see what else is out there. If there’s something that’s good enough without being quite as large in size. ...

Context While I’m not a VR expert by any means, my first experience was around 1995. I have owned the Meta Quest 2, and currently own the Meta Quest Pro and the Apple Vision Pro. I’ve been an Apple stan since owning my first Apple computer, an Apple IIe. I pre-ordered my Apple Vision Pro within a few minutes of Apple opening up orders online. I received my unit on day 1, and have used it almost every day since (except when traveling). My opinion of the device and the user experience is very complicated. ...

Premise Most sites have an “about” page that doesn’t change much. It’s usually not very interesting, especially for a personal blog like magnus919.com. A “now” page reminds me a bit of the old .plan file back in the paleo-internet days where finger was everyone’s favorite command-line federated social network platform. The basic premise of the now page is that it’s very fresh, very current, and it’s more about what is going on in your life right now. ...

The Problem Embed Mastodon posts (toots) into Hugo content for context. The Solution Bryce Wray provides the code. But this didn’t look right on my PaperMod theme. So I tried something different. Put this into layouts/shortcodes/toot.html: And invoke like this: The Example Magnus Hedemark @[email protected] I haven’t been posting a lot on #Mastodon since diving into #Bluesky. One of the things I’ve been enjoying recently is getting more hands-on with #ESP32 & #ESPhome. I’m learning how to pull data from sensors and use attached displays. Also integrating with #HomeAssistant. This prototype is building up towards hacking a Big Mouth Billy Bass novelty toy. But I’d also like to build a really anachronistic digital instrument display for my vintage Harley-Davidson project motorcycle. #makers ...

Resources GitHub geerlingguy/mini-rack - Affiliated with Jeff Geerling’s excellent YouTube channel. JaredC01/LabStack Reddit r/minilab YouTube Jeff Geerling Jeff Geerling runs a number of homelab-friendly YouTube channels. On his main channel, he introduced Project MINI RACK. He often does a lot of his earlier play/work/experiments on secondary channels. So 8 months prior, he published this video: Raid Owl

This site is going to start showing more small “notes” that will usually be without a cover image or heavy composition. I’m working on a workflow for keeping notes in Obsidian while easily exporting my notes in one direction from Obsidian to Hugo. As I work through the book Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte, these pages will show referential links back and forth to one another. ...

About the Bundle This bundle includes the following books: Machine Learning Engineering with Python by Andrew P. McMahon # Building LLM Powered Applications by Valentina Alto XGBoost for Regression Predictive Modeling and Time Series Analysis by Partha Pritam Deka, Joyce Weiner Mastering NLP from Foundations to LLMs by Gazit, Meysam Ghaffari Mastering PyTorch by Ashish Ranjan Jha Python Feature Engineering Cookbook by Soledad Galli Hands-On Genetic Algorithms with Python by Eyal Wirsansky The Machine Learning Solutions Architect Handbook by David Ping Causal Inference and Discovery in Python by Aleksander Molak TinyML Cookbook by Gian Marco Iodice RAG-Driven Generative AI by Denis Rothman 15 Math Concepts Every Data Scientist Should Know by David Hoyle Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn by Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili Machine Learning with R by Brett Lantz Bayesian Analysis with Python by Martin Causal Inference in R by Subhajit Das Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity by Bojan Kolosnjaji, Huang Xiao, Peng Xu, Apostolis Zarras Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python by Manu Joseph, Jeffrey Tackes Python Machine Learning By Example by Yuxi (Hayden) Liu LLM Engineer’s Handbook by Paul Iusztin, Maxime Labonne Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On by Maxim Lapan

About the Bundle This bundle includes the following books: Maybe This Will Help by Michelle Rial Goodbye Phone, Hello World by Paul Greenberg, Emiliano Ponzi Calm Living by Olga Trusova Stop Anxiety from Stopping You by Helen Odessky Stop Fear from Stopping You by Helen Odessky Joy From Fear by Carla Marie Manly Fearvana by Akshay Nanavati The Anti-Anxiety Diet by by Ali Miller Why Smart, Creative and Highly Sensitive People Hurt by Eric Maisel Conquering Your State of Anxiety by Kirsten Pagacz Conquering Your State of Anxiety by Kirsten Pagacz Rest Easy by Ximena Vengoechea How Do You Feel? by Edgar Gerrard Hughes All About ADHD by Thomas W. Phelan, PhD Why Smart People Hurt by Eric Maisel The Worthy Mind by Meadow DeVor Painfully Shy by Barbara Markway, Gregory P. Markway The Financial Anxiety Solution by Lindsay Bryan-Podvin Phobias and How to Overcome Them by James Gardner, Arthur H. Bell Anxious to Please by James Rapson, Craig English Keep Pain in the Past by Chris Cortman, Joseph Walden Hijacked by Your Brain by Julian Ford, Jon Wortmann Mini ADHD Coach by Alice Gendron Hack Your Anxiety by Alicia H. Clark The Good Enough Guide to Better Living by Alison Throckmorton The Undercover Edge by Derrick Levasseur Depression Hates a Moving Target by Nita Sweeney Communicate with Courage by Michelle Gladieux