| James King
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After all these years I have decided to tidy up my computing devices and make replacing/restoring them easier. One way to do this is by creating a Brew bundle that makes reinstalling all of my apps easier. It is pretty simple really if you use Homebrew as your package manager. This command output a list […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original December 1, 2015. Worldreaders is a U.S. non-profit organization using “quiet tech” — technologies that disappear with their environment — to deploy digital libraries around the world. Worldreader’s digital catalog of books contains 6,699 titles with an average readership of 184,000 people per month. By deploying e-ink readers, Worldreaders […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 30, 2015. The Navy Department Library was established by a letter from President John Adams to the first Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddard in 1800. It was established to be the most comprehensive naval library of its kind. Today it is housed at the Washington Navy Yard […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 29, 2015. The Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy, is interesting for many reason, not least of which is its fantastic architecture. Most importantly, the Laurentian Library holds the oldest manuscript of Herodotus’ Histories. Sources:Laurentian LibraryThe Older, the Better: Forging a Neo-Pagan Tradition in Co-Production with Christianity and Islam| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 28, 2015. The Washington University Library in St. Louis is the third-largest holder of Jefferson’s books. They received the Jefferson collection through a donation in 1880, but it took 131 years to identify and confirm the original owner of these books was Thomas Jefferson. This collection contains what […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 27, 2015. Originally built in 1876, the Library of Parliament is an architectural marvel. With flying buttresses on the outside and a stunning interior, one might say it is too nice a facility for the sole use of politicians. The library contains 600,000 items covering a couple hundred […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 26, 2015.After the British sacking of Washington D.C. in 1815, Thomas Jefferson sold his extensive library to Congress. This formed the basis for what is now the Library of Congress. Today, Jeffersons books are setup as its own exhibit inside the Library of Congress. Sources:Library of Congress: Jefferson's LibrarySale [...]| James King
I use macOS a lot for various tasks. I have tried doing everything on Linux, but it always becomes an issue, especially with Linux on the desktop and ecosystem as a whole. But all of that is for another post. I run a batch job that uses Selenium to scrape a report out of a [...]| James King
