Garry ⁽¹¹⁰⁾

Over the years I've bought a fair few of Packt Publishing's IT books - they're pretty good. Somehow though, I managed to remain blissfuly unaware of their free book a day thingy until recently.

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

It's very good at it's main aim, which is getting people to visit their site frequently. But I'm forgetful so it's best for all concerned if a computer does that for me, and claims my free daily book.

As well as being forgetfull I'm also pretty lazy so I looked for a pre-existing solution, and found this:

https://github.com/draconar/grab_packt

Here's how to install it on a Synology DS115J NAS

Somehow I've been writing code for a living for 20 odd years now. During that time I think I've spent some time as almost all of the stereotypical developer types, including:

• The new guy who thinks he knows better than everyone else.
• The old hand with a whopping two years experience who definitely knows it all now.
• The team leader who has to deal with newbies who think they know everything.

And so on.