jacobian

I asked for book recommendations on the fediverse and oh my goodness got so many suggestions. I wanted to share the list of all that came up in case others want to dig into this stuff. I asked specifically for

• naturalist writing a la Muir or Abbey but about Alaska (I picked up Arctic Dreams but want more)
• time travel / multiverse stuff, like Sliding Doors etc
• great heists, fiction or non-
• fiction featuring non-traditional families (queer, poly, etc.)
• fantasy with really weird or different systems of magic, like Max Gladstone's Craft series

So most of this is falls into one of these themes, but also some stuff doesn't. I made this list quickly and sloppily, please forgive mispellings, missing author names, etc. Here's the list, sorted first by most common recs then alpha by title.

RReverser

choco list --limit-output
# Extract name and find corresponding winget package
| ForEach-Object -Parallel {
    $chocoName = $_.Split('|')[0]
    Get-WinGetPackage $chocoName -Count 1 |% {
        @{
            'chocoName' = $chocoName
            'wingetPackage' = $_.Name
        }
    }

tallesairan

How to unpack .wpress archive files created by the All-in-one-Wp-Migration Wordpress plugin

Recently I needed to download some files from a Wordpress installation where the client only gave me access to the admin dashboard. Fortunately the All-in-One WP Migration plugin was already installed, so I could take a quick backup of the whole site by downloading the installed plugins, theme and database. To my surprise downloading the backup from the All-in-One WP Migration plugin only gave me a single compressed migration.wpress file that any unpack tool refused to extract. A little web search brought me to a five year old tool called Wpress-Extractor but the provided binaries for MacOS refused to work because the package was already too old.

So I decided to rewrite this little helpful tool in Node.js to make it cross-platform compatible for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Ok here it is: A simple 2-step tutorial how to extract a file with the .wpress extension on your computer:

1. Step

mihow

if [ ! -f .env ]
then
  export $(cat .env | xargs)
fi