2025-09-29 - Awesome Curated List of Mind Expanding Books ========================================================= I like books, lists of books, and lists of lists of books. I enjoy the Project Awesome lists and wish there were more activity like that in gopherspace plus in Creative Commons culture. Be the change you want to see, eh? On project-awesome.org i found a list Mind Expanding Books by hackerkid. I intend to post a plain text version in my gopherhole. I downloaded the raw README.md from github to convert. I tried Bert Bos's gf-markdown-awk script but it converted the markdown tables to paragraphs. I have this notion that AWK was designed for small one-off scripts and not intended for a bondage & domination coding style. So let's do a one-off script! I decided to use curl, webdump, and awk. Webdump converts table rows to tab-delimited lines. For this document, all of the tables have the same header and column count. I'll simply switch between printing normal lines and flattening (reformatting) the table lines to fit gopher conventions. Here's a link to the script. flatten.awk I invoke it like so: $ URL=https://project-awesome.org/hackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books $ curl -s $URL | webdump | mawk -f flatten.awk >list.txt You can see the results in the link below: Mind Expanding Books See also my other book lists: List of lists of books tags: book,technical Tags ==== book technical