Some Resources I find cool/useful

Software:

• Operating System: PopOS 22.04 LTS. I find this works wonderfully for my needs. I use the standard Gnome with PopOS extensions, and a couple more as well.
• Terminal Emulator: Wezterm. It's a nice terminal; I haven't experiemented with many more(I did try out Alacritty), and I find this nice and comfy.
• Shell: zsh. I chose zsh over bash(because of modernity) and over fish(because of backward compatibility). It works well, and I do use some extensions such as zsh-syntax-highlighting and git-prompt.
• Common GNU CoreUtils(and other CLI tools) and their alternatives: Some of these are just way better, hands down.
  • eza (ls)
  • fastfetch (neofetch)
  • bat (cat)
  • helix (vim/emacs)
  • btm and htop(both are super useful)
  • tldr (man); not an alternative - but useful nonetheless
  • typst (LaTeX)
• Some other software that I find really useful, but not necessarily related to GNU, and in no particular order.
  • Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator
  • Bottles - Nice software to properly use bottles(sandboxing and all)
  • Zen Browser - a modern browser based off of firefox
  • Bitwarden - password manager(maybe I should migrate?)
  • MuseScore - music notation software
  • Ableton - Music production software (NOT FOSS!!)
  • Ente - Google photos alternative
  • Arduino - to start out with basic electronics
  • Vivado - to program FPGAs (NOT FOSS!!)
  • iverilog - A verilog simulator
  • pandoc - universal document converter
  • ffmpeg - audio and video tool
  • yt-dlp - CLI audio/video downloader
  • rclone - rsync for cloud storage
  • asciinema - terminal recorder
  • binsider - A tool to analize ELF binaries
  • hexdump - display file contents in hex, decimal, octal or ascii
  • heh - a more colorful hexedit
  • WireShark - a network protocol analyzer
  • nchat - terminal based messaging frontend client

Books I've read(in no particular order)

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) - J.K. Rowling: The starter pack for novels. I too, started out with this series. Loved it quite a bit(for my teenage brain).
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) - J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) - J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) - J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) - J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) - J.K. Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) - J.K. Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016) - Jack Thorne and J.K. Rowling
9. Percy Jackson; The Lightning Thief (2005) - Rick Riordan: After Harry Potter, I began to read this series, which is similar in adventure and taste.
10. Percy Jackson; The Sea of Monsters (2006) - Rick Riordan
11. Percy Jackson; The Titan's Curse (2007) - Rick Riordan
12. Percy Jackson; The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008) - Rick Riordan
13. Percy Jackson; The Last Olympian (2009) - Rick Riordan
14. Heroes of Olympus; The Lost Hero (2010) - Rick Riordan
15. Heroes of Olympus; The Son of Neptune (2011) - Rick Riordan
16. Heroes of Olympus; The Mark of Athena (2012) - Rick Riordan
17. Heroes of Olympus; The House of Hades (2013) - Rick Riordan
18. Heroes of Olympus; The Blood of Olympus (2014) - Rick Riordan
19. The Trials of Apollo; The Hidden Oracle (2016) - Rick Riordan
20. The Trials of Apollo; The Dark Prophecy (2017) - Rick Riordan
21. The Trials of Apollo; The Burning Maze (2018) - Rick Riordan
22. The Trials of Apollo; The Tyrant's Tomb (2019) - Rick Riordan
23. The Trials of Apollo; The Tower of Nero (2020) - Rick Riordan
24. The Kane Chronicles; The Red Pyramid (2010) - Rick Riordan
25. The Kane Chronicles; The Throne of Fire (2011) - Rick Riordan
26. The Kane Chronicles; The Serpent's Shadow (2012) - Rick Riordan
27. Magnus Chase; The Sword of Summer (2015) - Rick Riordan
28. Magnus Chase; The Hammer of Thor (2016) - Rick Riordan
29. Magnus Chase; The Ship of the Dead (2017) - Rick Riordan
30. A couple of Geronimo Stilton books
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) - Roald Dahl: A fascinating and humorous novel.
32. Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) - Jules Verne: This, even though it's really old(1864!), is a really interested read.
33. Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet (1887) - Arthur Conan Doyle: My first mystery-murder novel. It's a really good read.
34. Five Point Someone (2004) - Chetan Bhagat: An immersive, yet not completely truthful, read for the life of a college student.
35. One Night at the Call Center (2005) - Chetan Bhagat: One of the first books that I read that was completely different to the usual ones I read. It just outlines one night at a particular call center; no adventure, no murder, no mystery; which was a new type of genre(that I hadn't previously gone into).
36. Three Men in a Boat (1889) - Jerome K. Jerome: A genuinely humourous novel; one of its kind dare I say.
37. The Silent Patient (2019) - Alex Michaelideas: An intriguing psychological thriller. It's a book to be read at least twice.
38. How I Taught My Grandmother to Read (2004) - Sudha Murty: A brilliant collection of beautiful short stories.
39. The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk (2012) - Sudha Murty: Another amazing collection of short stories.
40. Grandma's Bag of Stories (2012) - Sudha Murty: Yet Another collection of short stories.(You know, it's starting to seem like the modern Panchatantra).
41. Dollar Bahu (2013) - Sudha Murty: A truly engrossing book. It feels like one of those Indian Drama's(Serials), but in the form of a novel.
42. Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell: A satirical dystopian allegorical novella. Quite short, but lovely nonetheless. Could've been a longer novel in my opinion.
43. And Then There Were None (1939) - Agatha Christie: Returning to the centuries' old books, this classic is the perfect murder mystery novel. You basically can't "figure" it out, one reason might be that it is in the third person, so it's not very personal.

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