markjgsmith

Today’s links:

• Amazon fires - 'Our house is burning', Macron warns ahead of G7www.bbc.com #

• Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline - Really great programming article, I use readline everyday, was aware it existed but most of the detail was new to metwobithistory.org #

• How To Use Bash Parameter Substitution Like A Pro - I’ve read the section covering this topic in the bash manual several times but it never sticks, I regularly use a few of these - these are great examples, now I have a few more items on my tool belt :)www.cyberciti.biz #

• How to pass bash arrays as function args - I’ve been having issues with this recently, the issue arises because bash always expands the variable, turns out in bash 4.3 it’s possible to pass by reference, also works for associative arrays - Still quite a lot to have to think about when doing something that is trivial in other languages, anyway at least it’s possible, maybe this new method will mean I stop instinctively avoiding arrays because until now they have been very difficult for me to handlestackoverflow.com #

• How to Start Earning Your Side-income as a Developerwww.freecodecamp.org #

• The Amazon is on fire - how bad is it?www.bbc.com #

• Red Arrows stage display over New York Citywww.bbc.com #

• The Double Dishonesty of Boris Johnson’s Brexit Proposals - I'm no expert in this matter, but reading this it seems to me that if anyone was to impose border checks in northern Ireland it would probably be the EUwww.newyorker.com #

• A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Stationwww.theregister.co.uk #

• Emmanuel Macron says he will block EU trade deal with Brazil over Amazon forest fireswww.independent.co.uk #