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Ive been trying to track down a book I read and loved as a kid and have searched for, but can't remember the author or title, so thought maybe the fediverse could help me track it down.
I read it in the late 80's / early 90's, but I remember the cover art being a bit "old fashioned" so it technically could have been published the 70's or earlier.
The story revolved around a kid/kids moving to (or just spending the summer at) an old American farmhouse that was haunted by the ghost of a young boy in "wild west" style clothes. The main plot is the kids solving the mystery of the ghost boys death, that involved a train heist 100 years earlier and the boy being killed for betraying the gang who did the heist.
I think. like I say, I read it 30+ years ago, but remember loving it and would now love to read it to my kids.
Any ideas out there? Anyone remember a book like that?
#Goodreads #book #novel #readingcommunity #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon #reading
- Swift Argument Parser: a library for elegant and nice parsing of command-line argument
- SwiftSoup: a library used for web scraping
- Creating a full Swift utility as an SPM package rather than Xcode project. I was forced, or rather motivated to do all 3 thanks to my Chinese university studies. In order to download audio material for the official #HSK #book, one needs to go to a website, click a link for the file, and confirm whether you want to download it, for sure! Tage into account that the server is slow, and every such operation takes a minute or something like that, multiply that by the number of tracks and by the number of books. I have discovered that the HSk sites have the exactly same structure, hence I want to build an utility that will scrape the website and download the files for me and my teachers. I want to publish my work to Github so yall can roast the unstructuredmess it is heh. There's always room for improvement.
Hey there!
I'm CKMo, and I'm a taiwanese high fantasy indie author. I'm trying to bring more works with #eastasian influences into western culture via my novels.
You can find all my publishing sites, social media, and discord server in my bio!
#indieauthor #indiebooks #indiefantasy #fantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #writing #novel #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asian #asiancreator #writers #book #books #fantasybook #bookstodon #webnovel #highfantasy @bookstodon
Mastodon has been an amazing source for #book recommendations. A few #books I've read since joining Mastodon that were excellent:
The High House by Jessie Greengrass https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-High-House/Jessie-Greengrass/9781982180119
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything
Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest
Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/factory-girls-michelle-gallen/1140785897
Book details - Macmillan
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—fr...Macmillan
Everything curl
https://everything.curl.dev/
"Everything curl is an extensive guide for all things curl. The project, the command-line tool, the library, how everything started and how it came to be the useful tool it is today. It explains how we work on developing it further, what it takes to use it, how you can contribute with code or bug reports and why millions of existing users use it.
#linux #curl #book #reference
Hemos decidido que el proyecto se llame "ComeLibros Club", un pequeño club de lectura donde recomendarnos libros que nos hayan emocionado, hecho reír, etc.
Registros abiertos en https://comelibros.club
#Book #BookWrym #ComeLibrosClub #ClubLectura #Libros #Llibres #Libro
#asian #aapiliterature #aapimastodon #aapi #book #bookstodom #audiobook #nonfiction @bookstodon
![A trans flag colour background, and an image of the cover of the book Gender Euphoria, accompany quotes from reviews of the book.
"Earlier in my life and transition, Gender Euphoria would be the book that I needed. It's a diverse collection of trans and non-binary perspectives that managed to be more positive than many "Trans Tauma Porn" collections out there, in that it shows the sunnier side of transition" - Chelsea Manning.
"Every page is a little present! A timely reminder of the value of trans lives, and the urgent need to improve the conditions in which we are made to live them" - Abigail Thorne.
"Gender Euphoria really up-ends the baked-in narrative about pain and unhappiness, Instead, these young writers look at life through the other end of the telescope and [...] find the things to rejoice about being set free from the shackles of gender conformity... This book will inspire you" - Christine Burns.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/377961 "A trans flag colour background, and an image of the cover of the book Gender Euphoria, accompany quotes from reviews of the book.
\"Earlier in my life and transition, Gender Euphoria would be the book that I needed. It's a diverse collection of trans and non-binary perspectives that managed to be more positive than many \"Trans Tauma Porn\" collections out there, in that it shows the sunnier side of transition\" - Chelsea Manning.
\"Every page is a little present! A timely reminder of the value of trans lives, and the urgent need to improve the conditions in which we are made to live them\" - Abigail Thorne.
\"Gender Euphoria really up-ends the baked-in narrative about pain and unhappiness, Instead, these young writers look at life through the other end of the telescope and [...] find the things to rejoice about being set free from the shackles of gender conformity... This book will inspire you\" - Christine Burns.")
I'm working on an introductory #book about #decentralisation protocols. 🦄
It serves as a taster for different technologies, and provides you with a path forward to deepen your studies if you're so inclined.
I'll cover #ActivityPub, #Hyper, #IPFS, and #SSB. Each chapter is a brief intro and a hands-on project using #JavaScript.
The book will be CC licensed. If that sounded interesting, add yourself to the interested readers list at:
https://leanpub.com/four-decentralisation-protocols
Four Decentralisation Protocols
Join me in an exciting journey to learn about peer-to-peer technologies by building four small decentralisation projects using JavaScript.leanpub.com
🔵a #book lover
🔵mildly #burnedout but trying to take it easy 😊
🔵a #cat lover (sharing my place with 1 fluffy terrorist)
🔵#choleric (actively working on my tantrums though) 😂
🔵a good #communicator
🔵#compassionate
🔵#curious
🔵#Czech
🔵an #effectivealtruist (I translated Toby Ord's The Precipice into Czech)
🔵#empathic
🔵a #feminist
🔵#friendly
🔵a #linguistics nerd
🔵a #liberal
🔵a language #teacher
🔵a literary #translator
🔵very much in love with @stepan
🔵 a #woman