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Armand Halbert

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57 from 2 Apr 2013 to 18 May 2026
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2026 7

  1. Cassandra at the Wedding
  2. Computing in the Era of Doom: What Were PCs Like in 1993?
  3. Vim + Markdown = Writer's Heaven
  4. If You Write a Series of Blog Posts, Please Link Them at the Beginning
  5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  6. Nightwood
  7. Cribsheet

2025 3

  1. Expecting Better
  2. Forever Open, Clear and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront
  3. Notes on Early Chicago

2024 13

  1. Lives of Girls and Women
  2. Born Standing Up
  3. The Warden
  4. Shopgirl
  5. The Sorrows of Young Werther
  6. A Gentle Introduction to Metaethics
  7. The Time Machine
  8. American Pharaoh: The Life and Times of Richard J. Daley of Chicago - Part III
  9. Mayor: The Life and Times of Richard J. Daley of Chicago - Part II
  10. Boss: The Life and Times of Richard J. Daley of Chicago - Part I
  11. The Garden Party and Other Stories
  12. Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy
  13. The Ten Commandments of Refactoring

2023 14

  1. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
  2. The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition
  3. Family and Borghesia
  4. The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion
  5. The Castle of Otranto
  6. Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
  7. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
  8. Fast Joins in Apache Beam
  9. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
  10. It's Our Turn to Eat: Corruption in Modern Kenya
  11. The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business
  12. A Personal Data Architecture for Fun and Profit
  13. Mobility Hubs Toolkit
  14. The House of the Dead

2017 1

  1. Assigning an AWS Elastic IP In Place

2016 2

  1. Doom
  2. Interstellar

2015 7

  1. Labyrinth
  2. From Bash to Zsh
  3. Modern Romance
  4. Lord Of War
  5. Introducing Vimjects
  6. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
  7. Alfred Baseconverter

2014 2

  1. My time at the NIH
  2. Openhatch Workshop

2013 8

  1. Installing Tern for Vim
  2. Adding the Weather to the tmux status bar
  3. On Sorting Badly
  4. Interview Retrospective
  5. Her Fearful Symmetry
  6. Melancholia
  7. Cashback
  8. Hackers and the Politics of Identity