Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals

https://www.perl.com/article/extracting-the-list-of-o-reilly-animals/

by asicsp • 5 years ago

86 23 5 years ago

roland35• 5 years ago

Here is a link to the full .json file with all the titles and animals: https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cd...

grahamlee• 5 years ago

Interestingly the title _Learning Cocoa_ (colophon says the animal is an Irish Setter, as is the cover of _Cocoa in a Nutshell_) is missing. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa/059...

faitswulff2• 5 years ago

Huh, why are the images gifs?

frakt0x90• 5 years ago

gif is lossless for images with < 256 colors and good for sharp-edged art according to this.

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compressi...

That would be my guess.

pony_soprano• 5 years ago

I love O'Reilly's animals. Especially their original tarsier.

jonshariat• 5 years ago

I don't see my book listed there. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/978149192...

Is this specific to programming topics?

cafard• 5 years ago

He does not give an exhaustive list, rather the head of a couple of lists, and a couple of lists matching on one attribute or another. The animal on your cover looks like a Portuguese man of war, which would not match the "ama" search on animal, and of course your title does not include Perl.

smlckz• 5 years ago

* ''Women armament workers'' (Linux Cookbook)

* ''Woman Blacksmith'' (Linux Networking Cookbook)

* ''Woman on Circus Trapeze'' (Network Security Tools)

huh! not animals!!

slobotron• 5 years ago

Article comments on this nearly immediately:

even if “animals” is a bit of a loose term that encompasses “Catholic Priests” (Ethics of Big Data) or “Soldiers or rangers, with rifles” (SELinux).

bombcar• 5 years ago

Technically depending on who you ask, women are a subset of human which is a subset of animal.

apocalypstyx• 5 years ago

Humans are animals, too. Read Your Darwin!

staplung• 5 years ago

What about the database?

https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now...

RcouF1uZ4gsC• 5 years ago

Show me a paginated resources and I’ll show you the program I automated to unpaginate it.

I also hate pagination when browsing the web. Does anybody know of a Chrome or Firefox extension to automatically unpaginate and show as a single page?

markus_zhang• 5 years ago

O'Reilly animals give such touch to the books!

type02• 5 years ago

I almost wish they would publish a book about "Ugly hacks" so that there could be an Aye-aye on its' cover.

eu• 5 years ago

I wouldn't say aye-ayes are ugly..

type02• 5 years ago

They're kinda cute but their finger is "Natures ugly hack"

YeGoblynQueenne• 5 years ago

Fascinating animal:

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow[4] and a special thin middle finger.

Among the aye-aye's signature traits are its fingers.[24] The third finger, which is much thinner than the others, is used for tapping, while the fourth finger, the longest, is used for pulling grubs and insects out of trees, using the hooked nail.[15] The skinny middle finger is unique in the animal kingdom in that it possesses a ball-and-socket metacarpophalangeal joint.[29] The aye-aye has also evolved a sixth digit, a pseudothumb, to aid in gripping.[30]

Unfortunately endangered:

The aye-aye was thought to be extinct in 1933, but was rediscovered in 1957. Nine individuals were transported to Nosy Mangabe, an island near Maroantsetra off eastern Madagascar, in 1966.[38] Recent research shows the aye-aye is more widespread than was previously thought, but its conservation status was changed to endangered in 2014.[1][2] This is for three main reasons: the aye-aye is considered evil, the forests of Madagascar are being destroyed, and the farmers will kill aye-ayes to protect their crops and for poaching. However, there is no direct evidence to suggest aye-ayes pose any legitimate threat to crops and therefore are killed based on superstition.[39]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye

nullsense• 5 years ago

I'm now imagining a ship coming ashore as some spots one of these creatures and shouts "aye-aye captain!"

Zigurd• 5 years ago

The list is missing the book, and the quoll on the cover of Android Application Development.

tpkahlon• 5 years ago

In case someone wants to see oreilly animals: https://oreilly-animals.herokuapp.com/

The heroku deploy has limited free dyno capacity each day.

1MachineElf• 5 years ago

O'Reilly books were my first introduction to Perl, so the domain name certainly fits here.

Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals

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