Place a string in the middle of the screen - in bash

For ages my shell is greeting me with "Let's boogie, Mr Swine". I had it printed in fixed offset but following a discussion in comp.lang.python I decided to get the screen size and calculate the exact location.

I'm using tput to get the size and the fact that printf can get the width of the string as a parameter if you specify a * there (BTW - Python supports that as well)

Here's the code.

353Solutions - 2018 in Review

Happy new year! Here’s a summary of 353solution’s 2018.

Numbers

• Total of 242 calendar days where worked for a customer (including partial days)
  • Down 11 days from 2017
  • Out of 261 work days in 2018
• Median consulting work day is 3:36h
  • Workshops are usually a full day
• Normalized work days (total divided by 8) is 203.3
  • Up from 171.6 normalized days in 2017
• Of these 53.5 days were in workshops and the rest in consulting
  • Up from 30 in 2017
• 13 workshops
  • Up from 10 last year
  • 4 more video courses on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda (over 300K viewers already)
  • Teaching in Israel, UK and the US and Germany
• Several new client including MGT, Gett, Actiview and others
• Revenue up by 20%
  • 40% from workshops

Insights

• Personal social network keep bringing all the work
• Go is exploding
  • GopherCon Israel brought many connections
  • Much more Go in consulting
• Python & Data Science in demand for workshops
  • As well as Go
• We need to get better on marketing open classes
  • Might have an alliance for that

Last Year’s Goals

• Work less while increasing revenue
  • Mixed results here. Worked more but revenue is up ☺
• Publish my book
  • Done: https://forging-python.com
• More workshops and less consulting
  • Done
• Two open enrollment workshops
  • Nope ☹
• Two free 1/2 day workshops
  • Nope ☹
• Keep working from home
  • Done
• Attend at least 3 conferences
  • Only PyCon Israel
• Give at least 4 talks in meetups or conferences
  • Done (2 PyWeb IL, 1 Go Israel, 1 PyCon Israel, 1 Big Data)
• Get better at marketing
  • Decided marketing is the open source work I’m doing.

Goals for 2019

• GopherCon Israel (February 11, 2019)
• Work less while increasing revenue
• Attend at least 3 conferences
• Give at least 4 talks in meetups or conferences
• Two free 1/2 day workshops
• Start another book