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Below is a list of books I have read recently. This section also contains a list of recently liked Instapaper articles.
Most of my reading revolves around technology or business. I also have a bad habit of reading technical writing from decades past for its historical value.
Books I Like
- Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation
- Ruby Under a Microscope
- Language Implementation Patterns
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- Stack Computers: The New Wave
- Programming Forth
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
- Spatial Computing
- 10% Happier (Meditation)
- Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
- Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything
- Operating System Concepts ('The Dinosaur Book')
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems
Recent Favorites on Instapaper
- Why being a developer is frustrating — and why we do it anyway | articles about programming on mkdev (mkdev.me)
- ‘This Must Be Your First’ (theatlantic.com)
- The Complete Guide to Effective Reading - Maarten van Doorn (maartenvandoorn.nl)
- The future of 32-bit Linux [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
- Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (returntonow.net)
- The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand (onezero.medium.com)
- Lying down and vomiting between courses: This is how Ancient Romans would feast (cnn.com)
- How I Spend My Attention (mythirdbrain.substack.com)
- So you want to build an embedded Linux system? - Jay Carlson (jaycarlson.net)
- Mutant Corn Could Be The Future Of Agriculture (hackaday.com)
- Your Own Private LoRa Pager Network (hackster.io)
- PERSEUS-3 is a modern MC6802 computer with a goregous vintage look and feel (hackster.io)
- What do I care the open web is dying? (insightbrowser.com)
- Booting from a vinyl record – BOGIN, JR. (boginjr.com)
- Reading Too Much Political News Is Bad for Your Well-Being (theatlantic.com)
- The Dialects of Tiny BASIC (troypress.com)
- Why I’m Switching from Figma to Microsoft Paint (uxplanet.org)
- What is the Value of Browser Diversity? (daverupert.com)
- How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally (righto.com)
- "I'm a coffin confessor. I tell people's secrets from beyond the grave" (newsweek.com)
- Programming is a losers game | Tom Gamon (tomgamon.com)
- Diggers Directory: Automaticamore - (stampthewax.com)
- A robot wrote this entire article. Does that scare you, human? | GPT-3 (theguardian.com)
- When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery | The Obscuritory (obscuritory.com)
- A floppy-disk Walkman – using a Raspberry Pi (shkspr.mobi)
- Attention is your scarcest resource (benkuhn.net)
- The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers | U.S. PIRG (uspirg.org)
- To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’ | Psyche Ideas (psyche.co)
- The first battery-free Game Boy wants to power a gaming revolution (cnet.com)
- Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick (theconversation.com)
- Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later? (hackaday.com)
- Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? (nature.com)
- A clean start for the web - macwright.com (macwright.com)
- Why FTP Could Soon Disappear from the Internet (tedium.co)
- The mysterious cause of stuttering in the brain (bbc.com)
- Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space? (arstechnica.com)
- When we lose weight, where does it go? (theconversation.com)
- How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again (lowtechmagazine.com)
- Built to Last (logicmag.io)
- » X-COM The Digital Antiquarian (filfre.net)