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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, …
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when …
This is an incredibly well-researched and masterfully written book on the history of the Luddites and the first unscrupulous tech titans of the 19th century. Highly recommended read.
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …
Brian Kernighan provides an enjoyable read detailing the creation of Unix.
I really enjoyed the "behind the scenes" stories that describe the whys & hows that led to the development of some of the programs and tools we use to this day, such as: pipes, grep/egrep, the C language itself, the Bourne shell, Make, Sed & Awk, and on and on!
The mini biographies of the many talented folks (e.g., Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy) who were instrumental in creating Unix was a fund read as well.
A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and …
A book that could have been a small blog post.
As the author is a general partner at a16z, who invests in all manner of crypto companies, I expected a hell of a lot more from the author in making a case for blockchain. But sadly it was a very weak and limp book that didn’t really have much to say. Other than the author’s insane hatred for RSS — why all the anger for a web feed? 🤷♂️
Here’s one of my gripes with this book (out of many): Chris states that the “unique properties of blockchains unlock a range of applications that simply can't be created on traditional computers.” But never provides a single solid example of what blockchains can do that we can’t already do with current “traditional” tech.
Another gripe: I found it disingenuous that Chris doesn’t plainly disclose his affiliation upfront with the crypto companies …
A book that could have been a small blog post.
As the author is a general partner at a16z, who invests in all manner of crypto companies, I expected a hell of a lot more from the author in making a case for blockchain. But sadly it was a very weak and limp book that didn’t really have much to say. Other than the author’s insane hatred for RSS — why all the anger for a web feed? 🤷♂️
Here’s one of my gripes with this book (out of many): Chris states that the “unique properties of blockchains unlock a range of applications that simply can't be created on traditional computers.” But never provides a single solid example of what blockchains can do that we can’t already do with current “traditional” tech.
Another gripe: I found it disingenuous that Chris doesn’t plainly disclose his affiliation upfront with the crypto companies he mentions throughout the book (such as Helium, Compound, Dapper Labs, and Maker — all of them a16z backed)…unless you go alll the way to the second-last page of the book to read that note.
The one positive: Chris does a good job of highlighting the dreadful consolidation of power and control of the Internet juggernauts (Meta, Google, Amazon, etc.).
A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from …
Murder on the Sysadmin Express
After accidentally solving two murders, Dale Whitehead hungers to stay …
This novel was just as enjoyable as reading MWL’s “git commit murder.”
And I loved the fine geekdom tongue-in-cheek details like solving a murder open-source style “with enough eyes, all murders are shallow” (nicely channeling Linus’s law - given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow).
Murder on the Sysadmin Express
After accidentally solving two murders, Dale Whitehead hungers to stay in his apartment, hack virtual …
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up …
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing is an entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to …
Classic text on the human side of software engineering, containing essays on the management of software teams, projections about how …
