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Florian

florianec@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

My mind races with all my longings.

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2024 Reading Goal

55% complete! Florian has read 29 of 52 books.

Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con (Hardcover, 2023, Verso) 4 stars

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …

Great overview

5 stars

Cory Doctorow provides a great overview of the problems with Big Tech and some possible solutions for going forward. The book is not exhaustive but provides gets you started and encourages you to dive deeper in the areas you’re interested in.

Robert Cecil Martin: Clean Architecture (2017, Prentice Hall) 5 stars

I've bought this a while ago from my companies professional development budget and it was rather disappointing, there are some useful architecture concepts in this book, but I don't think they are very well explained and instead the book is filled with anecdotes about computer systems that were obsolete before I was even born.

Zed Shaw: Learn Python 3 the Hard Way (2017, Pearson Education, Limited) 5 stars

The old ways

5 stars

This book reminded me of how I started to learn programming when I was a teenager. Get a book, type every piece of code into a text editor, check if it works, continue. I have messed around in existing Python code for years, but I have never actually tried to sit down and learn the language and these old ways still work surprisingly well, even if you are seasoned programmer.