Tom started reading False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg
I was given this on loan to read because I think someone got a little concerned when I was being cynical and scared about climate change a few too many times.
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83% complete! Tom has read 10 of 12 books.
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Tom commented on The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo
The Pomodoro Technique (2018)
"Available through bookstores for the first time, the internationally acclaimed time management system that has …
Now that I finally have an actual kitchen timer to keep track on I had to go back to the Objective I chapter and read how to actually get started with this again.
One of the things I like about this book is how it's divided into different objectives that you're supposed to get used to one at a time. None of the online tutorials I'd read mentioned this, they all go straight for their subset of recommendations on where you should end up. But starting simply with keeping track of how your pomodoros go, and then building on from there, feels like a very low-pressure way to ease in to the process.
Tom rated Forge Your Future with Open Source: 4 stars
Tom finished reading Forge Your Future with Open Source by VM (Vicky) Brasseur
A very nice read, I feel encouraged and I am reminded about a lot of the things I should do when I go into a community. Things seem much less scary now.
Content warning One of the facts in the book
Believe it or not, most business-focused people don't spend all of their time putting a pin in this so they can circle around to ideate about leveraging the synergistic potentials of this green field opportunity.
— Forge Your Future with Open Source by VM (Vicky) Brasseur (Page 174)
As if spoken by the 80s guy himself
Tom rated The Book of the Year 2019: 4 stars
The Book of the Year 2019 by No Such Thing as a Fish Staff
The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious and absolutely absurd …
Tom finished reading The Book of the Year 2019 by Andrew Hunter Murray
The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most …
So much fun! Like reading the podcast a little, but less chaotic.
Tom quoted The Book of the Year 2019 by Andrew Hunter Murray
The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most …
Content warning One of the facts in the book
A grocer discouraged plastic use by emblazoning his bags with incredibly embarrassing slogans; unfortunately, people started collecting them.
Among the slogans on bags dished out by Vancouver's East West Market were "Dr Toew's Wart Ointment", "Into the Weird Adult Video Emporium" and "The Colon Care Co-Op".
— The Book of the Year 2019 by No Such Thing as a Fish Staff (Page 321)
Of course this happened in Vancouver. It seems very apt somehow.
Sometimes these meetups take the for of a conference or event. ... The actual largest event of that kind is FOSDEM. Unlike other events, FOSDEM does not focus on a single community or technology. Instead it welcomes all people interested or participating in free and open source software.
— Forge Your Future with Open Source by VM (Vicky) Brasseur (Page 114)
I really miss going to FOSDEM. Even though I'm terrible at socializing with strangers and I end up just being alone among a huge group of people, I still really love it.
Tom quoted The Book of the Year 2019 by Andrew Hunter Murray
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Content warning One of the facts in the book, and what happened with it
Hotelier Robert Bigelow may be used to dealing with travellers on American road trips, but his next project will be offering accomidation 200 miles above the surface of the Earth, in the International Space Station. Bigelow's hotel is slated to launch in 2021, and for a bargain £27,500 rate, residents will get food, air, medical kits, exercise equipment and use of the station's life-support systems and toiled.
— The Book of the Year 2019 by No Such Thing as a Fish Staff (Page 250)
It's fun to read some of these facts when they're about plans that should have finished by now. I was curious, because this sounds cool, so I looked it up, but as far as I can tell this didn't actually happen, and according to Wikipedia he's now suing NASA. Guess I won't go on vacation in space.
Also I wonder just how much of that price is for the air and life-support system use.
Tom started reading Forge Your Future with Open Source by VM (Vicky) Brasseur
Tom rated Crafting Interpreters: 5 stars
Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom
Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn both high-level concepts around parsing …
Tom finished reading Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom
Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn …
That was a biggie!
Tom commented on Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom
Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn …
Phew! It's taken me a while, but I have just one chapter left to go!
Tom started reading The Book of the Year 2019 by Andrew Hunter Murray
The Book of the Year 2019 by No Such Thing as a Fish Staff
The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious and absolutely absurd …