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I mostly read Science Fiction books and books about Programming. My main fediverse account is @ryuslash@fosstodon.org

If I write a review about something, don't take it too seriously. I don't know what the heck I'm talking about anyway, it's all just opinions.

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Tom Limoncelli, Thomas Limoncelli: Time management for system administrators (2006, O'Reilly)

A friend of mine recommended this to me for the Cycle system that's described in here because it helped them a lot. They deny recommending it to me (although actually might not deny this, they denied recommending the Cycle system to me, but once I started looking into that they did recommend I read this book), but of course now I have to judge their worth to me by seeing how applicable and good this book is.

stopped reading The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain, #1)

Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three (2006, Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks)

The Book of Three (1964) is a high fantasy novel by American writer Lloyd Alexander, …

I haven't actually been reading this at all. My wife told me to read it when she was pregnant, but never actually had much time for it. I'll get back to it some other time, though, they all go in the queue.

Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman: Software Design for Flexibility (2021, MIT Press)

Interesting ideas, less interesting examples

This book was a really great read. It was hard for me to get through, but I'm really glad that I did in the end. I didn't do any of the exercises, because that would've meant I'd be reading it for the next 5 years most likely.

This book starts off with some very nice, but not uncommon ideas about writing flexible code. The initial example of writing a DSL in Scheme for regular expressions was really nice and engaging for me, but then after that it goes into combining arithmetics together. That is where I had some trouble, probably because I never actually got a Computer Science degree. It does have a few other nice examples that really struck home. And of course it is quite fun to see how a generic dispatch system is set up from scratch in Scheme, for example.

This book was a little bit …

Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman: Software Design for Flexibility (2021, MIT Press)

Really interesting read in the end. Though quite difficult to get through for me. I kept falling asleep as I was reading it.

After finishing the chapter about propagators I still feel like I understand what's going on somewhat conceptually, but I have no clue what's going on in the code. I'm interested in reading more practical examples of uses of propagators and keeping them in my head.

commented on Software Design for Flexibility by Chris Hanson

Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman: Software Design for Flexibility (2021, MIT Press)

Content warning Structure of one of the later chapters

commented on Software Design for Flexibility by Chris Hanson

Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman: Software Design for Flexibility (2021, MIT Press)

I'm nearing the end. I've been trying really hard to get through it consistently by reading 10 pages every day, and it's been going very well.

Somehow the book is very interesting to me, but also every time I read it I have to really concentrate to stay awake... Although I've had that with all dead-tree books for quite a while now, but extra with this one.

Still, the subject matter is really interesting to me, I definitely like a lot of the ideas in it. But I would just really like it if it stopped with the combining arithmetics examples.

Joanna Faber, Julie King: How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen (2017, Scribner)

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction …

Very interesting, lots of fun anecdotes, many things for me to think about. I don't know how effective it'll actually be, or how well I'll be able to actually able to use these tools, but a lot of it resonates quite strongly with me. Very much enjoyed reading this book.