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ssweeny

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Joined 2 years, 5 months ago

Software engineer from #Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Opinions are my own, not those of my spouse, employer, child, or pets. In fact there are few areas in which we agree.

Interested in #FOSS and #Linux, as well as federated social nonsense like the #Fediverse and #XMPP and #Matrix

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2025 Reading Goal

Success! ssweeny has read 30 of 25 books.

James Clear: Atomic habits : an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones : tiny changes, remarkable results

Not a ton of new insights, but laid out in a way that's easy to digest

Yet another self-help-type book that's maybe padded a bit with anecdotes, but there's enough solid advice in here that's communicated well that I do recommend this book.

reviewed Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

Martha Wells: Artificial Condition (Hardcover, 2018, Tor)

Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New …

More Murderbot!

I read the first of these a long while ago. I was worried that losing the relationships with the characters from the first book would weaken the experience but here we see Murderbot develop new relationships fairly quickly. It feels like satisfying growth from the first book even if Murderbot would deny it.

Definitely recommend.