Here's a big list of free programming/coding books. Amazing stuff.
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books?tab=readme-ov-file
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Left goodreads a while back, nice to get organized with my reading again, especially as part of the #fediverse. Links to my other accounts and sites at philipchu.com/
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technicat wants to read The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
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“Do not blame Caesar; blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security.” —Cicero
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An Overview of the Xia, Shang, & Zhou Chinese Dynasties
"The first three Chinese dynasties spanned almost 2,000 years, beginning with the enigmatic Xia and ending with the political turmoil of the Zhou Dynasty."
https://www.thecollector.com/xia-shang-zhou-chinese-dynasties/
technicat wants to read Dracula, Motherf**ker by Alex de Campi
Dracula, Motherf**ker by Alex de Campi, Erica Henderson
Vienna, 1889: Dracula's brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an ageing starlet decides to …
technicat started reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …
technicat started reading 1984: a novel by George Orwell (Signet Classics)
1984: a novel by George Orwell (Signet Classics)
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were …
technicat started reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, …
technicat started reading A Call to Action by Jimmy Carter
technicat wants to read Bleak House (Bantam Classics) by Charles Dickens
Bleak House (Bantam Classics) by Charles Dickens
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a …
technicat started reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Touchstone Books)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Touchstone Books)
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb …
technicat finished reading Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
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