Posts tagged "books":
10 Oct 2024
Links #65
- Astral Codex Tex — Book Review Contest 2024 Winners
mentioned in the article: What if Marvel was real (I don't listen to podcasts, but this one seems original and fun)
“What would it be like to live through the original Marvel Universe as it was happening”. The hosts speak in modern vernacular, but otherwise live in the world of the early Silver Age of Marvel Comics. The first episode takes place in November 1961. The Thing and the Human Torch have just been spotted in the city, but no one knows who or what they are.
- Strava Segment Tutorial: Removing Suckage and Promoting Quality possibly outdated, but I love the level of detail
- Berlin to Copenhagen for Beginners: My First Bikepacking Adventure in 2024 great pictures, among the other things
- Multiplying matrices using functional programming I already knew
that (I think) rather famous expression of
transpose, but I've never seen the rest
09 Oct 2020
Links #30
- Project Cambria - Translate your data with lenses
- We have met the Excelnemy and he is us
- Test-driven Web application development with Common Lisp
- Jo Walton reads Monthly reading list by author Jo Walton. I like she writes succinct yet enough-to-decide reviews, and the fact she uses the notion of "bath book" (although I'm not sure she and I mean the same thing with it)
25 Jun 2020
Links #24
- The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
- Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once (the title is a bit over the top and I don't like it, but I appreciate the practical techniques illustrated in the article: like, deriving a sense of the structure and content of a non-fiction book using the index, then comparing it with the TOC)
16 Jan 2020
Links #14
14 Sep 2019
Links #12
04 Feb 2019
Links #6
- Data Visualization - A practical introduction, via bactra.org: "This book is the best guide I've seen to (1) learning the widely-used, and generally handsome, ggplot library in R, (2) learning the "grammar of graphics" principles on which it is based, and (3) learning the underlying psychological principles which make some graphics better or worse visualizations than others"
- You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
- OOP Before OOP with Simula
- Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month