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Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel

by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies · published 1994 · read 2021-08-01
★★★★★
Officially my new favourite history book: I'm in love with Frances and Joseph Gies showing off the technology and technological development of the Middle Ages. The book is dense and doesn't coddle the reader, and, as many of their works, is
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The Victorian Internet

by Tom Standage · published 1998 · read 2019-05-24
★★★★☆
My first non-fiction book in quite some time, The Victorian Internet is a nice introduction into the rise and fall of the electrical telegraph, and all its implications. Tom Standage shows us in an easy, meandering style how the world
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Talking about Machines

by Julian E. Orr · published 1996 · read 2022-02-17
★★★★☆
This is technical anthropology, and it is thorough and much better than you'd expect from a potentially dry dissertation from 1990, described as an “underground classic among ethnographers of work”. The central thesis of the book is that
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM (Vicky) Brasseur · published 2018 · read 2019-09-20
★★★★☆
Forge Your Future with Open Source by VM Brasseur was a book I started with incorrect expectations: I thought I was the target group, and it would explain different things from its actual content. Bummer.
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SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys

by Michael W. Lucas · published 2012 · read 2020-02-05
★★★★☆
Well-written as usual. Teaches both implicit cultural knowledge and exciting obscure details in a structured, concise, and comprehensive way.
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HTTP/3 explained

by Daniel Stenberg · published 2018 · read 2020-01-12
★★★★☆
HTTP/3 Explained is a little free booklet by curl developer Daniel Stenberg explaining the principles and history behind HTTP/3. I liked the inclusion of recent history and explanation of discussions in the working groups. There is also som
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

by Gretchen McCulloch · published 2019 · read 2020-04-18
★★★★☆
Excellent book on internet linguistics! Touches all the important points and then some. I learnt about Third Places and where thankful!Tobias notation originates, and felt myself and my internet habits covered quite comprehensively.
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

by George Pólya · published 1944 · read 2020-03-31
★★★☆☆
How to Solve It is decent, but overrated – the first 10% are pretty good, and then there are a few nuggets of really good advice interspersed with the neverending examples of the principles introduced in the first part.
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The Checklist Manifesto

by Atul Gawande · published 2009 · read 2021-10-30
★★★☆☆
Checklists good – this message has been spread through all tech conferences for the last several years, so I didn't expect much from this book. It's the slightly more fleshed-out (but also just inflated) version of the original essay. If I
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Stuff Matters

by Mark Miodownik · published 2013 · read 2022-03-12
★★★☆☆
All my notes are lost to a hardware disaster, so the tl;dr is just: material pop-science, fun read, drags on in places. Nice without being great. The chapters on steel and chocolate were great, the one on concrete could have been great but
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim · published 2013 · read 2013-09-01
★★☆☆☆
The Phoenix Project is a very nice management introduction for IT projects, talking about ITIL, about processes and about Agile Methods.
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

by Linus Torvalds · published 2001 · read 2008-12-01
★★☆☆☆
Torvalds tells his (and his project's) life story up to 2000. Nothing special.