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Brian Watroba
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What's your fave non-fiction/biographies/etc. about programming and software? Personalities, stories, history.
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Brian Watroba
@brianwatroba
Masters of Doom is great!
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More re: precursors to early programming but currently reading The Idea Factory (Gertner) about history of Bell Labs. Incredible perspective on how important the *colliding* of right person/insight/timing/dependencies/etc…all are in new innovations actually 🌱 Rather than any one of those. Crazy cast of characters
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Permanent Record (snowden) was a fun read + interesting take
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Chip War by Chris Miller is a great and recent one. https://i.imgur.com/ZG2FjKW.jpg
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Charlie Harrington
@whatrocks
- The Soul of a New Machine - The Friendly Orange Glow - Turing's Cathedral - Broad Band - Where Wizards Stay Up Late
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@bissell
Reading Crypto by Steven Levy rn and it’s great
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I like Creativity Inc, Softwar (Ellison), Issacson’s Jobs, masters of doom If/then (lapore) is also good
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Kevin
@typedarray.eth
the dream machine
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Adam
@adamaziz
@perl
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An oldie but goodie. https://www.amazon.com.au/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977/
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Vignesh
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I re-read Hackers by Steven Levy (or parts of it) every so often. It gives me a rush/motivation like no other text.
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Zach
@zachwill
Tangentially related… Shortcut by John Pollack has a super interesting section on Bill Klann: he recognized how slaughterhouse lines could be applied to automobiles (his bosses at Ford weren’t so keen on the idea). Not a full biography, but a really interesting section of a non-fiction book.
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Steph
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Working In Public 🫶
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linus torvalds great achievements somewhat questionable persona though
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