The ‘West’ is losing. How could it not?
I’m pretty sure that February 24th, 2022 is going to be written in the history books, if those books ever get written and we’re not all subsumed in an imminent nuclear winter. The predictability of a Europe, and later United States-dominated world, where the ‘West’ ruled and enjoyed unprecedented levels of comfort, material wealth and peace and the rest of the world either suffered or gradually developed, feeding from the leftovers of Western consumption, i … ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more

🌠 Boolean Task Queries & Improved Sidebar Controls
Plugin settings design tips & productivity book recommendations. ⌘ Read more

Is the Lunduke Journal a Tech Publication or nerdy book/video subscription service? Yes.
Definitely “all of the above”. ⌘ Read more

Linux for Hank - the video book
Watch now (4 min) | The Audio / Video version of the kids book about Linux. ⌘ Read more

Oh man, the evening light was sooooo bloody awesome and also the sky seemed off a picture-book. And I didn’t bring my camera. Came home about quarter an hour too late, sun was already set.

Book Release: Go For DevOps #go #golang #sre #devops #terraform href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23kubernetes”>#kubernetes**
In the book you will find:

\* The basics of Go (including the 1.18 generics addition)

\* Using Go with various encoding formats

\* Building basic REST and gRPC services

\* Applying Go to automate local system tasks

\* Utilizing Go to automate those same tasks on thousands of machines

\* Building a … ⌘ Read more

Good book, bad language ⌘ Read more

Spent the afternoon updating my tilde and now it is time to unwind with some meditation and a book!

Hong Kong Book Fair to begin on July 20 but some publishers banned with ‘no reason’
This year’s event is themed ‘Reading the World: Stories of Hong Kong’. ⌘ Read more

“2299: Act 1” – Comedy Sci-Fi with spaceships and stuff
Book released as a PDF for all Lunduke Journal subscribers ⌘ Read more

Airlines restoring flights faster than planned to meet demand
Seats on international flights are about 90 per cent full, and daily services between Sydney and London via Singapore on the Airbus superjumbo are fully booked for weeks. ‘There’s massive demand’, Qantas CEO said. ⌘ Read more

‘I need a room’: overseas Hong Kong students struggling to book quarantine hotels for summer return to city
Bulk of 66 quarantine hotels fully booked until end of July, while some hotels on new list of designated facilities only have availability from middle of August. ⌘ Read more

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp

Coronavirus: Hong Kong bar and club patrons cancel bookings over rapid-test proof rule, as industry leader slams ‘unclear guidelines’
‘What did our industry do wrong?’ sector representative Ben Leung says on radio show. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: This book can be your next (perfect?) TBR: The Story of Classic Crime in 100 (102?) Books by Martin Edwards ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @medwardsbooks @poisonedpen @BL_Publishing #BookReview #Booktwt https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/this-book-can-be-your-next-perfect-tbr-the-story-of-classic-crime-in-100-102-books-by-martin-edwards-%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90-medwardsbooks-poisonedpen-bl_publishing-bo/
This book can be your next (perfect?) TBR: The Story of Classic Crime in 1 … ⌘ Read more

I’m reminded today that books are still a great form of entertainment. Secondhand books in particular are always plentiful and cheap–a big plus in times of supply chain squeezes and rampant inflation.

I started adding a list of books that changed my life to my tilde at http://tilde.club/~melyanna/library/

📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur

Atari ST Book - The 1991 laptop with 10 hour battery life
68000 CPU (like the Mac and Amiga) and 4 MB of RAM. All powered by AA batteries. (Seriously.) ⌘ Read more

https://goalkicker.com/ Programming notes for professionnals books

📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur

I read 100 self-help books. Here’s what I learned… ⌘ Read more

Don Knuth really really wants to write a long site and not books. I mean…just take a look at them!

“Linux Sucks: The Book” publishing has resumed with a new, in-progress PDF
“The rise, and inevitable fall, of the world’s greatest Operating System” ⌘ Read more

i don’t know of any Gentle Introduction to Why Prediction Markets are Awesome, à la Wait But Why, with stick figures and just going slow in on the topic, answering objections along the way. i consider it a collective action failure that no such text exists, and also that i don’t know of any book that does this (other than superforecasting)

new version of our introduction to uxn e-book with the screen auto byte and other updates in varvara devices | gemini://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.gmi

New Book: “Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 1”
Esoteric, and often forgotten, stories of computer history… in a 200 page volume. ⌘ Read more

New Book of Nerdy Satire: “The Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 2”
Because you can never have too many jokes about Linux. ⌘ Read more

“Linux for Hank” - the children’s book about Linux
One of many perks for subscribers to The Lunduke Journal ⌘ Read more

1970’s BASIC Computer Games compiled for Linux
Remember typing in code from magazines and books? Let’s compile a bunch of those old games for modern Linux. ⌘ Read more

I didn’t get around to blogging about the fact that Miniflux recently got a new version. With it, if an entry doesn’t have a title, it finally shows a snippet of the content instead of just the URL as the title. A great new feature if you follow a lot of micro blogs. Regarding micro-blogs, I’m also in the process of reading Manton Reece’s book draft. ⌘ Read more

https://book.keybase.io/docs/chat/crypto

I would HIGHLY recommend reading up on the keybase architecture. They designed device key system for real time chat that is e2e secure. https://book.keybase.io/security

A property of ec keys is deriving new keys that can be determined to be “on curve.” bitcoin has some BIPs that derive single use keys for every transaction connected to a wallet. And be derived as either public or private chains. https://qvault.io/security/bip-32-watch-only-wallets/

What I learned from every book I read last year. ⌘ Read more

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… the Coleco Bowlatronic
The 1981 hand-held bowling game traveled to the Star Wars universe in The Book of Boba Fett. ⌘ Read more

updated our introduction to uxn e-books with a new table formatting and some minor corrections | gemini://compudanzas.net/publications.gmi

Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life
In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: “For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur … ⌘ Read more

Whoever named “NFTs” really missed a great opportunity…
Can we all just agree to call them this from now on? The Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusives as of this moment: 7 books, 2 games, LundukeFest pass, + articles and podcast episodes. You can subscribe here on Substack or join The Lunduke Journal Community at ⌘ Read more

Real men don’t comment their code…
Insert manly grunting. The Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusives as of this second: 7 books, 2 games, LundukeFest pass, + articles and podcast episodes. ⌘ Read more

published our ebook: introduction to uxn programming! | gemini://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.gmi

** Star Wars, and a year in review **
I tried to write a“ year in review” kinda post, but it got wicked melodramatic pretty fast. This year has been a slog…it really fucking sucked.

Rather than reflect on it further, I thought I’d write about something vapid that I’ve been thinking a bit about lately instead: Star Wars.

Despite my best efforts, I’ve always loved Star Wars. As a child I spent hundreds of hours pouring over novels, and comics, and books of sch … ⌘ Read more

2021 is over! Huzzah! Get Lunduke Journal yearly subscription for $15.
7 free eBooks: including a Choose Your Own Adventure, Nerdy Dad Jokes, & a Kids Book ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: 2021 Readings
As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I’ve provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain…. ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #9: Musical Monadology
In meditation #7 of this series, I took note of some similarities between the aesthetics of Aristotle and the music of Bach. Another intriguing influence might be the monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who directly influenced philosophers and musical theorists in the Bach’s orbit: for instance, Bach’s student Lorenz Mizler (1711-1778) was a follower of the Leibniz scholar Christian Wolff (1679-1754). In chapter 5 of his book Music in the Culture of th … ⌘ Read more

“Road-Sign Hank & The Aliens” available for free to all Lunduke Journal subscribers
Family friendly, Sci-Fi adventure comic book series… with some nerdy jokes mixed in. ⌘ Read more

Ask HN: most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651]] #links

How to support The Lunduke Journal (& where to buy Lunduke’s books)
Multiple ways to support this nerdy publication and become part of the community. ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/12/04/else4.html #freeculture #bookclub

Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin
Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle’s views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato’s dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I’ve read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office…. ⌘ Read more