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/
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
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
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
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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
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/27/else3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/20/else2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/13/else.html #freeculture #bookclub
Linux Sucks - Audio Book - Chapter 1
Listen now (5 min) | After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are finally fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! Huzzah! For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sita Sings the Blues https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/06/sita.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/30/occupy2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/23/occupy1.html #freeculture #bookclub
🙌 Liked: Famicom Party ⌘ Read more
As a side effect of my post on boats I’ve now reserved a book about Vasa at the library, in order to clarify and correct the wikipedia article on it 😂
I realized this morning why I’m put off by super hero movies. They are fun, and I’ve always loved comic books, but the super hero movies of the last decade specifically, (I mean, beside being military propaganda) totally omit the potential future of any sort of utopia. They cannot envision their own undoing.
The stories are predicated on the super heros always needing something to be super against, despite having fantastical abilities to help usher in some sort of uto … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/16/lightbringer2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/09/lightbringer.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/02/affair4.html #freeculture #bookclub
“Linux Sucks: The Book” - Chapter 2
GNU, Minix, and the before times ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/25/affair3.html #freeculture #bookclub