Books
2020 - II. Just for Fun - Linus Torvalds
Feels most of the time as reading a the transcript of a banter between friends.
You’d drag me (with family) camping and (without family) skydiving. Things that I wouldn’t ever do otherwise, just because I think I’m too busy. Give me an excuse to do the things I haven’t done during the last three years even though all the opportunities are there…
2020 - I. The Pragmatic Programmer (Anniversary Edition)
The text is easily readable, well illustrated with parabola and everyday experiences. Some of the concise "lessons" resonated with me, giving me some big "aha moments". There were some suggestions which I already recognized in my everyday life and a load of ideas which I will try to put into practice.
"you can always fall back on the ultimate “easy to change” path: try to make what you write replaceable. That way, whatever happens in the future, this chunk of code won’t be a roadblock..."
"We routinely set compiler warning levels as high as possible. It doesn’t make sense to waste time trying to find a problem that the computer could find for you! We need to concentrate on the harder problems at hand."
I was already backing up some of my configuration files manually, but the book gave me a push to do this systematically. (And proven to be great during a migration from one Linux distribution to an other.)
fingers only
2019 - I. The Practice of Programming
First "programming" book after my electrical engineering curriculum which helped me transition from "university style" coding to "industrial style" coding.
TODO collect my analog notes/bookmarks from the book