#techbooks — Public Fediverse posts
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Ah yes, Ted Nyman's epic tome on #Git, where he takes the perfectly simple version-control tool and transforms it into a convoluted soup of jargon, 🚀 complete with unnecessary deep dives into filesystem and graph theory 📚. Git isn't just for version control, it's your next overachieving career path! 🌟
https://gitperf.com/ #Nyman #TechBooks #VersionControl #CareerGrowth #HackerNews #ngated -
AI-Generated Books, Forth & Pharo, and Why I'm Back with Common Lisp
A notebook-style essay about stumbling upon AI-generated tech books (HiTeX Press, "Robert Johnson"), the realization that beautiful design doesn't equal working code, and the journey through Smalltalk chaos to the quiet stability of Common Lisp.
Includes thoughts on:
- The "end of the internet age"
- Why I avoid publicly traded companies
- AI in music, photography, and content moderation
- Why a REPL beats bouncing windowsFake books → real lessons → building my own tools with CLOS and CLOG.
Read here in German:
https://mahamind7.blogspot.com/2026/03/angriff-der-ai-text-2.html#CommonLisp #Smalltalk #AI #TechBooks #Programming #Forth #Pharo
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New blog post:
30,656 Pages of Books About the .NET Ecosystem: C#, Blazor, ASP.NET, & T-SQL
When I learned lean software development, I abandoned year-long planning at work and at home. This year, I broke my rule...
Continue reading: https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/thirty-thousand-pages-of-books-about-the-dotnet-ecosystem/
#Books #Reading #NewYearsResolution #DotNET #CSharp #Blazor #ASPNET #TSQL #FullStack #SoftwareDevelopment #ProgrammingBooks #LearningToCode #WebDevelopment #EnterpriseSoftware #TechBooks #CodeNewbie #CodingJourney #DeveloperLife
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I can always tell I've entered a new phase of my life when the answer to, "What would you do if you could retire today?" changes.
The answer is now, "I'd write updated editions of important programming books."
#Books #Writing #WebDev #Programming #HTML #Ruby #Rails #LifePhases #RetirementDreams #TechBooks #Writing #CareerEvolution #KnowledgeSharing #LifelongLearning #TechIndustry #BookUpdates #FuturePlans
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Technical Book Review - ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook – 2nd Edition
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https://www.facebook.com/EarthStuff/posts/pfbid02tqP1CSZGexGUSwqCR458tD336DzdStXN1yiZS4t5nLHDtRbCDRHsnzTxgWCC82Yel <-- link to full review
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[disclaimers – (i) a publisher’s representative solicited a review of & provided a copy of this book for review, but no recompense, (ii) this is my impartial, personal review - and hence is not an endorsement by my employer, implicit or otherwise.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #ArcGIS #ArcGISPro #ESRI #bookreview #review #books #amreading #currentlyreading #nowreading #nonfictionbooks #continuingeducation #alldataisspatial #selflearning #mapmonday #gischat #techbook #techbooks #technology #h #reading #programming #bookshop #techwriting #desktopgis #selflearning #education #learning #selfimprovement #selfdevelopment #onlinelearning #selfeducation #student #motivation #careergrowth #technicalbook #continuouslearning #learningjourney #education #technicalskills #PacktPublishing