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This summer, my girlfriend and I are moving to Florence, Italy. It’s exciting. It’s scary. It’s insane. And it’s going to take a lot of work.

In this post, I'm going to explain why the way most programmers install, configure, and manage software in development, testing, and production environments i...

I listened to the audiobook version of this book and found it very entertaining. The writing is good–clear, sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious–and Poehler’s re...

On April 30, 2015, I gave a talk called "A Guide to Hiring for your Startup", where I discussed what to look for in a candidates, where to find them, ho...

I found this to be an eye-opening book. I think just about anyone, man or woman, would too. It’s well researched, well written, succinct, and discusses many impor...

A quick, pleasant read, wonderfully illustrated with large, lovely photos. Actually, the writing is largely secondary to the photos, but it does provide some cont...

As someone who is moving to Tuscany soon, and as a fan of A Year in Provence, I thought I’d enjoy this book. The truth is that it’s OK, but nothing special. There...

A fun, fast-paced, hard-to-put-down read that does a great job of telling the story of John Carmack, John Romero, and the groundbreaking games they created (Wolfe...

This isn’t a book about “computer programming”, but about computer programmers. It holds up remarkably well more than 40 years after its publication date because ...

Around 2007, I created my home page on a free PHP host and a blog on Blogger. The two websites have served me well for nearly 8 years, but they were long past du...