Blog, Page 80

Here’s a summary of this book: build software in small increments, ship something that works every 1-2 weeks, and always prioritize the most important and valuabl...

This book is scathing critique of blogs, news, fake news, the media, and how easily they can be—and are—manipulated. This might sound like a niche topic better le...

This is one of those rare instances when the movie/TV adaptation is superior to the book. This book tells the remarkable tale of Easy Company during World War II,...

A hit-or-miss book that tries to teach improv. It contains some great insights about comedy, but the book itself is not at all funny; it has a few wonderful sugge...

O. Henry stories are the literary equivalent of the one-liner joke. Short, witty, memorable, and with a clever twist at the end. This collection of O. Henry stori...

This is one of those books where a 5-star rating cannot adequately capture my impressions. I would argue that this book is deeply flawed, but still well-worth rea...

I have not read other DDD books, so I grabbed this one as a quick intro to decide if I wanted to dive deeper. My conclusion: either DDD is a useless pile of nonse...

This isn’t a book, so much as it is a reference manual or an appendix. It’s nearly 800 pages of dense, low-level discussions of performance issues related to the ...

devRant is a place you can talk (or rant) about your life as a programmer with other programmers. The devRant folks are also putting together a series of podcast...

A quick, fun read on, arguably, the most successful and important entrepreneur of all time. The writing is good, but not great; the stories and insider look you g...