Blog, Page 82

An interesting, well-researched, and somewhat plausible look at a future when humanity tries to settle Mars. Given that Elon Musk is trying to do just that, it’s ...

This book does a good job of walking you through the typical career path of a software engineer, from individual contributor all the way up to senior executive. I...

This is a fairly unusual sci-fi book. Right from the get-go, it manages to grab you, dropping you and the protagonist onto a research station on an alien world, f...

Here’s the TLDR for the book: create opt-in mailing lists, offer incentives to get people to join those lists, and then send promotional materials to those people...

This is another 1950’s-era sci-fi that does not resonate with me. Normally, I enjoy books in a post-apocalyptic setting, and while the premise for this one was gr...

I adored the Mistborn trilogy, but I was worried about this book, and avoided it for a while. I wasn’t confident that I’d enjoy a story set in the same universe, ...

A nice collection of blog posts and essays on software. Even though most of these are available online for free, there is so much crappy writing out there, that i...

The good

The idea of a ringworld is pretty cool… But the writing is boring, the characters are unrealistic (why is everyone so nonplussed by the insane events that take pl...

It’s a Dan Brown book. If you’ve read one, you’ve read them all. He’s good at creating suspense, fun action scenes, and touching on semi-controversial, world-endi...