Amy Hudspith

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 • Updated on Mar 2, 2022

Book recommendations?

Looking for book recommendations of any kind! Leave your faves below 📚

I'll go big

in literal size
in florid, poetic verbosity of prose
in intricate backstory
in incredible, "larger than life" characters
in emotions it evokes (ever had a book make you cry and smile at the same time?)
in declaring it the greatest novel ever written:

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Thinking fast and slow - a true masterpiece every developer can learn from. It help you to think critically.

You can check out my Dev.to article on the book:
dev.to/kethmars/how-i-learned-to-t...

99 Bottles of OOP. It teachs a lot of design techniques with cool examples.

My absolute favorite:

Robert's Grave The white goddess from which I learn about Taliesin which in turn made me name my programming language Gwion.

I'd also advice reading Mircea Eliade Aspects du mythe (sorry I can't find it's name in english).

Anything by Selma Lagerlof.

Also look at the eerie similarities beetwen Eliade's Thirteen roses and Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

I just reread The Glass Castle, which is a unique & inspiring memoir. Next on my list is Pachinko which has been recommended a few times.

I've just collected all my book reviews at DevReads, you might find there something interesting.

Right now, I'm reading Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday.

Regarding IT, I've read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software that is an excellent overview of our profession's history.

There's a book that made me cry: Java Algorithms and Data Structures :D

why is that?

Well that was a joke but you can learn about data structures on a more appropriate or efficient way 😂

'The Phoenix Project' is awesome!

I hear The House At Pooh Corner is awfully nice.

The Pragmatic Programmer. It is so good, you may want to read it several times

I'm reading Defying Reality by David M Ewalt and loving it! I keep hearing myself saying "that's so cool!!" Ahen I learned about all the advances 🤣

Trust Me I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday was a really interesting read. It's crazy to get an inside look at how easy it is to manipulate the media.

Gut: Giulia Enders
Algorithms to Live By The Computer Science of Human Decisions: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Psycho-Cybernetics Updated and Expanded: Maxwell Maltz