#books (79 links)
For the sugggested re-reading order:
* Thousand Autumns * Cloud Atlas * Utopia Avenue * Black Swan Green * Ghostwritten * Number9Dream * The Bone Clocks * Slade House
- Open Library openlibrary.org
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess howtomakesenseofanymess.com
- Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down theguardian.com
- Edgar Schein: Humble Inquiry (2013) | by Philippe Vandenbroeck | Medium philippevandenbroeck.medium.com
I am getting more and more convinced that big, systemic change takes root in conscious but modest shifts in behaviour and thought. The argument developed in this short book confirms this: asking the right questions, from an authentic attitude of respect and curiosity, is the basis for building trusting relationships; trust facilitates better task-related communication and, thereby, ensures collaboration to get the job done.
- Stripe Press — Ideas for Progress press.stripe.com
- My sci-fi novel recommendations - Noahpinion noahpinion.substack.com
- archives.design archives.design
An organized collection of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives compiled by Valery Marier
- Library Extension - See book availability from your local library's catalogs libraryextension.com
- DesignOps Handbook - DesignBetter.Co designbetter.co
- Exploring ES6: Upgrade to the next version of JavaScript exploringjs.com
- What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon' opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
<blockquote>I basically now have both the simplest and most sophisticated multi-language ebook production and distribution setup on the planet.</blockquote>
Beautiful, if you like this sort of thing.
- Lostmy.name lostmy.name
<blockquote>Beautifully illustrated, wonderfully written and created especially for every child, this is bespoke storytelling like never before</blockquote>
- The Docker Book dockerbook.com
<blockquote>A new book designed for SysAdmins, Operations staff, Developers and DevOps who are interested in deploying the open source LXC-based container service Docker.</blockquote>
- Lacuna Books lacunabooks.com
Lacuna Books is an application designed specially for writing books, research papers, and technical writings. It helps you manage content more effectively and produces beautiful digital books.
<blockquote>What is required, therefore (and what is difficult to effect), is the translation of these impulses of wonder and joy at nature, into ecologically valuable patterns of behaviour. Into changed patterns of purchase, consumption, disposal, and travel. Into a shifted sense of the universal. We need, for instance, to retire our medieval vision of the skies, seas, rivers and soil as sinks of infinite capacity; free in what they give, and limitless in their capacity to absorb what we discard into them.</blockquote>
- Convert text and ebooks to the MOBI format ebook.online-convert.com
Convert from URL is handy.
- JavaScript Enlightenment | by Cody Lindley | 1st Edition | ECMA-262, Edition 3 javascriptenlightenment.com
- Hacker News | JavaScript Web Apps by O'Reilly news.ycombinator.com
- Open Bookmarks II | booktwo.org booktwo.org
Open Bookmarks is intended to educate readers as well as developers about what social reading is and why it should be open, in order to create a demand for better services.
- CMAP #9: Ebooks - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
"There is no topic in the publishing industry this decade that is the source of as many misconceptions, superstitions, lies, plausible untruths, and idiocies as ebooks". Worthwhile reading for anyone working in the ebook arena.
- getting-better-at-javascript blog.rebeccamurphey.com
rmurphey: Getting Better at JavaScript http://post.ly/24M1b
- Scout Books » The Original "Make Your Own" Pocket Notebook scoutbooks.com
Design and print custom pocket notebooks.
- Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.
- jQuery Fundamentals jqfundamentals.com
- Okay, kids, play on my lawn - Roger Ebert's Journal blogs.suntimes.com
My error in the first place was to think I could make a convincing argument on purely theoretical grounds. What I was saying is that video games could not in principle be Art. That was a foolish position to take, particularly as it seemed to apply to the entire unseen future of games. This was pointed out to me maybe hundreds of times. How could I disagree? It is quite possible a game could someday be great Art.
- russell davies: cognitive surplus - blog all dog-eared pages russelldavies.typepad.com
This helps me understand what happened to blogging when the prospects of financial reward crept in. It changed everything. And, presumably, unless people read and understand this, it's going to happen again when new creative tools are invented.
- William Gibson - BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK blog.williamgibsonbooks.com
If Pattern Recognition was about the immediate psychic aftermath of 9-11, and Spook Country about the deep end of the Bush administration and the invasion of Iraq, I could say that Zero History is about the global financial crisis as some sort of nodal event, but that must be true of any 2010 novel with ambitions on the 2010 zeitgeist. But all three of these novels are also about that dawning recognition that the future, be it capital-T Tomorrow or just tomorrow, Friday, just means more stuff, however peculiar and unexpected. A new quotidian. Somebody’s future, somebody else’s past.
- CouchDB: The Definitive Guide books.couchdb.org
- Foyles - David Mitchell Selects... foyles.co.uk
To celebrate the publication of his eagerly anticipated new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell makes a selection, exclusively for Foyles, of his favourite books.
More disturbingly, [Jonathan Safran Foer] only considers a world where people are in a position to make choices about what they eat. Eating Animals is written by a well-educated, well-fed person for well-educated, well-fed readers. Nor does he contextualise his argument. It never ranges beyond the confines of America. He doesn't seriously examine why people might want to, or have to eat meat, or what meat means to individuals or societies. He proposes no solutions other than mass conversion to vegetarianism, although it doesn't seem to occur to him that the damage done by factory farming doesn't begin and end with animals but embraces all foods.
- The Freedoms of Suburbia by Paul Barker | Book review | Art and design | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"Among many fine photographs in the book is one of Highfort Court flats, in Kingsbury, north London, designed in 1936 by the architect Ernest Trobridge to demonstrate his Swedenborgian belief in symbolism (the building's chimneys are turrets, its entrance a drawbridge)." The Council Flats of Kingsbury?
- Charlie's Diary: Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens antipope.org
Today's big news is that Amazon are going to start selling Kindle ebook readers world-wide. Let me explain why I think this is very bad news for writers.
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) robinsloan.com
Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.
The follow up to High Performance Websites, from Steve Souders and other yahoos.
- No Man’s Blog - This Book Will Be Famous (I hope) no-mans-blog.com
Great idea. "It’s a little social experiment that is best described as Pass the Parcel, meets Six Degrees of Separation, meets Message in a Bottle. Every person who receives this book leaves a trace on the next available page [then] they will send the book to the most famous person they know personally. Once we get the book from the last famous person, we’ll auction it on ebay and donate all the money to the NSPCC."
- A Reader's Manifesto theatlantic.com
An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose
- Is Cory Doctorow Worth a damn? | Ask Metafilter ask.metafilter.com
Who to read besides Coupland, Stephenson, Gibson, and Sterling? I need an informational intake of this sort of highly-regarded (speculative? cyber?) fiction on a regular basis, or else I become irritable.
- Social Media Marketing eBook: Blogger Relations, Facebook Marketing, SMO and Word of Mouth on the Web socialmediaready.com
This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook.
- FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog » How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer freelanceswitch.com
212 Pages of Expert Freelancing Advice
- Best Practices for Web Developers v1.03 masukomi.org
A heuristic approach to version control, unit testing, and app deployment.
- About the Book - Designing Interfaces designinginterfaces.com
An intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language.
- Managing Humans - An Introduction managinghumans.com
This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff.