It is time! Let’s look back at 2020
.. learned from some serious material on software engineering
- “Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems”, O’Reilly
- “Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems”, O’Reilly
- “Introducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable Programs”, O’Reilly
- “I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration”, O’Reilly
- “Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure..”, O’Reilly
- “Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services”, O’Reilly
- ⭐️ “The Go Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley
- ⭐️ “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”, Addison-Wesley
- ⭐️ “Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment”, Addison-Wesley
- ⭐️ “The Art of UNIX Programming”, Addison-Wesley
- “BPF Performance Tools”, Addison-Wesley
- “Modern Data Mining Algorithms in C++ and Cuda C..”, Apress
- “http2 explained”, “HTTP/3 explained”, Daniel Stenberg
- “Mastering PostgreSQL 12”, Packt
.. followed historical accounts on computing
- ⭐️ 2000, “Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age”, Michael A. Hiltzik
- ⭐️ 2001, “The Dream Machine”, M. Mitchell Waldrop, Stripe Press
.. which inspired me to check famous works on computing from 20th century
- 1945, “As We May Think”, Vannevar Bush
- 1948, “Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, Norbert Wiener
- 1951, “The General and Logical Theory of Automata”, John von Neumann
- 1960, “Man-Computer Symbiosis”, J.C.R. Licklider,
.. dived deep into neuroscience
- “Translational Neuroscience”, Strüngmann Forum 2015, MIT Press
- ⭐️ “Emergent Brain Dynamics: Prebirth to Adolescence”, Strüngmann Forum 2017, MIT Press
- ⭐️ “The Neocortex”, Strüngmann Forum 2019, MIT Press
- ⭐️ “Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognitive Development: From Infancy Through Emerging Adulthood”, Springer
- “Chasing Men on Fire: The Story of the Search for a Pain Gene”, MIT Press
- “Cannabinoids and the Brain”, MIT Press
.. enjoyed some good science fiction
- “To Build a Fire”, Jack London
- ⭐️ “The Last Question”, Isaac Asimov
- ⭐️ “Cryptonomicon”, Neal Stephenson
- ⭐️ “Rendezvous with Rama”, Arthur C. Clarke
- ⭐️ “We are Bob”, #2, #3, #4 Dennis E. Taylor
- “Sleeping Giants”, Sylvain Neuvel
- “Artemis”, Andy Weir
.. got inspired from few biographies
- ⭐️ “A Man for All Markets”, Edward O. Thorp
- ⭐️ “What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence”, Stephen A. Schwarzman
- “Greenlights”, Matthew McConaughey
.. some popular science
- “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”, Katie Mack
- ⭐️ “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, Oliver Sacks
- “The River of Consciousness”, Oliver Sacks
- “Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time”, MIT Press
- “Is the Universe a Hologram?: Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions”, MIT Press
- “How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI”, MIT Press
.. few unusual essays
- ⭐️ “In the Beginning was the Command Line”, Neal Stephenson
- “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, Richard P. Feynman
.. finished recommendation from one of the smartest people I knew
- ⭐️ “Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager”, Michael Lopp
.. something for piece of mind
- ✨ “Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life”
- “Ego Is the Enemy”, Ryan Holiday
- “Zen-Brain Horizons: Toward a Living Zen”, MIT Press
- “The Courage to Be Disliked..”
.. most powerful things I ever seen
- 🔥 “The Art of War”, Sun Tzu
- 🔥 “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds”, David Goggins
54 in total, 24 planned, longest 1,139p., avg 300p.
