t/books

Reading Notes on Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann on replication lag, serializability, and derived data streams.

Review: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Affordances, signifiers, and why interfaces fail when they conceal their core mechanics.

Excerpts from Christopher Alexander: The Timeless Way of Building

A pattern language applies equally to monasteries, town squares, and microservice topologies.

Excerpts from Meditations (Gregory Hays Translation)

Brief passages on tranquility, rational nature, and cosmic order.

The Library of Babel: Jorge Luis Borges and Infinite Information

An allegory of unranked, uncurated data archives and the despair of endless search.

A Commonplace Book of Computational Epigrams

Alan Perlis epigrams revisited through the lens of modern distributed systems.

Review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Pirsig on Quality, classical vs romantic understanding, and craftsmanship.

Reading Marginalia from Medieval Scribes

Complaints about cold weather, poor parchment, and the joy of finishing a manuscript.

Review: The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

Omit needless words. A rule for both prose and code comments.

Excerpts from Italo Calvino: Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency.

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