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* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Podcasts I liked
* ⇢ ⇢ Newsletters I like
* ⇢ ⇢ Magazines I like(d)
+* ⇢ ⇢ YouTube channels
* ⇢ Formal education
## Technical books
In random order:
-* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
-* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
-* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
-* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
-* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
-* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
+* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
-* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
-* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
-* Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
-* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
-* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
-* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
-* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
-* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
-* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
-* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
-* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
-* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
+* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
-* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
+* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
+* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
-* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
+* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
+* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
+* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
-* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
-* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
-* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
-* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
-* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
-* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
-* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
-* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
+* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
+* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
+* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
+* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
* The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
+* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
+* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
+* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
-* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
+* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
+* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
-* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
-* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
+* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
+* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
+* Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
+* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
+* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
+* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
+* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
## Technical references
I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:
-* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
-* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
+* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
+* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
+* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
-* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
## Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
-* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
-* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
-* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
-* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
-* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
-* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
-* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
-* Getting Things Done; David Allen
* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
+* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
+* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
+* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
-* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
+* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
+* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
+* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
+* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+* Getting Things Done; David Allen
+* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
+* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
+* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
-* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
-* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
-* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
-* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
-* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
+* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
-* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
-* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
-* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
-* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
-* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
-* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
+* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
+* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
-* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
-* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
-* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
+* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
+* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
+* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
+* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
+* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
+* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
+* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
-* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
+* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
-* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
-* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
-* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
+* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
+* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
=> ../notes/index.gmi Here are notes of mine for some of the books
@@ -146,29 +147,29 @@ In random order:
Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
-* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
-* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
-* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
-* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
+* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
-* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
-* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
-* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
-* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
+* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
+* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
+* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
+* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
+* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
+* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
+* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
+* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
-* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
## Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
-* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
+* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
* Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
## Podcasts
@@ -177,58 +178,63 @@ These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very use
In random order:
-* Fork Around And Find Out
-* Cup o' Go [Golang]
-* Fallthrough [Golang]
-* Modern Mentor
-* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
-* Backend Banter
* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
-* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
-* Hidden Brain
* The Changelog Podcast(s)
+* Hidden Brain
+* Cup o' Go [Golang]
* Dev Interrupted
-* BSD Now [BSD]
+* Backend Banter
+* Modern Mentor
* Maintainable
+* Fallthrough [Golang]
+* BSD Now [BSD]
* Pratical AI
* Wednesday Wisdom
+* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
+* Fork Around And Find Out
+* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
### Podcasts I liked
I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests.
-* Modern Mentor
+* Java Pub House
* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
+* Modern Mentor
* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
-* Java Pub House
-* FLOSS weekly
* Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
+* FLOSS weekly
## Newsletters I like
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
-* VK Newsletter
-* Register Spill
-* byteSizeGo
-* Changelog News
* The Pragmatic Engineer
-* The Valuable Dev
-* Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
+* Changelog News
* Golang Weekly
+* Ruby Weekly
+* VK Newsletter
* The Imperfectionist
* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
-* Ruby Weekly
+* byteSizeGo
+* Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
+* The Valuable Dev
+* Register Spill
* Monospace Mentor
## Magazines I like(d)
This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order:
-* LWN (online only)
* freeX (not published anymore)
-* Linux User
* Linux Magazine
+* Linux User
+* LWN (online only)
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+## YouTube channels
+
+* Jo Van Eyck - A lot about AI in Software Engineering
+* The Linux Experiment - Nice to watch to relax and learn about Linux news
# Formal education