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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:40:27 +0200
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Books I am currently reading / listening
-- Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
-- The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
-- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Yuval Noah Harari; Audiobook
-- 2005 - Okular; Alastair Reynolds; eBook
+- Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook (Kobo kePub)
+- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Yuval Noah Harari; Audiobook (Libro.fm)
+- 2005 - Okular; Alastair Reynolds; eBook (Kobo kePub)
+- 2021 - Inhibitor Phase; Alastair Reynolds; Audiobook (Libro.fm)
Next books already in my shelf
-- 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts; Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey; eBook
+- 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts; Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey; eBook (ePub)
- 1992 - A Fire Upon the Deep (german: Ein Feuer auf der Tiefe); Vernor Vinge; eBook (buecher.de)
- 2025 - Origin: Die Entdecknug (german); Andreas Brandhorst; eBook (buecher.de)
- 2025 - Origin: Die Erweckung (german); Joschua Tree; eBook (buecher.de)
- 2025 - Origin: Die Erloesung (german); Brandon Q. Morris; eBook (buecher.de)
-- 2021 - Inhibitor Phase; Alastair Reynolds; Audiobook
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+Book wishlist
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+- 2025 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl (german)
Books I've read
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In random order:
-- Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
-- The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
-- Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
-- Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
-- Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+- Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
- Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
-- Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
-- Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+- Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
+- Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+- Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+- Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
+- Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
- Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
+- Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
+- The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
+- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+- The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
+- The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
+- Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
+- The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+- Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
+- Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
+- Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+- Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
- Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
-- Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
-- The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
-- DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
-- 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
-- Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
-- The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+- Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
- 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
+- 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
+- Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
+- Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+- DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
- 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
- Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+- Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+- Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
- Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
-- Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-- Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
-- Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
-- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
+- Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
- 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
-- The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
-- Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
-- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+- Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+- Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
- Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
-- Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
-- Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
-- DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
+- Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
+- Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
- Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
-- Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-- Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-- Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
-- Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
-- Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-- Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
-- The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
-- Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
-- Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
-- Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
-- Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
-- Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
-- The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
+- The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
- C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
+- DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
+- The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
+- Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
+- Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+- Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
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:
+- Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
+- Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
+- BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
- Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
-- The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
- Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
- Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
-- BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
+- The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
- Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
-- Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
-- Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
-- The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
-- So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+- The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
- The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
-- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
-- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
-- Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
-- The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
-- Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
-- Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
-- Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-- Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
- Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
-- The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
-- Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
-- Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
-- Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
-- The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
-- Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
-- The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
-- The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-- Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
-- Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
- Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
- Getting Things Done; David Allen
+- The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
+- So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
+- Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
+- Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
+- Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
+- Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
- The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
-- 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
+- Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+- Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
+- The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
+- Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
+- Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
+- Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
+- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
+- The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
+- The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
- Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
-- Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
+- Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+- Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+- Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
- Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
- Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
-- The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
- Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
-- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
-- Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+- The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+- The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+- The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
+- The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
+- Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
+- Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
- 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
-- Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
Here are notes of mine for some of the books
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Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
+- Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
+- The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
- Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
-- Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
- Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
-- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
-- MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
-- Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
-- Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
-- Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
-- Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
- 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
+- Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
- The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
-- The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
- F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
- AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
-- Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
+- Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
+- Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
- Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
+- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
+- MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
+- Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
-- Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
- How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
+- Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Podcasts
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In random order:
-- Cup o' Go [Golang]
-- Pratical AI
-- The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
- Fork Around And Find Out
-- BSD Now [BSD]
+- The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
+- The Changelog Podcast(s)
+- The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
+- Cup o' Go [Golang]
- Modern Mentor
- Maintainable
+- BSD Now [BSD]
- Deep Questions with Cal Newport
-- Dev Interrupted
+- Fallthrough [Golang]
- Backend Banter
- Wednesday Wisdom
- Hidden Brain
-- The Changelog Podcast(s)
-- The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
-- Fallthrough [Golang]
+- Dev Interrupted
+- Pratical AI
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.
-- Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
-- Modern Mentor
- Java Pub House
+- Modern Mentor
- CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
-- Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
- FLOSS weekly
+- Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
+- Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
Newsletters I like
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
-- Register Spill
-- Ruby Weekly
- byteSizeGo
- The Imperfectionist
- Golang Weekly
-- VK Newsletter
-- The Valuable Dev
- Monospace Mentor
-- Changelog News
- The Pragmatic Engineer
+- The Valuable Dev
- Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
+- Ruby Weekly
+- Register Spill
- Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
+- Changelog News
+- VK Newsletter
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:
+- Linux User
- LWN (online only)
- freeX (not published anymore)
- Linux Magazine
-- Linux User
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* 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
+* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
* Getting Things Done; David Allen
* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
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Hello!
-This site was generated at 2025-10-28T20:14:24+02:00 by Gemtexter
+This site was generated at 2025-10-29T09:39:17+02:00 by Gemtexter
Welcome to the foo.zone!
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My machine uptime stats
-This site was last updated at 2025-10-28T20:14:24+02:00
+This site was last updated at 2025-10-29T09:39:16+02:00
The following stats were collected via uptimed on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by guprecords, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.
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