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emerald

emerald@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years ago

Trying to reclaim reading for fun from being forced to read for school

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Robert Nystrom: Crafting Interpreters (2021)

Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn …

Took a while working on it on and off, but finally got through both implementations of the toy language Lox. Definitely recommended if you want a ~~relatively~~ easy to follow introduction to writing interpreters/programming languages with a lot of example code.

Zeke Faux: Number Go Up (Paperback, 2023, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady …

An interesting look into how the purveyors of the crypto hype bubble work(ed). An impressive cast of zany real-life characters that all seem to take themselves too seriously. Recommended if you like seeing crytobros made fun of.

David Sax: The Revenge of Analog (2016)

"By now, we all know the mythology of the digital revolution: it improved efficiency, eliminated …

Idk just wasn't as interesting as I was expecting it to be. Guess I shouldn't have been surprised but it has a very capitalist perspective so it didn't really speak to me