Julien Cortesi rated The Electric State: 4 stars
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where …
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Julien Cortesi rated Why We Sleep: 3 stars
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, …
Julien Cortesi rated Frontier: 4 stars
Frontier by Guillaume Singelin
Quand la Terre suffoque de par l'exploitation de ses dernières ressources, l'humanité se tourne vers un nouveau territoire, l'espace, au-delà …
Julien Cortesi rated Le problème à trois corps: 3 stars
Le problème à trois corps by Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'Three-Body'; pinyin: sān tǐ) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu …
Julien Cortesi rated Designing Data-Intensive Applications: 5 stars
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such …
Julien Cortesi rated Computer Science Distilled: 4 stars
Julien Cortesi rated Meet Us by the Roaring Sea: 5 stars
Julien Cortesi rated A history of the Internet and the digital future: 4 stars
Julien Cortesi rated There is No Antimemetics Division: 5 stars
Julien Cortesi rated Just for Fun: 4 stars
Just for Fun by David Diamond, Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds erzählt, wie es dazu kam, dass er Linux entwickelte und gibt Einblicke in seine Denkweise.
Julien Cortesi rated Tracers in the Dark: 4 stars
Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of …
Julien Cortesi rated Sandworm: 4 stars
Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the future of global warfare
In 2014, …
Julien Cortesi rated Software Engineering at Google: 5 stars
Julien Cortesi rated A Hacker's Mind: 4 stars
A Hacker's Mind by Bruce Schneier
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but …
Julien Cortesi rated Escape: 4 stars
Escape by Marie Le Conte
'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by …