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C:\USERS\RYAN\READING_LOG · cga_text_mode · 80x25

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$ ls /var/library --by-status

reading_log

a card catalog of what's on the desk, the shelf, and the maybe-pile.

// reading
2 entries
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
READING

» halfway through. holds up forty years later.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
█████READING

» re-reading the consensus chapters.

// finished
6 entries
The Mythical Man-Month
Fred Brooks
█████FINISHED

» every chapter aged into a fortune cookie.

Code
Charles Petzold
█████FINISHED

» the book i wish i'd read at 14.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy
████FINISHED
Crafting Interpreters
Robert Nystrom
█████FINISHED

» the typesetting alone is worth it.

The Pragmatic Programmer
Hunt & Thomas
████FINISHED
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Arpaci-Dusseau
█████FINISHED

» free online. a gift to the field.

// queued
2 entries
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Abelson & Sussman
QUEUED
Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows
QUEUED
// abandoned
1 entries
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
ABANDONED

» round 3 someday.

-- tty1 · interactive_shell --READY
tty1 — ryan@amber-lab :: type `help` to begin · try `ai who built you?`
C:\READING>
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