Just proud of myself and wanted to brag, but I missed that post from a few days ago. AMA about any of these if you're curious:
books
January
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Robert Nichols - Theft is Property!
Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem
Tom O'Neill - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Andre Alexis - Fifteen Dogs
Aph Ko - Racism as Zoological Witchcraft
Various Authors - Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Fiction
Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, & Pun Ngai - Dying for an iPhone
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Found and the Lost (13 novellas)
W. E. B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
Brian Moore - The Magician's Wife
February
Charles Taylor - Modern Social Imaginaries
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
William Blum - Killing Hope
Michelle Good - Five Little Indians
Kristen J. Sollée - Witches, Sluts, Feminists
March
Catherine Hernandez - Scarborough
Jane Jacobs - The Life and Death of Great American Cities
Omar El Akkad - What Strange Paradise
Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols - The Rust Programming Language
Esi Edugyan - Washington Black
April
Clayton Thomas-Müeller - Life in the City of Dirty Water
Marcel Proust - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Aditya Bhargava - Grokking Algorithms
Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest
May
Karl Marx - Capital Vol. 3
June
Peter Watts - Blindsight
John P. Clark - Between Earth and Empire
Marcel Proust - Guermantes Way
Jessica Fern - Polysecure
Sara Collins - Confessions of Frannie Langton
G. W. F. Hegel - Introduction to the Philosophy of History
July
Xiran Jay Zhao - Iron Widow
Kim Moody - Tramps and Trade Union Travelers
Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend
Itzik Ben-Gan - T-SQL Fundamentals
August
Homer - The Illiad
Keith Basso - Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
September
Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah
Richard Lachmann - First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
October
Marcel Proust - The Prisoner
James Ladyman and Don Ross - Every Thing Must Go
November
Marcel Proust - The Fugitive
Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté - The Myth of Normal
Nora Roberts - Origin in Death
Stephanie Kelton - The Deficit Myth
December
Marcel Proust - Finding Time Again
Tyler A. Shipley - Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination
Adrienne Maree Brown - Grievers
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
How do you read technical books like these without being bored out of your mind? I mostly use them as references when I need to look up something. I can't imagine reading the entire book from cover to cover. The followup question would be are they good reference books?
Idk I think that's just the easier way for me to pick up knowledge. Both of them aren't really reference books - the SQL one is more of a theoretical foundation - which made a useful companion to the practical SQL I do every day at work - and the Rust one steps upward through the language in complexity. The former was to help with my job, the latter was earlier and was actually to help with the job search (Rust is actually what made my application stand out enough to get to the interview part of the process). Either way, if you want to get something out of them you should be practising with the concepts on the side.
If you want something more of a reference, I've heard good things about the SQL Cookbook. But for both SQL and Rust, you're going to get better on-the-fly info from StackOverflow and programming forums than from trying to index a book IMO.
Oh okay, that makes a lot more sense.