I’ve followed The Art of Manliness blog for quite some time now. To say that it’s changed my life would be an understatement The articles I really love, are the ones based on philosophy. And the ones I really love are the ones that resonated with what I already knew, or had read and forgotten Articles that distilled the advice of old greats like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, with the new thinkers; Taleb, Stephen Pressfield, Ryan Holiday and Cal Newport. ...
TL;DR? It’s awesome. Buy it right now. I was looking to dip my toes into some sort of structured help with the summer training and open source in general, because while I knew what I wanted, I just didn’t know how to go about it. And then I realised that one of our mentors had actually gone and written a whole book on the how to. So, I bought the paperback. The binding is really good, the paper really nice (unlike other tech books I’ve read) and the words large enough to read. I expect to get a lot of use, out of the book. ...
Since I’ve been having so much trouble grasping the basic fundamentals of coding, I decided to learn from “children’s” books. Lauren Ipsum has been lying in my library for a while now. Here’s the summary from the introductory pages, Lauren, a clever girl lost in Userland, applies logic and problem solving skills to find her way home, encountering along the way such concepts as timing attacks, algorithm design, and the traveling salesman problem. ...