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Gödel Escher Bach, or GEB. It's one of the most informative books I've ever read with a really valuable perspective to view information through. I find myself applying it more frequently the more recently I've re-read it.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...
I keep ~10 books at my desk. 9 of them are related to Javascript / Python / Probability etc [1]., There is one book though, that I really love to see everyday. Arabian Nights. That was the first book that was gifted to me when I was 11. I always had it with me. It reminds me of my childhood when things get too stressed and I read excerpts out of this book. [1] https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activa…
I've been meaning to read it, and I think it's really interesting that it provides enough value to be among the others.
Nothing related to my day job in JS land, just fun reading material for my free time.
I actually just made an engine [1] for the Searx [2] meta-search engine to allow it to search through a local library using the Recoll [3] search engine, making life even easier as search over my personal library is now integrated into the same search engine I use for other purposes. With full text search using a query language [4] which resembled the defunct Xesam [5] language it is above and beyond what the likes of Google Scholar offer.
While I'm in many ways something of a traditionalist - living on a 17th century farm in Sweden, cooking on a wood-burning stove, riding sidecar Soviet motorbikes etc - I made the move to a more or less paperless office quite a while ago. The one thing I do not do is rely on third-party services to accomplish this as those have proven to be both unreliable as well as unreasonably inquisitive with regard to any personal details they can filch from their users. I keep my own 'cloud', have my own (meta-)search engine, my own mail/web/etc server, etc.
[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
[2] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/pull/1257 and https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/pull/61
[3] http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
[4] http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/webhelp/docs...
Silence, John Cage Man Against Myth, Barrows Dunham The Elements Of Style, Strunk & White (4th ed.) Telling Writing, Macrorie The Zen Teaching Of Huang Po The Pocket Pema Chödrön Why I Write, George Orwell Others come and go from time to time, but those stay.
Reference:
- Effective Java (good for learning the mindset of developing backward-compatible APIs in any language)
- Enterprise Integration Patterns (I work on an enterprise APIs team)
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Camel in Action
- The Phoenix Project
- Making Work Visible
- Effective DevOps
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- REST in Practice- USB Complete 4th ed (Axelson)
- Electromagnetic Compatibility (Ott)
- Small Signal Audio Design (Self)
- Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus
- Verilog by Example (a.k.a. the Little Blue Book) (Readler)
- Mouser Catalog
~10 SQL Server/DW/BI books (not just on the desk but scattered everywhere)