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I've been following the development of http://browser.engineering/ and it's so much fun to go through. Highly recommended!
Mazes for Programmers is on my bookshelf. I've gone through the first few chapters coding along in Go and going on weird diversions. It's totally pointless, and I love it. There's also "The Ray Tracer Challenge" by the same author, which looks phenomenal.
Ruby Under the Microscope: http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope The CS Detective: https://nostarch.com/csdetective Mazes for Programmers: http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ A Curious Moon: https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/ xchg rax,rax: https://www.xorpd.net/pages/xchg_rax/snip_00.html
> xchg rax,rax Yes!!! Great list, thanks for sharing.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications... I surprisingly really enjoyed it. Well written and it pulled back the veil on a lot of concepts that I thought were too complex for me to understand/enjoy.
Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley contain short articles "in the realm of insight and creativity." These articles appeared during the 80s in Communications of the ACM, but I think they are still mostly relevant and inspiring today. The second edition from 2000 is online available at https://archive.org/details/ProgrammingPearls2ndEditionJonBe...
Definitely helped understand in place quicksort and need to swap pivot value.
For those still confused remember the invariants
Start with:[????????????p?????], end with:[|p|]
Partition via:[p|p] (pivot|less than or equal to pivot|untested values|greater than pivot).
Giving: [|p|p|]
pivot|less than or equal pivot|greater than. This requires swapping pivot at end of partition step
I thought Knuts Literate Programming book ( https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html ) was extremely interesting, the paper "the errors of TeX" which is a part of it is one of the more interesting papers I've read. Joe Armstrong used to recommend Algorithms + Data structures = Programs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures... ) but I haven't read it. Okay I know you said no to the l…
Is GEB considered to be one? It's not exactly CS but can be related, plus it was very well written.
Heard little about it and tried reading start but didn't seem very groundbreaking
Along the same lines, while not a book, videos and documents about debugging electromechanical pinballs and modular analog synthesizers provide great reference points for what digital systems could look like or strive to emulate, and physical engineering, woodworking and construction decenter the computer as the whole of the process while still being very logical and systematic. At the top level it's usually finding the right structural metaphor that dogs practical programming and gets it into a loop of endless data collection and reprocessing, so it helps to have other things in mind and try to discern ultimate aims.
I don't know if mine qualify and how HN feels about self-promotion, but I can't resist the opportunity to mention my project. I'm working on a collection of 12 books about software development and IT: https://dev-concepts.dev/table-of-contents I try not to get down to the level of atoms and molecules, but I'm going deep down the rabbit hole, and it's quite fun!
Self promotion in general is fine on HN but I think it's pretty hard to objectively say anything you write yourself is well written!