This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.
Highly recommended things!
This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.
A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★
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| How Software Companies Die | |
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| - Orson Scott Card | |
| The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and | |
| marketing types - and vice versa. | |
| Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When | |
| you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into |
| defmodule MyBlog.Repo.Migrations.CreatePost do | |
| use Ecto.Migration | |
| def change do | |
| create table(:posts, primary_key: false) do | |
| add :id, :uuid, primary_key: true | |
| add :body, :string | |
| add :word_count, :integer | |
| timestamps |
