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Ben's Book of the Month: Review of "A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age" | RSA Conference
Found on https://www.rsaconference.com/library/Blog/bens-book-of-the-month-review-of-computer-security-and-the-internet, a review of Paul C. van Oorschot's "Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin".Mon May 5 12:45:00 2025 - permalink -
https://www.amazon.com/Vulnerable-System-Information-Security-Computer/dp/1501758942/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title- https://www.rsaconference.com/Library/blog/bens-book-of-the-month-review-of-a-vulnerable-system
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Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin
Interesting book by Paul C. van Oorschot, recommended by Rik Farrow on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-May/031832.htmlMon May 5 07:17:33 2025 - permalink -- https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/toolsjewels.html
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Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs – Random Thoughts
Great quote: "LLMs are plagiarism machines that use all of the world’s energy". Found via Sacha Chua's blog https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/04/2025-04-21-emacs-news/Tue Apr 29 10:49:30 2025 - permalink -- https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2025/04/17/perplexingly-book-learned-emacs/
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The Backbone – Creatures of Thought
Another interesting book, found via https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a-craving-for-calculation/ which was mentioned on the MoHP forum https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-22717-post-195784.html#pid195784Wed Nov 20 14:22:28 2024 - permalink -- https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/
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How to Design a Chip for Under $1,000 (Part 1): Book Recommendations
First part of a series describing how an ASIC can be designed for the https://efabless.com/tinytapeout project, by Andy Turudic.Fri Oct 4 21:01:44 2024 - permalink -
See also the article https://www.electronicdesign.com/blogs/nonlinearities/article/55134043/electronic-design-sothe-z80-is-rising-from-the-deadwith-an-on-chip-dac- https://www.electronicdesign.com/blogs/nonlinearities/article/55140130/electronic-design-how-to-design-a-chip-for-under-1000-part-1-book-recommendations
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Books by John Levine
Includes "Linkers and Loaders", which I have seen before, but apparently I had not bookmarked it.Mon Sep 2 23:42:27 2024 - permalink -- https://www.johnlevine.com/books.phtml
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A.J. Han Vinck - Wikipedia
His book "Coding Concepts and Reed-Solomon Codes" sounds interesting.Thu Apr 4 13:17:17 2024 - permalink -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Han_Vinck
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Oxide Computer Company
Was mentioned several times on the TUHS and/or COFF mailing lists, I foundTue Jan 9 10:42:56 2024 - permalink -
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/29/192248/building-a-better-server-oxide-computer-ships-its-first-rack
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/
The book recommendations on https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/books/ look interesting
See also https://hubris.oxide.computer/ for Hubris, a small open-source operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems written in Rust.- https://oxide.computer/
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Introducing IPython and the Jupyter Notebook
First chapter of the IPython Cookbook, Second Edition, by Cyrille Rossant, a guide to numerical computing https://ipython-books.github.io/Sun Jun 4 14:58:35 2023 - permalink -
Found on https://cyrille.rossant.net/ via the article https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/ cited on Peter Monta's blog http://www.pmonta.com/gnss-sky-recordings.html- https://ipython-books.github.io/11-introducing-ipython-and-the-jupyter-notebook/
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
Found via an interview with David Foster Wallace https://neugierig.org/content/dfw/believer_interview.pdfSun Jan 8 21:14:47 2023 - permalink -
Reviews are mixed, so I am undecided whether I should read it.- https://www.amazon.de/Everything-More-Compact-History-Infinity/
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Iterative Error Correction
Mentioned on Daniel Estévez' blog.Thu Oct 20 19:14:56 2022 - permalink -- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/iterative-error-correction/7964EAB1B743D56D2E9B58CCA4CE71EB
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Urbigenous Library
Mentioned on the MoHP forum https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-18873-post-164551.html#pid164551Mon Sep 26 14:42:51 2022 - permalink -- https://urbigenous.net/library/
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Read Practical Cryptography With Go | Leanpub
Found via a link on https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/ssh.htmlWed Aug 10 11:50:25 2022 - permalink -- https://leanpub.com/gocrypto/read#leanpub-auto-chapter-1-introduction
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Kallocain - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AniaraThu Jun 23 18:29:31 2022 - permalink -
Both found on Sandra Snan's blog https://idiomdrottning.org/genre-vs-literature- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallocain
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Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner : Hanson, Chris, Sussman, Gerald Jay: Amazon.de: Bücher
It was mentioned on a Lisp-related site or mailing list, I do not recall which one.Tue Jun 14 13:31:05 2022 - permalink -- https://www.amazon.de/Software-Design-Flexibility-Programming-Yourself/dp/0262045494/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YPOS25JJZHWR&keywords=software+design+for+flexibility&qid=1655201644&s=books&sprefix=Software+Design+for+Flexibility%2Cstripbooks%2C278&sr=1-1&asin=0262045494&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
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Real-World Cryptography
Tue Jun 7 17:24:27 2022 - permalink -- https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography
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athornton | The UNIX-HATERS Handbook, a review
Just what it says. The author had read the handbook soon after it came out and has revisited it 25 years later. He also offers interesting comments about most of the competing operating systems. See alsoWed May 18 10:00:53 2022 - permalink -
Making old systems accessible via the web https://athornton.dreamwidth.org/14733.html
Exploring old unixes https://athornton.dreamwidth.org/14340.html- https://athornton.dreamwidth.org/14272.html
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Crafting Interpreters, by Bob Nystrom
Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. See also the blog article http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafting-interpreters/ of the author, Bob Nystrom.Wed Mar 16 12:03:32 2022 - permalink -
Found on https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-17807-post-156535.html#pid156535- https://craftinginterpreters.com/
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The 1090MHz Riddle
A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals. An open access (CC BY-NC-SA-4.0) book about Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Mode S secondary surveillance radar systems.Thu Feb 17 14:27:56 2022 - permalink -- https://mode-s.org/decode/index.html