Incremental reading

May 08, 2025

Approach

For PDFs, they're saved alongside the clips on this website. For actual books, they're either physical copies or managed by Calibre.

In progress

• Machiavelli, The Prince
  • ch.2
• Cabane, The Charisma Myth
  • ch.3, The Obstacles to Presence, Power, and Warmth
• Tan, Feng Shui Modern
  • ch.2
• Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
• Stone, Difficult Conversations
• Kleppmann, M, Designing Data Intensive Applications
• Navarro, What Every Body is Saying
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War
• Young, Versioning in an Event Sourced System
• Kleppmann, M & Howard, H, Byzantine Eventual Consistency and the Fundamental Limits of Peer-to-Peer Databases
• Willison, S, Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder
• Wikipedia, Specification by example
• Bloch, Effective Java, 3rd Edition
• Parnas, D.L., On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
• Waldo, J., Wyant, G., Wollrath, A. & Kendall, S., A Note on Distributed Computing
• Landin, P.J., The next 700 programming languages
• Backus, J., Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?
• Gabriel, R.P., Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
• Knight, John C. & Leveson, Nancy G., An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming
• Noble, J., Arguments and Results
• Beck, K., Cunningham, W., A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking
• Ungar, D., Smith, R.B., Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self
• Oracle, ConcurrentHashMap - striped locking, size estimation
• Oracle, TreeMap - red-black tree
• Wikipedia, TimSort - used in Arrays.sort()
• Oracle, ForkJoinPool - work-stealing algorithm
• Oracle, LinkedHashMap - LRU cache implementation technique
• The Reactive Manifesto

Ideas

Things that I want to learn about but haven't yet found the exact reading materials that I'm going to go through, or I haven't got a copy of the reading materials.

• Kleppmann, M, Making Sense of Stream Processing
• Oaks, S, Java Performance, The Definitive Guide
• Gregg, B, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition (2020)

Open source analysis

• Netty's async I/O architecture
• Spring Security's filter architecture

Tech blogs

• Jeffrey Palermo's Onion Architecture posts
• Martin Fowler's Bliki articles

Completed

• Thompson, K., Reflections on Trusting Trust