Saturday, October 24, 2020

Book list

I update this periodically. My Kobo has recently been resurrected from the trash heap as the result of a firmware upgrade so this list is fairly new.

In Progress

  • Soonish (where's the future we predicted?)

On Deck

Suggestions?

Read

Fiction

  • The Masque of the Red Death (part of the anthology Radicalized by Cory Doctorow)
  • Radicalized (part of the anthology Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
  • Model Minority (part of the anthology adicalized by Cory Doctorow)
  • Unauthorized Bread (part of the anthology Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

Non-Fiction

  • The Upstarts (Uber and AirBnB histories)
  • Head In The Cloud (Why know anything when you can look up everything?)
  • The Four Horsemen (FAAG economics)
  • Everybody Lies (statistical analysis of lying)

at

Right to Repair finally gets a win.

"Big Ag is a particularly odious repair troll, and John Deere is its standard-bearer. The company has been trying to felonize farmers&#...

  • Alternative way to write PHP $_POST data
    I had a situation recently where I could not write the $_POST array to a file. During debug, I learned that the $_POST data was being saved ...
  • Right to Repair finally gets a win.
    "Big Ag is a particularly odious repair troll, and John Deere is its standard-bearer. The company has been trying to felonize farmers&#...
  • No thanks to Google banking
    The new Google Pay app is reported to have peer to peer payments and acts more like a banking app than a payment app. Those who know me know...