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From: Paul Buetow
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2025 12:55:08 +0200
Subject: Update content for html
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- 2025 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl (german)
+- Bozo Loop - https://rachelbythebay.gumroad.com/l/bozo-loop-epub
+- Maybe Understanding Distributed Systems - https://understandingdistributed.systems (or do I know most of it already?)
Books I've read
Resources, Technical Books, Podcasts, Courses and Guides I recommend
Novels I've read
+Things I am currently learning
+
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+- Bulgarian language level 4 (A2)
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+Things I want to learn (soon?)
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+- jqlang - Deep dive into https://jqlang.org
+- d2lant - Deep dive into https://d2lang.com
+- Advanced Prometheus Course at Grafana Labs
+
That's all for now...
Back to the main site
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In random order:
-- The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
-- Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-- Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-- The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
- Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
-- Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
-- Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
-- Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-- Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
-- Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
-- 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
-- DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
-- Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
-- Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
-- Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
-- Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
-- Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-- Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
-- Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
-- The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
-- Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
-- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
-- 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
- The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+- Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
- Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
+- C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
+- Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
- Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
-- Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+- Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
+- 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
+- Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
+- The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+- Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
+- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+- The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
- The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
-- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
-- Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+- Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
+- Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+- Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+- Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
+- 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
+- Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+- Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+- Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
+- Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
- The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
- Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
-- Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
-- Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
-- Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
+- Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
+- Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
+- Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+- Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
+- Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
+- Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
- DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
+- Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
+- Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
- Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
-- Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
+- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
+- The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
+- Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
- Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
-- Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
-- The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
-- Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
-- Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
-- 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
-- Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
-- C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
-- Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+- Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
+- Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
+- Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
+- Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
+- The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
+- 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
+- DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
Technical references
I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:
-- Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
-- The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
+- Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
- Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
-- Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
+- Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
- Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
- Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
-- Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
- BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
+- The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
+- Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
+- The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+- Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
+- The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
+- Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
+- So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
- Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
-- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
+- Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
+- The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
+- The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
+- The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+- Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+- Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
- The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
-- Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
- Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
-- The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
-- Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
-- Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
-- The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
+- Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
+- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
+- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
+- Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
- The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
- Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
-- Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
-- The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
-- Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
- Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
-- Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
-- 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
- Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
-- Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
-- Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
-- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
-- Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
-- The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
+- Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
+- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
+- Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+- Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
- Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
-- The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
-- The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
-- The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
-- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
- Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
-- Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
- Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
-- The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
-- Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-- So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
- Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
-- Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+- Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+- The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
+- Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
+- 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
+- The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
- The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
+- The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
- Getting Things Done; David Allen
Here are notes of mine for some of the books
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Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
-- Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
-- Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
+- Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
+- Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
+- Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
- F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
+- AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
+- Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
- Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
-- Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
+- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
+- Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
+- The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
+- Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
+- Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
- The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
- Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
-- MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
-- Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
-- Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
-- Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
-- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
-- Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
- Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
-- AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
-- The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
+- MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
-- Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
-- How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
+- How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
+- Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
Podcasts
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In random order:
-- BSD Now [BSD]
-- Backend Banter
-- Hidden Brain
-- Modern Mentor
-- Pratical AI
-- The Changelog Podcast(s)
- Cup o' Go [Golang]
-- Maintainable
-- Fork Around And Find Out
-- Wednesday Wisdom
- The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
+- Wednesday Wisdom
+- Backend Banter
- Fallthrough [Golang]
-- The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
- Deep Questions with Cal Newport
+- Maintainable
+- The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
- Dev Interrupted
+- Hidden Brain
+- The Changelog Podcast(s)
+- BSD Now [BSD]
+- Fork Around And Find Out
+- Modern Mentor
+- Pratical AI
Podcasts I liked
I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests.
-- Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
-- Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
- Modern Mentor
-- FLOSS weekly
+- Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
- Java Pub House
+- FLOSS weekly
- CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
+- Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
Newsletters I like
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
-- Register Spill
+- The Imperfectionist
- Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
+- Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
+- Register Spill
+- The Pragmatic Engineer
- byteSizeGo
-- The Imperfectionist
- Monospace Mentor
+- Golang Weekly
+- Changelog News
- VK Newsletter
-- The Pragmatic Engineer
- The Valuable Dev
- Ruby Weekly
-- Changelog News
-- Golang Weekly
-- Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
Magazines I like(d)
This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order:
-- Linux User
-- Linux Magazine
- LWN (online only)
- freeX (not published anymore)
+- Linux Magazine
+- Linux User
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Hello!
-This site was generated at 2025-11-06T15:59:40+02:00 by Gemtexter
+This site was generated at 2025-11-09T12:53:07+02:00 by Gemtexter
Welcome to the foo.zone!
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My machine uptime stats
-This site was last updated at 2025-11-06T15:59:44+02:00
+This site was last updated at 2025-11-09T12:53:12+02:00
The following stats were collected via uptimed on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by guprecords, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.
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