From 9df5a746566bc0100eb41a2d6a7d79d0f91a727f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:33:47 +0300 Subject: Update content for gemtext --- about/resources.gmi | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 108 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-) (limited to 'about/resources.gmi') diff --git a/about/resources.gmi b/about/resources.gmi index baf76a4b..445331d2 100644 --- a/about/resources.gmi +++ b/about/resources.gmi @@ -30,117 +30,119 @@ You won't find any links on this site because, over time, the links will break. * ⇢ ⇢ Newsletters I like * ⇢ ⇢ Magazines I like(d) * ⇢ ⇢ YouTube channels +* ⇢ Individual videos * ⇢ Formal education ## Technical books In random order: -* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly -* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson -* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle -* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress -* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly -* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly -* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing -* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer -* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible -* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly -* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly -* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly -* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly -* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook +* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers * Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers -* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press +* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt * 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications -* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible +* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly * Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress +* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders * Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press +* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt +* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann +* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible +* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly +* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress +* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible * Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing -* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly -* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers +* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson +* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School +* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle +* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press +* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly +* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer * The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley +* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup; +* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook +* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress +* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly * Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy -* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt -* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly +* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; +* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly +* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf +* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner +* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly * 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly -* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders -* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications -* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress -* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly -* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann -* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional -* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup; -* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional -* Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook -* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton * DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly -* 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts;Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey; O'Reilly -* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner +* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly +* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional +* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly * Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press -* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook -* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly -* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; +* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly +* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing +* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications * 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 -* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School -* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt -* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf +* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton +* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook +* 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts;Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey; O'Reilly +* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly +* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly +* Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook +* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional ## 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: * Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas -* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley -* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly * The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press -* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt +* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley * BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley +* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly * Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly * Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly +* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt ## Self-development and soft-skills books In random order: -* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin -* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select -* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion -* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook -* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook -* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd +* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books +* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy +* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley +* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus +* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business +* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook * Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook -* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing -* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon * Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks -* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK +* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University +* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME) * The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite +* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook +* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers +* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin +* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK +* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business +* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook +* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons +* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate * Getting Things Done; David Allen -* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook * The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook -* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME) +* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook +* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select * Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne -* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books -* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications -* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers -* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME) -* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University -* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business -* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook -* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus +* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook +* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME) +* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd +* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion +* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge * Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly +* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications * Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press -* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook -* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley * The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books -* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge -* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy -* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business -* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House -* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons -* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate +* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon +* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook * So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus -* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook +* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House +* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing +* [german]: Positiv wirkt - Wie du mit positivem Denken und Handeln aktiv dein Leben gestaltest; Armin Schubert; BusinessVillage => ../notes/index.gmi Here are notes of mine for some of the books @@ -148,30 +150,30 @@ In random order: Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order: -* 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) -* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training -* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training -* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. -* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training -* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online -* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon * The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online -* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online * Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online +* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online +* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training * Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online -* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online -* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; -* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen * Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training +* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online +* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen +* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online +* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training +* Protocol buffers; 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) +* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon +* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training +* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. ## Technical guides These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order: * Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide -* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide * How CPUs work at https://cpu.land +* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide ## Podcasts @@ -179,64 +181,68 @@ These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very use In random order: -* Dev Interrupted +* Backend Banter +* Pratical AI +* Modern Mentor * BSD Now [BSD] -* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast) * Hidden Brain -* The Changelog Podcast(s) -* Pratical AI -* Fork Around And Find Out +* Cup o' Go [Golang] +* Maintainable * Wednesday Wisdom +* Deep Questions with Cal Newport * Fallthrough [Golang] * The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast -* Deep Questions with Cal Newport -* Maintainable -* Backend Banter -* Cup o' Go [Golang] -* Modern Mentor +* Dev Interrupted +* Fork Around And Find Out +* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast) +* The Changelog Podcast(s) ### 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) * FLOSS weekly * Modern Mentor * Java Pub House -* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough) * 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: * Applied Go Weekly Newsletter -* byteSizeGo -* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author) -* The Pragmatic Engineer -* The Imperfectionist * Golang Weekly +* Register Spill * Monospace Mentor -* The Valuable Dev * Ruby Weekly -* Register Spill -* VK Newsletter +* The Valuable Dev * Changelog News +* VK Newsletter +* byteSizeGo +* The Imperfectionist +* The Pragmatic Engineer +* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author) ## 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: +* freeX (not published anymore) * Linux User -* Linux Magazine * LWN (online only) -* freeX (not published anymore) +* Linux Magazine ## YouTube channels * Jo Van Eyck - A lot about AI in Software Engineering * The Linux Experiment - Nice to watch to relax and learn about Linux news +# Individual videos + +=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=SxdOUGdseq4 "Simple Made Easy" by Rich Hickey + # Formal education I have met many self-taught IT professionals I highly respect. In my own opinion, a formal degree does not automatically qualify a person for a particular job. It is more about how you educate yourself further *after* formal education. The pragmatic way of thinking and getting things done do not require a college or university degree. -- cgit v1.2.3