Finished reading: But now am found, by Patricia Horvath. Beautiful short story collection, each a compact gut punch.

Started reading: But Now Am Found by Patricia Horvath 📚.

Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Breezy fun for people who like to think 📚.

Started reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.

Finished reading: A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation by David Razowsky. It took me about a month. I found the biography section pretentious and long winded, but found the improv philosophy and practices inspiring 📚.

Started reading: A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation by David Razowsky 📚.

Finished reading: Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner. Good quick read on performance and minimizing JS, and I learned a few things. Felt good to know a lot of it and/or agree on the philosophy already 📚.

Started reading: Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner 📚.

Started reading: The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018).

I did not finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot. I got a bit over 200 pages in, and while I did really enjoy a lot of it, the whole thing is just too floridly Victorian for me at the moment 📚.

Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day 📚. ETags, anyone?

Started reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong. Published in 2000, it’s still a good refresher, although distressingly it omits status code 418 📚.

Started reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot 📚.

Finished reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. What a precisely rendered master crafted gut punch. Loved it.

Started reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. 📚

Finished reading: The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. I liked the insights into managing software, and the time traveling to the computing industry circa 1975–1995. Took me 1 month and 6 days.

“Read” the short story The Simplest Equation by Nicky Drayden, via Levar Burton Reads. Really beautiful. 📚

“Read” River’s Giving by Heather Shaw, Tim Pratt, and River Shaw over on LeVar Burton Reads. Cute, all ages holiday fantasy story.

Finished reading: Classic Tales of Horror (Arcturus Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe. Took me a bit to sink into the language, but once I did I really enjoyed this. Nice to read the big stories again as an adult, and I sometimes enjoyed the deep cuts.

I’ve started using Micro.blog’s bookshelves features to track my reading. Right now I’m obsessively trying to catalogue all the books I’ve ever read. That’s possible, says my brain.

Finished reading: A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell. Useful tips for technologists on how to work in collaboration with government. It took me 27 days to finish reading.

Listened to the short story I Was A Teenage Space Jockey by Stephen Graham Jones on the Levar Burton Reads podcast. Effecting, intense, and full of texture.

Started reading: The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. I never read this often-discussed collection of essays on computer programming management. Excited to dive in. I had it on my reading list before Frederick Brooks’ passing, but death has a way of re-arranging priorities.

Finished reading: The Number Ones by Tom Breihan. I don’t respond to top 40 music in any era, but the stories are almost always fun and interesting, and the history of popular musical taste is fascinating. Tom Beihan writes so you can hear.

Started reading: A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell. I only just started, but already I love the tone. Excited for insights.