Somewhat similar to my answer (borrowed from children's publisher Klutz Press): "Create wonderful things, be good, have fun"

https://charlieharrington.com/create-wonderful-things-be-goo...

This is a great inspiring story and wonderful books. Thank you! Trying to find them now.

There's a book about knots by Klutz that was featured here. Comes with string(s) attached.

I don't remember too many knots, but anything that stuck was learned from that book. Amazing product: subject, content, presentation and quality construction!

My only complaint: I remember it was hard to make it fit on my bookshelf :)

I'm not a frayed knot.

Wow, so cool retro designed blog there! For those who kinda liked window system of first Mac generations :)

I think about this book ALL the time. It was way more terrifying than calming to me. But still absolutely love it / haunted by it.

Love this book. I did a short interview with the author Brian Dear about his writing tools + process a while back. Perhaps my favorite anecdote is that he started working on this book in 1985, using MSDOS and later a NeXT cube for his notes. The authorial process truly experienced the full gamut of personal storage mediums over the years.

https://writeswith.com/interviews/brian-dear/

I discovered (and thoroughly enjoyed reading) the book thanks to that interview!

Thank You So Much :)

I wrote a short story about AR + "Golden Compass"-style daemons a few years ago. Feels like we're inching closer:

https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/the-correctives/

My friend Oz has a few resources here that many have found helpful (me included!)

* https://teachyourselfcs.com - book list and open course suggestions

* https://csprimer.com - Oz's own curriculum for CS fundamentals

The memories! I once wrote a short story once about the “other” last Blockbuster - a place where your VHS videos might just let you truly relive your past, at some great cost, of course. Anyway, I love when weird stuff like this comes to dwell on GitHub.

Here’s the story

https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/the-other-last-blo...

That was a fun read. Thanks for sharing!

It’s more CS education and learning focused, but my friend Oz and I have been doing the CS Primer Show for the last year. Had a brief hiatus for more family time, but we’ll be back in August with more chats and whatnot about Bell Labs and other computer science fun.

https://show.csprimer.com

Also YouTube version: https://youtube.com/@cs_primer

Hey, thanks for sharing this, I'm really enjoying it.

Especially the one about packet loss, it was really interesting to hear the way a software engineer explains network protocols.

I hope you continue.

Discovering Piet is a special moment of awe and confusion and wonder. Mine was captured in this chat with my friend Oz in our Computer Science podcast “The CS Primer Show”: https://show.csprimer.com/episodes/e2-dont-let-a-gpt-have-al...

Sucker for any news about the voyage of the Golden Record (almost but not quite a CS Lewis title)! For fun, I wrote a short story two years ago about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/

Last year I wrote a weird short story about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/