big ‘ol book all about live coding – the history and how to do it

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A groundbreaking new guided guitar practice course, teaching the essential skills every serious guitar player must have, regardless of style.

A free, interactive electronics book that combines the math, the physics, and the engineering intuition.

…presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

What are these risks? Can we predict their occurrence? What tools and methods are used? How did past societies face them? Are they inevitable? Should we plan and prepare?

While many disciplines have explored these questions through thousands of scholar papers, and many books have been published, none pursued a transdisciplinary approach. This is why we’ve coined a neologism – collapsology – which refers to the field of research in the scientific community that studies existential risks, including civilisational collapse, in order to invite scholars, academic and independent experts, and the public alike, to join together and engage in a meaningful conversation on these urgent and vital questions.

Introductory textbook on type theory

The Literature-Map is part of Gnod, the Global Network of Discovery.It is based on Gnooks, Gnod’s literature recommendation system. The more people like an author and another author, the closer together these two authors will move on the Literature-Map.

I have this long running conjecture that used book stores are superior to commercial book outlets (including Amazon) for discovering books. One of the reasons for this I think has less to do with a skewed explore/exploit strategy, and more to do with the way exploratory suggestions are sourced. I think financial pressure skews exploratory search suggestions towards oversampling newer books rather than older adjacent books. I get that though; oversampling newer books is a simple way to help combat the rich getting richer trap. The problem is that I’m biased against new books; I think they’re mostly noise.

carla bergman and Nick Montgomery Joyful Militancy Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times 2017

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a media publishing collective dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture that is informed by anarchistic ideals.

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles down to JavaScript. The syntax is inspired by Ruby and Python, and implements many features from those two languages. This book is designed to help you learn CoffeeScript, understand best practices and start building awesome client side applications. The book is little, only five chapters, but that’s rather apt as CoffeeScript is a little language too.

Mediocre programmers know they’re not great programmers (yet). Mediocre programmers see the distance between where they are and the greatness they want in their programming careers. They see the work that goes into a being great programmers and believe that if they do the work they too will become great programmers.