Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab; co-author of Observability Engineering.
loved
But I was hooked within ten pages, my mind racing ahead with even more evidence than she marshals in this lively book.
A 'Quarantine Reading Queue' post recommending a book to help make sense of the 'Tiger King' phenomenon; the original charity.wtf blog has since migrated to Substack and this old WordPress post is quoted from the Wayback Machine (category page snapshot points to it). (undated page)
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:
Hardware, services4 years
Software5 years
Podcasts, courses, other8 years
Books25 years
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