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The Saint of Bright DoorsBook

by Vajra Chandrasekera, 2023

Who uses, recommends or left The Saint of Bright Doors, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Canadian software developer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications, formerly of Sun, Google and AWS; writes the long-running blog ongoing.
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It’s as colorful as anything I’ve read in years. I really enjoyed that

Batch review post 'Recent Sci-Fi'. He states near the top that he no longer puts Amazon commission links in his book posts: “Used to be I’d put Amazon links in when I mentioned books, and route a few commission bucks into my Amazon account. No longer.”

2023-12-10·tbray.org ↗

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.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

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 shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.