Confessions of a Necromancer by Pieter Hintjens
I knew of Hintjens’s work (Xitami, ZeroMQ, etc) but not much more of him. The book popped up in a Slack I am a member of while discussing Torvalds’s decision to take a step back and work on himself.
Hintjens writes a technical memoir. At least that is the first part of the book. And because he writes stuff about the era of computing I grew up into, I like it. He reminded me of technologies, tricks and methods I had long forgotten. I even learned new old stuff that I had never come across.
And the there is the second part of the book. The most important and most interesting one. What can I say about it? Not much I am afraid. I can only declare my respect for his effort to document the process and his voyage towards the end. I envy his clarity, even though I cannot even begin to imagine the cost for it to be maintained during the cancer treatment process.
Highly touching.
PS: I am trying to see whether using Goodreads to write my thoughts on books I read is a thing that I like.
Managing organized complexity 