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✨ New Arrivals

🌐 Web Frameworks & Libraries

💻 Programming Languages

REST gRPC in 33 Languages
A reference
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The PERL Programming Language
The Practical Extraction and Reporting Language in 2025
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Python for Those Who Cannot Even
The Python book for developers who miss curly braces. Learn real Python while complaining about whitespace. 15 chapters of education, commiseration, and reluctant acceptance. For programmers who know better but have no choice.
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The Io Programming Language
A guide for Io ( https://iolanguage.org/ )
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Smalltalk about Smalltalk
A discussion
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Getting a Little Rusty
Need a little Rust? Here's Some(value).
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Modern Go
The Go Programming Language book was written in 2015. This book attemps to fill in knowledge gaps since then.
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Let Erlang Crash
Erlang was built to never die. Ironically, the secret is letting everything crash. This book embraces the chaos, explores the BEAM, and makes fault-tolerant programming genuinely fun.
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Developing Rust TUI Applications
Terminal User Interface apps work great in Rust! Written by Claude Code Sonnet 4.5.
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Fortran While There s Still Time
A Guide to Fortran in 2025 with a focus on maintaining legacy codebases, by Claude Code Opus 4.1
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Array of Sunshine
Claude Code's idea of Computer Science for kids
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Monads
Monads. By Claude Code Sonnet 4.5.
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Programming Crystal
The Crystal Programming Language, by Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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The Ballerina Programming Language
By Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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The Big Book of Programming Languages
A survey of the various languages in use in 2025, by Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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Learning Java with NetBeans
A book by Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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Writing CLI Apps with Dart
Writing CLI Apps with the Dart Programming Language, a book by Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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Learn Programming with Smalltalk
By Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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COBOL Before It s Too Late
The 2025 Guide to COBOL, by Opus 4.1
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Start at the End Logic Programming for the Imperatively Damaged
Start at the End: Logic Programming for the Imperatively Damaged by Claude Code Opus 4.1
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Swiftly Learning Swift
Learning the Swift Programming Language, swiftly. For coders coming from other languages. By Opus 4.1.
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The PHP Programming Language
The PHP Programming Language, a book by Claude Code Opus 4.1
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Q in the Wild
kdb+/q is powerful but lives in a silo. This book tears down the walls — integrating Q with Rust, Python, and R, finding the IDE plugins that actually work, and connecting kdb+/q to web frameworks and mainstream tooling. For the Q developer who refuses to be an island.
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Backend Rust
Rust on the server
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🛠️ Editors & Tooling

⚙️ Systems & Computer Science

Computers
A book about computer science, written by Claude Code Opus 4.1
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Vulkan Speaking Directly to Your GPU
Do you speak Vulkan?
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PostgreSQL DB in 2025
Claude Code Opus 4.1 wrote this guide for Postgres.
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macOS and Unix
All about Unix features in your Mac
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Networking Protocols
Comprehensive guide to networking protocols covering TCP/IP stack, HTTP evolution (1.0 through HTTP/3), WebSockets, QUIC, UDP vs TCP, DNS resolution, TLS/SSL handshakes, and modern protocol design. Includes packet flow diagrams, performance characteristics, and real-world use cases.
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Database Internals
Ever wondered what happens when you hit COMMIT? Journey into the storage engines, B-trees, WAL logs, and MVCC magic powering modern databases. From disk I/O to query optimization, learn how databases turn SQL into bits. Written by Opus 4.5 for developers who want to understand why their queries are slow.
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Different Ways to Count
Binary, Hexadecimal, Octal -- Claude Code sorts it out for us with Sonnet 4.5
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The LAMP Stack
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP: LAMP
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Regular Expressions
A book about Regular Expressions by Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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MySQL and You
A book by Claude Code Opus 4.1
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linear algebra
There is hardly any theory which is more elementary than linear algebra, in spite of the fact that generations of professors and textbook writers have obscured its simplicity by preposterous calculations with matrices. —Jean Dieudonne
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The Zero Build Movement
How far can you go without a build system?
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The Big Book of Compression Algorithms
Everything compresses differently. A survey of the major algorithms — Huffman to Zstandard, lossless to lossy, zip files to video codecs — covering mechanics, tradeoffs, and ideal contexts. Closes with a bonus section on why LLMs are, at their core, just really expensive lossy compressors.
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Distributed Systems for the Rest of Us
CAP theorem, eventual consistency, replication, and fault tolerance — explained for engineers who aren't at Google scale but need to think like they are. No hand-waving, no oversimplification. Just the mental models that make distributed systems decisions less terrifying.
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Understanding CORS
A no-nonsense guide to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing — the web security mechanism everyone encounters and few truly understand. Covers preflight requests, headers, credentials, and how to configure CORS correctly in any stack.
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Event-Driven Architecture
A deep dive into event-driven architecture patterns, followed by a thorough comparison of event brokers and streaming platforms.
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Impossibility Theorems
A deep dive into the fundamental limits of computation, logic, and systems — Gödel, Turing, Arrow, CAP, and beyond.
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HTTP Alternatives for APIs
Survey of API communication protocols beyond HTTP — gRPC, MQTT, AMQP, ZeroMQ, Cap'n Proto RPC, and more.
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Postgres is Enough
A love letter to PostgreSQL — exploring how far you can push it as a relational DB, document store, and more.
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High Performance Computing in 2026
HPC for the modern era — GPU computing, CUDA vs ROCm vs Metal, MPI, OpenMP, vectorization, and the intersection of scientific computing with modern hardware.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography
A developer's guide to cryptography in the post-quantum era — covering lattice-based algorithms, NIST standards, and migration strategies.
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🤖 AI & LLMs

🧠 Career & Philosophy

Soft Skills the Hard Way
A novel written by Claude Code about getting into the corporate world of software engineering
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The Book We All Need Right Now
By Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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The Vibe Coder s Guide to Product Management
What you need to know about Product Management when Vibe Coding
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You Are Not Your Stack
Your language doesn't define you. Your framework won't save you. Your stack will be obsolete before you retire. This book is about what remains when you strip all of that away — and how to build a career and identity that survives every technology shift that's coming.
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How to get through a day
Ever have trouble getting through your day? This book by Sonnet 4.5 may help.
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Rebuilding Technology
What if technology went away? How would we rebuild it?
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Why We Write Software
By Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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The Software Development Life Cycle
The SDLC By Claude Code Sonnet 4.5
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Decisions
Making decisions without all the information
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Knowledge Management
A rigorous guide to knowledge theory and management — from epistemological foundations through organizational knowledge systems, personal knowledge management, and the tools and practices that make knowledge actionable.
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Systems Thinking
Systems thinking predates writing itself — humans have always reasoned about wholes, not just parts.
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Asking the Right Questions
A practical guide to question-driven thinking — how to find the questions worth asking, why most people ask the wrong ones, and how better questions lead to better decisions and outcomes.
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🎲 Special Topics

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