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   RDN (rdnielsen@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:44:21 JST RDN

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs - Another recommendation for The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.

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     john fink ok!! :goat: (adr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:46:37 JST john fink ok!! :goat:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Computer Lib is probably the classic choice here, although I've not read it.

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     dan 💾 (billgoats@bitbang.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:54:43 JST dan 💾

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Inside the Personal Computer — A Pop-up Guide. It's very cute and really nicely done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhHWF67--is

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     nuxi (nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 02:12:10 JST nuxi

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Digital Deli is one that doesn't get much love, for some reason. A bunch of contemporary essays, comics, and listicles about the PC revolution by the people involved. Available online here: https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/

     In the same vein, Best of Creative Computing. It's astonishing (and depressing) to realize how many of today's issues were forseen, with little to no progress made. They also happen to be available online: https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/
     (increment cc1 for additional volumes)

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     Steve (kladni@newsie.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 09:03:07 JST Steve

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     This is much earlier than the 70s but might be something you'd dig:
     "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society" by Norbert Wiener. First published in 1950, but I found it really fascinating and surprisingly relevant still.

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     Steve (kladni@newsie.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 09:14:17 JST Steve

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     It's a classic book, probably still available. I got it in recent memory on Amazon but I'm sure it's out there as a free ebook by now.

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     jleedev@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 05:37:48 JST jleedev

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs "A FORTRAN Coloring Book" (1978) is beautiful and weird.