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2020
Review: Echo Island
Review: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Review: Bolivar: American Liberator
Review: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Review: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Review: The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Review: Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Review: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Review: The Call of the Wild
Review: Into the Wild
Review: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Review: Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows
Review: Books that Changed America
Review: The American Dream Is Not Dead:
Review: Huey Long
Review: Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Review: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
2019
Review: Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Review: Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
Review: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Review: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Review: The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
Review: The Right Stuff
Review: Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Review: Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
Review: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Review: Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon (Arlo Finch, #2)
Review: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Review: Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Review: Thunderstruck
2018
Review: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
Review: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
Review: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Review: Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (Arlo Finch, #1)
Review: The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Review: Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Review: Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Review: Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
Review: Confessions of a Food Catholic
Review: William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
Review: The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
Review: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Review: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Review: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Review: Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy
Review: Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Review: Grant
Review: Hidden Figures
My Year in Books
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Hello InVision
Looking for my next great team
2017
Review: Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Review: Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Review: Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style
Review: The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
Review: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Review: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-Of-Age Crisis--And How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Review: Alexander Hamilton
Review: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Review: The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Review: The Kingdom of Speech
Review: Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Review: The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
Review: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Review: The Big Book of Irony
Review: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Review: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
Review: Animal Farm
Review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
2017 ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
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asdf: Extendable version manager
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A CLI for Amazon Athena
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Typography primer
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Twitter and the ephemeral rant
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Right tool for the job
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We’re Generation X, and we've got this.
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Side-by-side diff and Git commit message editing in vim
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AWS in plain English
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Engineering team identity
Engineering onboarding
Engineering consistency
Local exclusions in Git
How we work
Extending the command line
Suppress generated JavaScript on GitHub diffs
A tech book reader's lament
Ask me about...
Making a habit of saying thanks
On keeping up
Supercharge your static site with Netlify
2016
Review: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
Review: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Review: Humans Are Underrated: Proving Your Value in the Age of Brilliant Technology
Review: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Review: Works Well with Others: An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You
Review: Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Review: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Chris Bowler on standing
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2015
Trailing Conditionals Considered Harmful Unless Used Sparingly
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New Go book in early access
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jq is sed for JSON
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Groundhog Day Resolutions
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Remote-First Communication for Project Teams
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Gotalk
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My interview with Linux Format
2014
Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
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Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
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Aesthetics
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Only 90s web developers remember this
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Every line of code is always documented
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Everyone on the Internet
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vimtronner
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House of Cards cinegrams
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Curious George returns from (near) space
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A field guide to static apps
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Unread
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A good vimrc
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Nomad - world-class command line utilities for iOS development
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Words to avoid in tech writing
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Unix shell if statement explained
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Radio silence and the remote worker
Will trade Atom invites for pull requests
Thanks, Jim
Iterative music is my focus jam
Unsticking someone else is shipping, too
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
Reed Esau's growing list of Vim plugins for writers
The motivation for public speaking
Patches speak louder than words
Putting the emote in remote work
Three underused Ruby Array methods
Switch context with less friction using stateful tmux workspaces
Don't tell me how fast I read
Flint: lint your project for sources of contributor friction
2013
I don't know jack (yet)
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Rdio-cli does lyrics
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Bootstrapping consistency
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Speaking at Big Ruby
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LOST Island
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vim-sensible
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Shipping and the art of Getting *Thing* Done
How to get great support as a technical user
Project badges: ease or sleaze?
2012
dotfiles.github.com
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Command Line Tools for Xcode
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Directory-based environments
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Insanely fluid ASCII art
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CSSWG, save us from CSS
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Header repair
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Vim anti-patterns
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Rake - not just for Rubyists
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Move faster in Vim with relative line numbers
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Life - sketched up
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Aliases for common Vim typos
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Metadown
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Brent Simmons rediscovers the joy of web development
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New Android design site
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Responsive web design and the role of Photoshop
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Witness: a free font from Mars Hill
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Rob Pike on complaining
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Waste time productively
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A fix for the iOS orientationchange zoom bug
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Topfunky's beautifully annotated command line prompt
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The Noun Project - “sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language”
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Damien Katz on Apache and CouchDB
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Explain Responsive Web Design to your client, boss, etc.
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Move off of GoDaddy with no downtime
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Nice collection of body typefaces
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A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors
Contextual TODO list counts in your zsh prompt
Dotfiles discovery
On vendor prefixes
Oops, can't find a feed
GitHub is a fish bowl
2011
Look locally, hire remotely
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It shouldn't be this easy
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WebKit gets selector profiler
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“Why I Don't Write Web Apps”
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Dave Gamache on craftsmanship
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Visualizing tweets with D3
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Understand, then automate
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Design icebergs
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Hungry Academy
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Learn the Illustrator pen tool step-by-step
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“Twenty-two stars.”
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Vim + tmux = custom IDE
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Font design - from vision to sketch to reality
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Micro Gems: Brilliant
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Making a blogazine with NestaCMS
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Worst board evar
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CSS selector performance breakdown
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Octopress Classic is the new Kubrick
App Store change logs: the good, the bad, and the silly
2010
Enhance your site search with OpenSearch
2009
Quick tip: Use APIdock to hunt down missing methods
Use JavaScript to put GitHub info on your site
Speed up your API development, sniff your network calls on OSX with HTTPScoop
What makes a good API wrapper?
@font-face-off: Typekit vs. Font Squirrel
Rubyists: Meet Underscore.js, your new favorite JavaScript library
Sass up your WordPress themes with Compass
CSS Mixins vs. multiple classes
@font-face made easy with Font Squirrel