My main focus for my Master's in Computer Science has been on Rust, but I'm always looking to expand my skillset. That's why I'm excited to dive into the Golang Programming bundle by hashtag #Packt on Humble Bundle. This bundle offers a great opportunity to learn Golang, a powerful open-source language gaining traction in the tech industry. I'm particularly interested in the "Go Programming - Beginner to Professional" book, which seems like a perfect starting point for anyone new to Go, like myself.
Is anyone else exploring Golang?
Feel free to share your experiences or learning resources in the comments below!
After just getting a baker's dozen of technical books from #HumbleBundle that are relevant to my work, the first thing was filing them away in #Calibre
The second thing was rabbitholing into how one could set up an LLM-based system to query all these ebooks I hoarded over time? ... Too much information, too little time to make use of them, and this plan would successfully distract me from the actual needed act of learning and synthesis in my own head. 😅
@pluralistic I purchased your 18 books on Humble Bundle 🙂 I'll starting reading them in the next weeks. I also read your Information Doesn't Want To Be Free and I liked it so much, and one of my friend is your fan 🙂 I've known of you from him. Thanks a lot. #book#humblebundle#reading#CoryDoctorow
@ThomasPonnet Attack Surface is a recent fiction story from Cory Doctorow - stand alone, easy to read and very relevant for modern times. For nonfiction, Chokepoint Capitalism is engrossing.
J'ai même pas besoin de me demander à quoi jouer maintenant parce que Humble Bundle a fait un bundle pour la journée de la femme avec des jeux qui ont un protagonistes principal féminin et trois d'entre eux ont l'air d'être des jeux d'action aventure linéaires à la troisième personne.
So, if you've read my other book reviews this year, you'll be familiar with the name Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic). If not, become familiar! His work (published in books, delivered by RSS feed or Xitter, or appearing on various websites) is always entertaining and informative.
The infotaining nature of his writing is clearly evident in his latest book: The Bezzle. I backed the Kickstarter that successfully funded an audiobook version, although audiobooks aren't my thing and I read it in eBook form on my Pixel 6a. It's the second Martin Hench book, a period piece starting in the dotcom boom era, years before the first Hench book, Red Team Blues. Here we see a less established Martin (sans tour bus) stepping unwittingly into the attention of a sleazy robber baron. Events spiral wildly away from a burger-supply Ponzi scheme (no, really) as the book progresses.
The book structure is a little odd; it felt like the pelt of two-and-a-half Last Week Tonight With John Oliver episodes stitched onto the bones of a modern-day Grisham novel. Here the blend of entertaining and informative comes to bear; you know you're being educated as you read, but it's enjoyable, so it doesn't feel like a lecture. There's lessons about MLM investment traps, the hideous state of the California prison-for-profit system, unfair music royalty practises, and more.
The Bezzle was a quick and excellent read, and I'll be delving more into Doctorow's back catalogue as the year progesses, thanks to a tasty Humble Bundle deal that's still active as I write.
Uno de mis juegos favoritos, #Nioh2, está incluido en el #HumbleBundle de este mes. Si no lo tenéis y os gustan los Souls, los Diablo y los Monster Hunter ya estáis tardando, que aquí lo comparto.
Comprar a través de este enlace también nos echa una manita, pero más nos importa que nos aviséis para jugarlo juntos! 💛 https://www.humblebundle.com/?partner=detun3d
(Of course, if you're not in the US, they've already made the choice for you. Thanks terrible international intellectual property laws!)
Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree#epubs built up over the past decade.
The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten#Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".
Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.
This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.
If you're in the US, Humble Bundle has 38 of the 41 book in the Discworld series for $18. Redeems on Kobo, although it's pretty easy to use Calibre to make them work on other ereaders. Deal runs until February 1st at 2 PM EST. (7 PM UTC)
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
January 8, 2024 - Day 373 - NewPlay Bonus Review
Total NewPlays: 409
Game: Twin Mirror
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 1, 2021
Installed: Feb 16, 2023
Unplayed: 326d (10m23d
Playtime: 35m
Rating: 3 - OK
Twin Mirror is a third-person narrative adventure, and is the final game in this month's Humble Choice bundle.
The developers of this game are Don't Nod, responsible for the "Life is Strange" series, as well as "Tell Me Why" (and other games).
In Twin Mirror, you play as a reporter who has returned to his hometown for the funeral of his best friend. His best friend's young daughter believes her father was murdered, and asks you to investigate.
I already owned Twin Mirror, but hadn't played it. It hasn't quite grabbed me as strongly as I thought it would, but it's a game I'll probably poke around a bit more in.