A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books

1 · Alan Storm · Aug. 22, 2021, 3:20 a.m.
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. This is the first post in the series. It’s “things must leave the house” season, and this week I came to the two boxes labeled “old tech books”. Some books — The Important™ ones — get an exulted place on my book shelves. Other books, when they prove no longer useful, make their way out of the house quickly. These “old tech books” fell somewhere in between — the energy they held from certain periods of my...