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8 posts published by Mike Taylor during April 2025| The Reinvigorated Programmer
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8 posts published by Mike Taylor during April 2025| The Reinvigorated Programmer
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In an excellent post on writing secure maintainable C code, curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg writes: Smaller functions are easier to read and understand than longer ones, thus preferable. And heR…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
[See also previous and subsequent posts in this series.] I have got far, far out of date with this blogging thread: I’ve read 49 books that I’ve yet to write about here, so I’ve f…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
The House at the End of the World — Dean Koontz I think I had in my mind that Dean Koontz was a golden-age sci-fi author, when he is of course a prolific and still active author in many genre…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
I just typed out the following 1600-character question to our devops team, involving GitHub actions, automatic CI builds to a custom NPM repository, and a mysterious desynchronization. (Don’t…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
I don’t watch a lot of films — they mostly don’t fit into my fairly full schedule — but I do like to when I can. Fiona and I decided to spend the Good Friday bank holiday indolently, so…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
I read John Le Carré’s classic spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a few months ago, and found it difficult but brilliant. (The same can be said of most of his books). Back in 1979, the BB…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
[Previously: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4] One Hundred and Forty Characters in Search of an Argument — Andrew Rilstone Rilstone is one of my very favourite writers — his blog is packe…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
[Previously: part 1, part 2, part 3] Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie This one has quite a well-known twist, but happily I’d completely forgotten about it, so it wasn̵…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
Peter Pan and Wendy — J. M. Barrie I highly recommend this to anyone. Written in 1911, it’s now comfortably in the public domain, and you can pick up a free copy at Project Gutenberg. L…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
It occurred to me recently that, since my Kindle lists books in the order of how recently I’ve had them open, the first few pages of its index are a useful reverse-chronological order record …| The Reinvigorated Programmer
[See also previous and subsequent posts in this series.] CAREER OF EVIL — ROBERT GALBRAITH As we all now know, Robert Galbraith is the detective-novel pseudonym of J. K. Rowling. I read Caree…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
High Society — Ben Elton Elton doing what he does best, colliding a cast of somewhat stereotypical characters (the corrupt politician, the drugged-out singing star, the teenage runaway) and w…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
As noted recently, I’m taking advantage of my Kindle’s reverse-chronological book list to keep track of what I’ve been reading, and blogging a few thoughts about the books. Here&#…| The Reinvigorated Programmer
