David Beazley on Nostr: My ruthless purge of programming books continues. Changing the criteria from "might I ...
My ruthless purge of programming books continues. Changing the criteria from "might I need to read this someday?" to "might I read this for fun?" definitely cuts things down a lot.
I'm not quite at the level of "would my kids want to inherit this?" level of filtering, but if I squint, I can see that from here.
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