Raised by Books

An ode to software development books

This week I was sorting out my new bookshelf in my office and decided that a few of my old programming books no longer deserved space on the shelf.

Ajay @ajaykarwal

Sorting through my bookshelf and came to a realisation that programming books are pretty much useless these days. I don’t think I’ve ever opened any of these books to find an actual answer when I needed it. Stack Overflow and YouTube destroyed books.

This got me thinking about what used to happen to old books once they became irrelevant and how they helped us with our posture. I wrote about it on my blog.

https://ajaykarwal.com/raised-by-books/

Until next time.

Ajay 📚

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What I’ve been reading

Nokia changes iconic logo to signal strategy shift

The company says that “nowadays we are a business technology company” and after 60 years has updated its branding to break the association to just smartphones.

Unpacking the Trickiest Concepts in JavaScript

This article by Daniel Bemsen Akosu breaks down some of the trickiest JavaScript concepts including hoisting, currying and closures. It’s worth a bookmark.

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