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Tradecraft : the Stuff They Don’t Teach You at School
Spies, coders, journalists—they all rely on intuition, improvisation, and experience. It’s tradecraft.
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My Cup of Tea : A Reflection on Craft
Every move the bar man man makes while preparing my tea is perfectly measured, it’s like watching a Tai-Chi master.
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At the Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Software Engineering
The ins- and outs of open hardware; the power and perils of building your products on top of FOSS-stacks; the dos and don’ts with design patenting, and so much more.
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Culture Encoded : Ellen Ullman’s Life in the Machine
Close to the Machine : Technophilia and its discontents by Ellen Ullman chronicles the dawn of the Internet from the point of view of a freelance programmer. I loved it intensely.