I find great delight in expressing my thoughts through writing.
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. All work to provide this list is done by the NYT team. But since the original website is behind a paywall, I extracted and made it available down below. My Brilliant Friend The Warmth of Other Suns Wolf Hall The Known World The Corrections 2666 The Underground Railroad Austerlitz Never Let Me Go Gilead The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Year of Magical Thinking The Road Outline Pachinko The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Sellout Lincoln in the Bardo Say Nothing Erasure Evicted Behind the Beautiful Forevers Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The Overstory Random Family Atonement Americanah Cloud Atlas The Last Samurai Sing, Unburied, Sing White Teeth The Line of Beauty Salvage the Bones Citizen Fun Home Between the World and Me The Years The Savage Detectives A Visit From the Goon Squad H Is for Hawk Small Things Like These A Brief History of Seven Killings Postwar The Fifth Season The Argonauts The Goldfinch A Mercy Persepolis The Vegetarian Trust Life After Life Train Dreams Runaway Tenth of December The Looming Tower The Flamethrowers Nickel and Dimed Stay True Middlesex Heavy Demon Copperhead 10:04 Veronica The Great Believers The Plot Against America We the Animals Far From the Tree The Friend The New Jim Crow All Aunt Hagar’s Children The Copenhagen Trilogy Secondhand Time The Passage of Power Olive Kitteridge Exit West Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow An American Marriage Septology A Manual for Cleaning Women The Story of the Lost Child Pulphead Hurricane Season When We Cease to Understand the World The Emperor of All Maladies Pastoralia Frederick Douglass Detransition, Baby The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis The Return The Sympathizer The Human Stain The Days of Abandonment Station Eleven On Beauty Bring Up the Bodies Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Men We Reaped Bel Canto How to Be Both Tree of Smoke
the nature of software software delivers the most important product of our time, information defining software changes introduces errors software application domains system software service other programs process complex tasks compilers and editors usually get determinate data OSs and networking software usually get unstructured data application software stand alone programs solves a business problem process business and technical data engineering/scientific software data science programs analyzing numbers and graphs used in automotive stress testing, astronomy, volcano-logy used in generic analysis and meteorology embedded software resides other programs used in systems to control functions and features for user and system itself doing both simple and complex tasks product-line software composed of reusable parts....
This is my summerization from the famous book Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach from Roger S. Pressman and Bruce R. Maxim. This is a fairly huge book and reading through all of it can be time consuming, therefore I decided to type down my take from the book and publish it for those who don’t want to read the whole book but still are interested in what’s inside of it....
You might be a perfectionist. But be careful despite the glorious look of this attribute you probably want to seek for treatments rather honoring it. So now we have a few questions to begin with Am I perfectionist? How is this affecting my life? And how to stop being one? so I’m going to answer these question in rest of this blog. Also keep in mind, having high standards and seeking for greatness is different from obsession for perfection....
It’s been a long time I haven’t written anything on this blog. Because of some psychological difficulties, I was forced to start medication which decreased my mental ability to function. I’m no better right now, but thought it’s necessary to put myself together and write these few words about changes. So, this website’s TLD is already changed but the old domain is still accessible so you can see this post. But I’m not going to revenue the old domain and it will eventually stop working....
If the YouTube algorithm worked correctly only once, that’s when it suggested me a video from Core Dumped channel when I was searching about weak, soft and strong references in Java. Apparently this is a new channel with only 5 videos at the time of writing this blog, explaining memory management concepts with a little bit of focus on Rust. Despite having prior studies about memory management, watching these videos offering proper visualization and clear explanation taught me one or two points....
Let’s talk about Personal Task Management(PTM). It’s always being said one tool can’t work best for everyone and people should choose their instruments themselves. There is not a single tool suitable for everything and everyone, and it’s always part of the work to find the right tool. And for the first time ever, finally I know how to get things done and seeing my tasks list is actually shrinking. Here I’m going to write about my approach which might work, or at least inspire you too....
Last year I bought a Google Pixel 7a and the most important reason for this choice was because I’ve heard Google phones are well compatible with custom ROMs. I wanted to continue my journey and escape from invisible cage that wicked proprietary software was holding me inside, this time completely. Get free from Google (software at least) and embrace free software services, and LineageOS was the phone operating system to go with....
My mere understanding of this phenomenon is since photons have no mass, gravity doesn’t affect light directly. Rather changes light’s traveling path. Light travels along geodesics and goes through the closest path between two points, which is (approximately) a straight line. But due to gravity of massive objects the space-time in which light travels in is curved. Therefore photons must travel through the curve and it seems light is bent by gravity because the geodesics are now manipulated....
Content in this post are mostly personal opinions and preferences, and are not based on facts or deep researches. But they are fine choices and still put posts in this blog. So I don’t use AI to form this place. It doesn’t mean I’m not using any writing helper to create better posts but none of them come close to whatever an AI is capable of to. Indeed, if you read texts careful enough you’ll notice enormous mistakes and phrases with critical need for a review :)...
Intro Using command line based applications is a choice, and not a normal one but the best choice (anytime possible). That means I use CLI (and TUI) programs as much as possible and in this article I also explain why you should do the same. What is a CLI app why are they better than GUI apps and why they’re real gems among fake jewels. And finally show you some of my favorite CLI programs....
Part 1 also exists as an independent post. But today I decided to share some notes as continue and explore how to overcome privacy nihilism. One thing to remember is philosophical matters usually doesn’t reach to a single solid answer but the person dealing with them only steps into the journey of healing himself/herself so eventually escape nihilism. Now, don’t say privacy is dead because it’s not. In fact, we are winning the privacy war....
I came through the term privacy nihilism some time ago, and I was confused how to make connection between these two words and also was amazed (again) that a philosophical word from 18th is being used along a (these days mostly) digital issue. So let’s see what does privacy nihilism mean and probably how to help escape it. What is it? Nihilism If your not aware of nihilism, it’s something you carry it around all of your life....
This blog is not the only place where I write English, in fact in Mastodon I post in English and most of the time I participate in group chats talking in English. And it might seem unreasonable for someone whose mother tongue isn’t English. It seems so difficult to write in second language. Read in second language. Think in second language. And understand a second language. Because it is; it’s hard and unproductive....
I was never good at math. It’s a fact in my life and I can’t remember a single time I got the highest score in a math quiz or exam in class. It doesn’t mean I was bad at math though, in fact unlike other lessons I used to study math regularly, and it helped me to have an insight of what math was about; Even if you don’t commit your life to something, after doing it for 12 years you’ll eventually get idea of what’s it about....
Intro In times of using arrays, where inserting or deleting elements in the middle often requires shifting subsequent elements, when lists grow in size this tasks exponentially become expensive. And traversing over these huge lists make CPUs scream, top proves. But no worries, it’s also possible to traverse from end of the list to the very first node, thus accessing nodes placed in end parts of the list becomes much cheaper....
Intro Telegram is not just a messenger or even a social media site; it is more like a massive bookmark manager where every group, channel or personal chat you have with fellows is just a bookmark on a special topic. Sometimes you’re the audience for these bookmarks, and sometimes you’re the one in charge. There is also another type of accounts/bookmarks on Telegram, which you can either create or use. Called telegram Bots....
This post is not creative writing, I’m only translating content from Persian, if you know Persian please consider reading the original post. While performing a meeting in a physical space has its own benefits, sometimes we have no choice but to run the conference online. We should try to avoid falling blindly into the limitations of real-world conferences and reduce issues at online gatherings. The following is a method for holding conferences like Software Freedom Day....