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I'm juggling several books currently:

1. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 6th Edition. 2. TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1 2nd Edition. 3. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols 2nd Edition. 4. Engineering a Compiler 2nd Edition. 5. Flex & Bison. 6. Sed & Awk. 7. K & R. 8. The Unix Programming Environment. 9. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. 10. Linux Kernel Development. 11. The Go Programming Language. 12. Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions.

I recently discovered how much easier it is to use markdown for basic note taking, I have been just using html, which is part of the reason I took a break from reading, ha.


Nice list. I was just leafing through Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 2 by Comer. Excellent book and a good one to add to your list. A bit old now, with non-ANSI C code, but still very interesting!


I use on average maybe 8 chrome tabs at a given time and I use: Visual Studio Code, Spotify, Slack, Insomnia, and Skype. I also have Docker turned on all day.


Slack in particular is a pig with resources, and it's exacerbated if you're in multiple teams apparently.

Try having Activity Monitor running with the memory tab active and keep an eye on what's using the most, and also the overview at the bottom.


The way I rationalized it was that if I went with something like Ubuntu on a PC I would be on my own if something broke, so that's why I pathetically went with Apple again.


That's fair--MacOS is still the king of "it just works", most of the time. But hardware lasts a very long time these days, even if it sometimes seems like developers are trying their hardest to ruin that for us.


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