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Jennifer is an early-career cloud engineer. We talk about how she got into software development without having experience before university, and what that meant about picking up the unspoken cultural norms. We also talk about the dark academic aesthetic and how she improves at all of this.

• “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov
• Karnaugh Maps
• “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson
• “No Return,” a talk by Avdi Grimm
• “Mindstorms” by Seymour Papert
• Correction: Minsky was a student of Piaget with Papert, not a student of Papert.
• Jessica Kerr: the Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
• Haskell Programming from First Principles, the big purple Haskell book
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• “Coder to Developer” by Mike Gunderloy
• Dark Academia aesthetic
• The Burning Monk (on AWS)
• “Javascript: The Good Parts” by Crockford
• “Anything by Sandi Metz” POODR 99 Bottles
• Covid: Can I Do It?
• Corporate Confidential
• Robert Tarjan / Tarjan the Mad God
• Girl Genius webcomic
• The “We Happy Few” Kickstarter