Bryan Cantrill
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company; creator of DTrace at Sun Microsystems and a long-time systems-software blogger.
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing's literary foundation – that it should be considered our Odyssey.
on bcantrill.dtrace.org · 10 Feb 2019
Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff
not only did I buy the canonical reference (The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols and community contributors), I also bought an O'Reilly book with a bit more narrative (Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff).
on bcantrill.dtrace.org · 18 Sep 2018
The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols and community contributors
If you were as I was and are contemplating diving into Rust, a couple of pieces of advice, for whatever they're worth: I would recommend getting both The Rust Programming Language and Programming Rust. They are each excellent in their own right, and different enough to merit owning both.
on bcantrill.dtrace.org · 18 Sep 2018
Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg
And amazingly enough, if you insist on looking at the world through a bucket of shit, the world starts to look an awful lot like a bucket of shit: by the end of the book, Rosenberg has left the lay reader with the sense that we are careering towards some sort of software heat-death, after which meetings-about-meetings and stickies-on-whiteboards will prevent all future progress.
on bcantrill.dtrace.org · 11 Nov 2007
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