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Tim Bray

Canadian software developer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications, formerly of Sun, Google and AWS; writes the long-running blog ongoing.

8 books on the record · 1 Dec 2011 – 11 Dec 2023

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

mixed on it

Words Without Music by Philip Glass

Any Glass fan is going to want to read this, I think. But it’s not problem-free.

on tbray.org · 11 Dec 2023

recommends it

System Collapse by Martha Wells

System Collapse and if you’re going to read it, which I recommend, it’s

on tbray.org · 10 Dec 2023

mixed on it

Witch King by Martha Wells

Witch King is really well-crafted. The combat scenes are explosive.

on tbray.org · 10 Dec 2023

liked it

Rule 34 by Charles Stross

Anyhow, I really like this one.

on tbray.org · 1 Dec 2011

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.