Book 68 of 2022

Just finished Hello, World! Opinion columns from the Daily Princetonian by Brian Kernighan. Obviously I'm more familiar with his writings on the C programming language - his classic textbook on it was a constant companion during my undergraduate computer science days! And he's written other computing books. But this is a collection of his essays for the Princeton University student newspaper. And it's a delightfully varied mix of academia, computer science, and just life and stuff. Thoroughly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in any of these topics, or like me multiple of them. A very tiny number of the essays are perhaps too specific to Princeton student life to be very accessible for a wider audience. But generally they are a joy.

Current reading

Slightly Foxed issue Winter 2020 (yes I have a bit of a backlog) and Kim Newman’s short book about Hammer’s Quatermass and the Pit movie.