These are my top choices for Clojure books: 1. Joy of Clojure 2. Programming Clojure 3e 3. Clojure Applied 4. Elements of Clojure And as for general software books: 1. SICP 2. CTMCP 3. HTDP 4. DDIA 5. DDD 6. CLRS (algos) 7. Hacker's Delight 8. Dinosaur (operating systems) 9. Dragon (compilers)

Cool, I'll take a look at them

Designing Data Intensive Applications is a good one

I was gonna say the same DDIA is the best IT book I've read in years

it looks free? Is that real?

It is

uhm..

> Business roadmap > > The health of Sourcehut as a business is also my responsibility. Providing the hosted service is not free, and getting myself paid enough to keep food on the table is important for the development and health of the project as a whole. This basically involves lots of spreadsheets, tracking the income and expenses of the business, and making projections for the future. The monitoring system maintained by the operations work is also put to use for BI (business intelligence) reporting and monitoring. > > I basically maintain three projections: pessimistic, realistic, and optimistic. A rough approximation of how these are done is: pessimistic projections assume that no one signs up for new subscriptions, monthly subscriptions continue paying out, and yearly subscriptions don’t. Realistic projections amortize yearly subscriptions over a year, assume no one cancels, but also assumes no growth. Optimistic projections expect the current rates of growth to continue. Most of our long-term planning is based on the pessimistic projections. These models are going to be updated soon as we start to get data on how many users cancel their subscription when the first yearly renewals come up this month. > > This work also involves dealing with taxes, regulatory compliance, making sure contractors are paid on time, and so on. Boring stuff, but it eats up a lot of time. Additionally, marketing falls under this umbrella, which mainly takes the form of posts on this blog and showing up when people talk about us online to answer questions. I’ve tried asking happy users to blog about their experiences, but most people don’t have a blog or are shy about writing, so there’s some yak shaving to be done first. > > The main business goal at first was profitability, which has been achieved. Additional goals are to generate a revenue stream which can continue to support investment in new hardware, sponsoring free accounts for less fortunate users, marketing and outreach efforts, and sponsoring free software developers to work on self-directed projects. All of these goals are proceeding nicely.

I'm not paying right now at least