Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Jul 7, 2017
My #hackerspace is starting a #hacker #BookClub, and I'd welcome suggestions to add to our to-read list. We'll be doing both fiction and non-fiction works that have connections to hacker culture, identity, history, etc.
Show threadMatt Cropp 🌲🌲Jul 7, 2017
The current list drawn from our membership:
-The Cathedral and The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
-Snowcrash
-Neuromancer
-A Hacker Manifesto
-Gamer Theory
-Atlas Shrugged
-My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
-Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
-Spook Country
-The Diamond Age
-Cryptonomicon
-Ready Player One
Show threadbrennenJul 7, 2017

@mattcropp _the unix programming environment_; _the shockwave rider_; _the hacker crackdown_

nonfic-wise, maybe something on/by grace hopper, margaret hamilton. it's hard not to notice how dude-centric the theoretical hacker prose canon is, and i wish i had better ideas for countering that.

i really appreciated this talk at the open hardware summit last fall: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

- good companion piece for a lot of this.

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@mattcropp (also, tbh, i wouldn't encourage anyone to read rand in a vulnerable state of mind, and judging by how badly ESR himself has aged, i'm not all that keen to revisit the cathedral & the bazaar in a modern context, though it was important to a major cultural moment with all sorts of lasting implications...

i guess i'm just pulling for a hacker culture that's a living thing and can actually shed some of its more toxic reference points. there are plenty.)

Jul 7, 2017 at 4:14pmWeb