Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

A little story based on a dream last night.

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We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.

Mia drove. I was still sweating out nicotine when we passed the first hand-painted sign: “NO DRONES. NO CLOUD. NO EXPLAINING.”
We were looking for machines, but not those machines.

@NanoRaptor Humility is a superpower.

Not saying this in the rainbows-and-unicorns humanistic sense, but in a very practical one.

If you recognize that you don’t know everything and approach life as such, you:

1. Get along with people better.
2. Don’t become stuck in your ways.
3. Learn new and better ways to approach even things you’re good at.
4. Don’t feel nearly as bad when you realize you’ve been doing something wrong.

Being humble isn’t just nice, it’s _liberating_.

This project was a dream to work on! To coincide with the launch of the new V&A East, the V&A approached me to consolidate and redesign their icon library to echo their new brand typeface Spiller. The result was a library of 217 new icons, with all the size versions of each bringing the total to 606.

I've yet to visit the V&A East (only opened last weekend!) to get photos of the icons being used 'in the field' but I couldn't wait any longer to start talking about it. 🤗

https://hicks.design/work/victoria-and-albert-museum-icon-system