Re: [dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-07-02 Thread v4hn
One book in that domain I enjoyed quite a bit is Beautiful Code - O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596510046.do It's not really about suckless software (usually svn, xml, and js are not considered suckless...), but it illustrates quite nicely many thought processes involved with

Re: [dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-07-01 Thread Kart Etlinger
For history, and how people used to treat computers I would suggest Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and how that approach to computing was slowly getting lost. On 06/29/2018 11:42 AM, Jens Staal wrote: > Dear all, > > Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers,

Re: [dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-07-01 Thread Patrick Bucher
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:42:36AM +0200, Jens Staal wrote: > Dear all, > > Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers, but > books might also work) in alignment with the "suckless philosophy" (or > "minimalism"). Paul Graham: Taste for Makers

Re: [dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-06-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:42:36 +0200 Jens Staal wrote: Dear Jens, > Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers, but > books might also work) in alignment with the "suckless > philosophy" (or "minimalism"). It does not have to be specifically > programming, it could also be

Re: [dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-06-29 Thread Cyber
> Dear all, > > Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers, but books > might also work) in alignment with the "suckless philosophy" (or > "minimalism"). > It does not have to be specifically programming, it could also be engineering > and design in general (art might be a

Re: [dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-06-29 Thread Aeliton G. Silva
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 11:42 +0200, Jens Staal wrote: > Dear all, > > Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers, but > books > might also work) in alignment with the "suckless philosophy" (or > "minimalism"). > It does not have to be specifically programming, it could also

[dev] (academic) reading suggestions associated to the minimalist/suckless design philosophy?

2018-06-29 Thread Jens Staal
Dear all, Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers, but books might also work) in alignment with the "suckless philosophy" (or "minimalism"). It does not have to be specifically programming, it could also be engineering and design in general (art might be a stretch, but