Exhaustive list of books to read

Over the last year I’ve been compiling a list of books that my colleagues and friends have either, bought, read or recommended. The checkboxes represent that I either own it, have skimmed it or found it online. Why not pick one of them up while you have the time? (As of writing this we are still in the early days of COVID-19 lockdown)

I have defined a top 5 list:

1. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable and Maintainable Systems
2. Software Engineering at Google
3. Database Internals
4. A Philosophy of Software Design
5. An Elegant Puzzle - Systems of Engineering Management

I'm back

No idea how long this will continue for but since we are all working from home during this COVID-19 epidemic. I thought I might as well try to add some content on here.

I started by registering the mickey.sh domain name, I’m a developer after all 👨‍💻. Got it discounted on Namecheap with the use of the Honey Chrome extension.

Decided to stick with the Jekyll static site generator and the Lanyon theme for now. I spent quite a while updating the configuration but it finally works! Although I am currently considering using Hugo and hosting it via Netlify.

Added a few words about myself on my about page.

(image by MarkusM)

Impossible list

Inspired by Thomas Frank’s impossible list which in turn was inspired by Joel Runyon the creator of the IMPOSSIBLE list and defined the difference between it and a bucket list

I will add certain things retroactively as a reminder of my achievements. They will serve as a launch point for my new goals and achievements

Last 5 Completed Goals

Fitness/Health Goals

• Run a 5K

• Cycle 100km in a day

Learn to cruise on a skateboard (September 2015)

Visit the US (March 2016) - New York, trip with Yoan and Ivan

Visit France (April 2017) - Grenoble, France (Florent’s bday) - Visit Paris (May 2017) Visit Sweden (September 2017) - Stockholm, Sweden Visit Asia (June 2017) - Bali, Indonesia

Go to a Drake concert (March 2017) Go to festival (August 2017) - WeWork Summer Camp

Go to a wedding (March 2018) Move to London (August 2018)

Automated my Quora answer

Answer can be found here.

Disclaimer I generally think this is not advisable as this just reduces the quality of what has the potential to be a very good learning resource.

Code I used is simple. It uses the BeautifulSoup Python library to extract all the headings from the article and generate markdown links. Time was of the essence as there is a relationship between the length of your answer and the time to answer.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

url= 'https://colorlib.com/wp/free-css3-frameworks/'
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read(), "html.parser")

css_frameworks = soup.findAll("h2")

for framework in css_frameworks:

    try:
        name = framework.a.text
        url = framework.a.get('href')
        print('[{}]({})'.format(name, url))
    except:
        pass