Theme
Foundations
First-principles bricks for understanding computers and software, laid one on another.
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Do One Thing Well
The third brick — boxes inside boxes, the six lines that answered ten pages, and why the best systems are made of small things that fit together
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The Fewest Doors
A field guide to building software that is secure by default — from the principles of 1975 to the xz backdoor, and from your own code down to the silicon
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Mechanical Sympathy
The second brick — why remembering has a distance, what a racing driver taught the fastest programmers, and why your kitchen is already a cache
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Remember, Change, Send
The first brick — what a system is, and why every computer, program and database is built from just three simple acts