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@wraithe@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 17:49:04

Another eclectic collection of books has been dropped off at the local “Little Free Library” with their “please don’t sell me” stamps and QR codes to the various books pages at Bookwyrm.social (Fedi GR alt) & @thestorygraph.com (Black owned GR alt) so that people can read about/review the books.

Stack of books with QR label stickers
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin.
A Storm Of Swords - George R. R. Martin.
A Feast For Crows - George R. R. Martin.
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
Angels And Demons - Dennis Lehane
World War Z - Max Brooks
Seventh Son - Orson Scott card
The Lost Swords: The First Trio - Fred Saberhagen
Lumberjanes Vol 1 - ND Stevenson
Black Panther: World Of Wakanda
Abbot (free comic day edition) - Saladin Ahmed
And a leather bound blank journal with carving on cover w…
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-06-02 17:49:30

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."