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jorallan ([personal profile] jorallan) wrote2017-08-07 09:36 pm
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July reading (and coding)

July's reading:
  • Heretics of Dune (Frank Herbert): felt like a novel which was written mostly because anything with "Dune" in the title and "Herbert" as an author is a license to print money; the Scattering has happened, but now we need something new now that Leto has gone. Better than God Emperor (which isn't saying much), but still doesn't really hold a candle to the original book. I may read Chapterhouse Dune one day, but I'm unlikely to spend any time with the Brian Herbert books.
  • Conservation of Shadows (Yoon Ha Lee): for the first half of this short story collection, I was really enjoying being pushed out of my typical hard sci-fi into something a bit different: still sci-fi, but a lot of stuff on the power of words and pictures (and a lot of betrayal). My the end, I was starting to think that the power of words and pictures was perhaps a little bit overdone, and maybe it was time for a different theme. Enough there that I'll probably read the rapidly becoming famous Ninefox Gambit at some point.
  • The Cloud Roads (Martha Wells): incomplete, and unlikely to be finished. The thinks-he's-the-last-of-his-shapeshifter-race suddenly discovers he's not the last of his race after all. Just didn't grab me enough in the first couple of chapters to make me think it would be worth continuing.
  • The Salt Roads (Nalo Hopkinson): if you don't like one set of roads, try another. A strange book, just too "literarture-y" for my simple tastes as it follows the stories of three oppressed African women across three time periods - but just never really seemed to go anywhere or come to any real conclusions. Or maybe I'm just a philistine, who knows?
August's reading will include Inventors at Work, The Bread We Eat In Dreams, Moving Mars and probably a whole load more as I'm spending a week away with no Internet :-)

July's coding:
  • z80trace: a simple tool to visualize instruction flow on a processor. Potentially interesting, but needs some work.
  • DivMMC emulation for Fuse - pretty much working, but needs tidying up.
  • Work-wise, some data science for our driver identification patent and some embedded C coding for a client project. Scaring the rest of the team with pointers :-)
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