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Tag Archives: Book Review
Practical Lock Picking
Title: Practical Lock Picking, A Physical Penetration Tester’s Training Guide Author: Deviant Ollam Completed: December 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: I’ve been into lock picking for years. I don’t remember when I got started but it was probably around … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lit Review, Maker
Tagged Book Review, books, engineering, lockpicking
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Hell Yeah or No
Title: Hell Yeah or No what’s worth doing Author: Derek Sivers Completed: November 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: For many years, I’ve been interested in the writings of Derek Sivers. It goes back far enough I don’t have any … Continue reading
The 99% Invisible City
Title: The 99% Invisible City A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design Author: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt Completed: November 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: I’ve been listening to the 99% Invisible podcast for over a … Continue reading
A Closed and Common Orbit
Title: A Closed and Common Orbit Author: Becky Chambers Completed: October 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: After finishing The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first in the Wayfarers series, I assumed the second book would continue … Continue reading
Potholes and Pavements
Title: Potholes and Pavements: A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network Author: Laura Laker Completed: October 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: This book was harder for me to get through than many of the others about infrastructure and … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Lit Review
Tagged bike, Book Review, books, Britain, transportation
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Picks and Shovels
Title: Picks and Shovels Author: Cory Doctorow Completed: Sept 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: This is the third book in the Martin Hench series and having read the first two earlier this summer, I moved onto this one. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, books, fiction, hacker, Reading, Technology
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The Lost Subways of North America
Title: The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been Author: Jake Berman Completed: August 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: I’ve had one or two people tell me recently that … Continue reading
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Title: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Author: Becky Chambers Completed: August 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: A few years ago I came across A Psalm for the Wild Built. I don’t remember how I found it, … Continue reading
Growing a Farmer
Title: Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land Author: Kurt Timmermeister Completed: August 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: At a recent kid’s birthday party, I was talking with a neighbor about local foods. He has … Continue reading
A Study in Scarlet
Title: A Study in Scarlet (free from Project Gutenberg) Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Completed: July 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: After deciding to keep a fiction book on my phone to read during moments of downtime, I picked a … Continue reading
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