The Devil in the Stack

Andrew Smith . August 2024 . Beaverton Lib. 005.1 SMI

British-born 1961 Andrew Smith website

My first glance at this book was off-putting - I somehow got the idea that the author thought perjoratively about programmers and technologists. The book is actually a journalist making a deep and sincere dive into software, the communities of people who create and maintain it, and how they think about it.



p001 Ch.01 Revenge of the SpaghettiOs



p013 Ch.02 Holy Grail



p021 Ch.03 PyLadies and Code Freaks



p038 Ch.04 Minutely Organized Particulars



p046 Ch.05 The Real Moriarty



.p066 Ch.06 The New Mind Readers



p084 Ch.07 Theories of Memory



p126 Ch.08 Hilarity Ensues



p159 Ch.09 Catch 32





p213 Ch.11 The Gun on the Mantlepiece



p236 Ch.12 Code Rush



p265 Ch.13 Enter the Frankenalgorithm



p287 Ch.14 Algorave?



p300 Ch.15 A Codemy of Errors



p320 Ch.16 Do Algos Dream of Numeric Sheep?: An AI Suite



.p375 Ch.17 Apologies to Richard Feynman



p392 Ch.18 A Cloud Lifts



p405 Ch.19 Strange Loops and Abstractions: The Devil in the Stack



p421 Select Bibliography



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