Computer nerd getting back into the habit of curling up with a good book he so fondly remembers from ages past.
My interests range relatively widely, from history (both, books about history and history novels) over military SciFi to Fantasy to all kinds of technical books.
I prefer long-running series or large universes with dozens of books when it comes to my fiction reading.
My all-time favourites: - David Weber's Honorverse. Far and away the best military SciFi out there - Rebecca Gable's Waringham series
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Under the command of the newly appointed Warmaster Horus, the Great Crusade continues. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, leads …
@timo@mastodon.online I've got it on my screen, but at the speed I will likely be going I'm not sure I will get far enough in time. Plus, in the past few years I've found the adventofcode to not be too great for learning/trying a new language. The puzzles themselves are a bit too demanding for me to enjoy while also having to think about my programming language instead of relying on muscle memory.
@zrail@hachyderm.io Yupp, I think it avoids a lot of the sillier fights I'm regularly seeing in the C++ community.
Well, I'm coming from a C and C++ background, so I'm used to painful error handling. ;-)
Go is rapidly becoming the preferred language for building web services. While there are plenty …
Starting to get back into programming outside of work again, and considering that a lot of the software I'm running in my Homelab is written in Go, I chose to have another look at that.
I'm coming to really enjoy the Horus Heresy, and in particular this installment. It's nice to see the PoV from a different legion, with different characters taking central stage, but still progressing the the same story.
I also enjoyed that we got a peek into Naval warfare in the Warhammer 40k universe. I hope that there's going to be at least a few proper space battles in the future - and ones between actual ships, and not just "okay, and here is the typical Astartes battle, but now aboard a starship during a boarding action".
The planet of Caliban exists much as it has for thousands of years – the knightly orders protect the common …
Under the command of the newly appointed Warmaster Horus, the Great Crusade continues. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, leads …
And on to the next one.
Warmaster Horus leads the Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III, but the …
My favourite among the Horus Heresy books up to now, as the Heresy has now kicked off and the backroom plotting is at least somewhat abetting towards the middle of this one.
Speaking for the overall series, I was a bit worried how having multiple authors writing the same story with the same main characters would turn out, but I have to say that my worries were misplaced. There's no weird "Change of Character" for the main characters between the different authors.
Warmaster Horus leads the Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III, but the victory is tainted after Horus's …
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …
Content warning A few little spoilers for WH40K: False Gods
It was a good second book. I'm looking forward to seeing how Loken and Torgaddon develop, and I'm now wondering whether they will survive the heresy, and how long they will stay with Horus, especially after the last scene in the book was the declaration of the Heresy.
