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- The following icons are the only important ones, they indicate some kind of content will be present at the page:
  - 📎: collection
  - ❓: question
  - ⚛️: atomic note
  - 📝: freeform note
- All the others, such as 👤📙📜 or no icon at all, represent short encyclopedia articles at most.
📝 notetaking: static vs. dynamic collections (WIP)
📎 Somerville Glossary of Software Design
📎 A Lexicon of Trouble
❓ What category of software are web browsers and Emacs?
⚛️ History of Model-View-Controller (MVC)
📝 distinguishing the hourglass model, the narrow waist concept, two-stage pipelines, and Perlis Epigram #9 (DRAFT)
📝 relationships between high level code things: modularity, composability, abstraction, etc
🏗️ Hyperstring
⚛️ names are for human display/discovery, computer links should be by hash or UUID
⚛️ don't make me name things
⚛️ domain-ID format
recommendations
- 📙 Algebra-Driven Design
- 📜 Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine
  - The Roots of Lisp
- 📙 The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
- 📙 Algorithms (Dasgupta)
  - recommended by 👤 Dan Luu: danluu.com/programming-books
- 📙 The Dream Machine
  - This describes the full experimental computer -> commercial mainframe -> minicomputer -> workstation -> PC progression. Normally the cost of covering so much would be lots of perspective changes, but 👤 J. C. R. Licklider was involved in it all so there's no tradeoff to be made. Fantastic!
  - I wish I'd read this before more specific books like 📙 The Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder tries to give some background on minicomputers, but it's not the same as being able to place Data General as one chapter of a much larger story.
- The Two Cultures
- 📙 Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business
- 🎞️ Apollo 11: The Complete Descent
- 🎞️ Apollo 11
- 📙 Apollo
- 📙 Skunk Works
- 📙 The Rickover Effect
- 📙 Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of the Steam Age
- 📙 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 📙 How to Take Smart Notes
- 📙 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- 🎞️ Evolution of the Desk
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