The Bench

• Yet Another Personal Site. Again, With Feeling.

  Published May 2026

  My personal website pattern goes: build, abandon, rebuild a decade later. This time I want to break the loop. This post is me explaining why I think I can.

  craftweb

• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

  Finished Mar 2024

  David Flanagan

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  developer

• The Salvage Crew

  Finished Oct 2022

  Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

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  science-fiction

• Mistborn Trilogy

  Finished May 2020

  Brandon Sanderson

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  fantasy

• Designing Data Intensive Applications

  Finished Feb 2020

  Martin Kleppmann

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  developer

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

  Finished Jan 2020

  Mark Manson

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  self-help

• Cracking the Coding Interview

  Finished Apr 2019

  Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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  developer

• The Giver

  Finished Apr 2018

  Lois Lowry

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  science-fiction

• Holacracy

  Finished Aug 2015

  Brian J. Robertson

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  business

• This Is How You Lose Her

  Finished Sep 2013

  Junot Díaz

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  fiction

• Fahrenheit 451

  Finished Jan 2012

  Ray Bradbury

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  science-fiction

• Meditations

  Finished Sep 2011

  Marcus Aurelius

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  philosophy

• In Their Own Words

  Finished May 2005

  Bill DeMain

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  music

• Minishoot' Adventures (external link)

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  Xbox

  Finished

  action-adventure

• Mixtape (external link)

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  PC

  Finished

  narrative-adventure

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