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[This is obviously not an exhaustive list of every book I've ever read, just since I started cataloguing.]
[Ratings represent my personal feelings towards the book. They are not a reflection of how I feel about the author or necessarily the quality of the writing or plot unless otherwise specified. A * means I'm still reading the book so the rating is subject to change and a perfect score means I can't find anything obviously wrong with the book.]
This book had a nice collection of information about various teas and a bit about how the teas are produced. Having some tasting notes alongside a picture of the dried leaves and brewed tea was very interesting.
However, I didn't like how judgemental the authors were towards Western brewing styles and Western customs. It felt very much like they were putting Eastern tea traditions on a pedestal and putting down the Western traditions. This is quite common in tea enthusiast circles, where Middle Eastern, Eastern European, British, and other non-East Asian tea traditions are ignored or swept to the side).
Also, the book exhibited a typical mildly pseudo-scientific vibe often encountered in tea enthusiast circles. For example, on page 37: "One last caveat: water should be boiled only once. [...] reheating water that has come to a boil and cooled completely will create flat-tasting, lifeless water." This, to me, is absolute nonsense that I haven't seen anywhere else even in enthusiast tea spaces. The most I can find about this even through internet searches is people debunking the myth that twice-boiled water concentrates harmful metals.
So far, so good. A bit more of an auto-biography than I was expecting, but it's very well-written.
To be completely honest, this is a book that could have been a long blog post. The beginning has engaging personal anecdotes and important information and considerations when creating a personal knowledge management system, but the book devolves into talking about various other people's experiences (including celebrities) and how PKM systems worked for them. Only about a third of the book felt useful, with the rest feeling like filler.
Short and sweet. A good overview of everything related to Tarsnap. It's nice to have this book next to me when I'm working with Tarsnap.
A good introduction to these bits of OpenBSD software, taking you through nearly everything you might want to do with them.
This was okay, but certainly very out of date now (released in 2013). There are still useful sections, especially since OpenBSD is a relatively stable platform (compared to Linux which has one fundamental thing change every couple years), but there is still a lot that is noticeably out of date. Wait for a new copy.
This was quite a good introduction to FreeBSD. Though, since this was released in 2018 it's also starting to get quite long in the tooth. The content is closer to what you'd experience in FreeBSD these days and is still very useful and helpful, but there are some things that are starting to show their age (such as ZFS becoming even more popular/common compared to GEOM).
The perfect book. 10/10. (It's honestly a really good resource on using the standard text editor.)
A great resource all about using Jails on FreeBSD (kind of like containers are for Linux, but not really). This was an invaluable resource when I was working on Jails-related infrastructure.
I stopped reading this book about ⅓rd of the way through. I found it too wordy, too self-congratulatory, and like there wasn't enough of substance. As I was reading the book I kept thinking: "when is he going to get to the meat of the topic already?"