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a list of books I recommend

isaac's reading list

This is a list of books that I have found useful in my gradual/ongoing transition from software developer to startup founder.

If there's something that you think I ought to read, then open an issue.

This is not a comprehensive list of every book I've read on any of these subjects. Just the ones that I can wholeheartedly recommend because they are interesting, entertaining, and/or educational enough to be worth the experience.

I have a strong preference towards audiobooks rather than paper or kindle. Audio means I can consume it while doing things that occupy my hands, like commuting or going to the gym.

Non-Fiction

Leadership, business, and startup stuff

Communication as such

Cognitive Biases and other fun stuff

Fiction

Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Sword
Ancillary Mercy
The Martian
A Fire Upon The Deep
A Deepness In The Sky
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune (Clearly this is where the series goes really truly off the rails. Almost didn't make it to this list. The first 3 are much better, but this one is wacky enough to be kinda interesting.)
World War Z Fantasticly well-done audiobook. The book really shines in this format.

node-glob

glob functionality for node.js

rimraf

A `rm -rf` util for nodejs

node-lru-cache

A fast cache that automatically deletes the least recently used items

minimatch

a glob matcher in javascript

github

Just a place to track issues and feature requests that I have for github

nave

Virtual Environments for Node

node-graceful-fs

fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE

sax-js

A sax style parser for JS

tshy

node-tar

st

A node module for serving static files. Does etags, caching, etc.

inherits

Easy simple tiny inheritance in JavaScript

cluster-master

Take advantage of node built-in cluster module behavior

minipass

A stream implementation that does more by doing less

once

Run a function exactly one time

yallist

Yet Another Linked List

server-destroy

When close() is just not enough

ttlcache

semicolons

When you require("semicolons"), THEY ARE REQUIRED.

slide-flow-control

A flow control library that fits in a slideshow

treeverse

Walk any kind of tree structure depth- or breadth-first. Supports promises and advanced map-reduce operations with a very small API.

multipart-js

node-touch

touch(1) for node

catcher

async-cache

Cache your async lookups and don't fetch the same thing more than necessary.

core-util-is

The util.is* functions from Node core

dezalgo

Contain async insanity so that the dark pony lord doesn't eat souls

github-flavored-markdown

Deprecated. Use marked instead.

minizlib

A smaller, faster, zlib stream built on http://npm.im/minipass and Node.js's zlib binding.

node-bench

free-as-in-hugs-license

A (Not OSI-Approved) software license you may use if you wish

sigmund

Quick and dirty psychoanalysis for objects

inflight

Add callbacks to requests in flight to avoid async duplication

fast-list

A fast O(1) push/pop/shift/unshift thing

gist-cli

A gist cli client written in Node

dotfiles

wrappy

Callback wrapping utility

block-stream

A stream of fixed-size blocks

isexe

Minimal module to check if a file is executable.

.vim

My vim settings

jackspeak

A very strict and proper argument parser.

char-spinner

Put a little spinner on process.stderr, as unobtrusively as possible.

st-example

an example of serving static files easily in node using the st module

templar

A lightweight template thing for node http servers

nosync

Prevent sync functions in your node programs after first tick

use-strict

Makes all subsequent modules in Node get loaded in strict mode.

path-scurry

ssh-key-decrypt

Decrypt and encrypted ssh private keys

ejsgi

Like JSGI, but using streams.

node-eliza

A Robotic Rogerian Therapist, on IRC

natives

Do stuff with Node.js's native JavaScript modules

goosh

Front-end old-style terminal interface, for web services like those provided by Google and Yahoo.

simple-node-server

A simple fast node http server toolkit.

util-extend

Node's internal object extension function, for you!

chownr

Like `chown -R`

csrf-lite

CSRF protection utility for framework-free node sites.

chmodr

Like `chmod -R` in node

node-hexedit

hexadecimal editor in node

back-to-markdown.css

Turns any markdown editor into a WYSIWYG editor

node-async-simple

Multiply two numbers, slowly, on the thread pool.

json-stringify-nice

Stringify an object sorting scalars before objects, and defaulting to 2-space indent

node-strict

Makes your Node programs strict about stuff when loaded

fs.realpath

Use node's fs.realpath, but fall back to the JS implementation if the native one fails

sock-daemon

promise-all-reject-late

Like Promise.all, but save rejections until all promises are resolved

promise-call-limit

Call an array of promise-returning functions, restricting concurrency to a specified limit.

node6-module-system-change

A demonstration of what changed in node 6's module loading logic

color-support

A module which will endeavor to guess your terminal's level of color support.

polite-json

ircretary

A note-taking IRC bot

yamlish

A parser for the yamlish format

fs-minipass

fs read and write streams based on minipass

pseudomap

Like `new Map` but for older JavaScripts

node-fuse

Fuse bindings for nodejs

slocket

A locking socket alternative to file-system mutex locks

proto-list

A list of objects bound by prototype chain

retry-until

A function that will keep running a function you give it as long as it throws for a period of time

node-srand

srand bindings for node - Seedable predictable pseudorandom number generator

mutate-fs

Mutate the Node.js filesystem behavior for tests.

ryp

Featureless npm-package bundling.

filewatcherthing

a thing to watch a file and then run a command

gatsby-remark-tumble-media

A plugin for gatsby-transformer-remark to support photosets, video, and audio in markdown frontmatter.

sodn

joyent-node-on-smart-example

error-page

Easily send errors in Node.js HTTP servers. Think like the `ErrorDocument` declarations in Apache config files.

_ify

an itty bitty curry utility

url-parse-as-address

Parse a URL assuming that it's http/https, even if protocol or // isn't present

http-https

A wrapper that chooses http or https for requests

perfalize

cssmin

A cross-platform regular-expression based minifier for CSS

duplex-passthrough

like a passthrough, but in both directions

mintee

a tiny module for piping an input to multiple output streams

create-isaacs

An npm init module to create modules like I do

tap-assert

An assert module that outputs tap result objects

domain-http-server

A module thingie to use domains in Express or Restify or just regular HTTP servers

fs-readstream-seek

A fs.ReadStream that supports seeking to arbtrary locations within a file.

canonical-host

Node module to redirect users to the canonical hostname for your site.

mcouch

Put your CouchDB in Manta, attachments and docs and all

hardhttps

Slightly hardened https for node

exit-code

`process.exitCode` behavior back-ported from io.js and Node.js 0.12+