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Margaret Eldridge
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Book lover, sailing enthusiast, baker. I 💗 cats, so bring on the pics.
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Celebrating Haskell Brain Teasers by Rebecca Skinner, now in beta!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/46RxiJ9

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#haskell #functionalprogramming #pragprog #books
Book cover featuring white puzzle pieces floating on water
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Celebrating the audiobook release of The Stress Equation by Marcus Lagré.

🔗 read more: bit.ly/4gPJQVO

📘 audiobook: pragprog.com/titles/...

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#stress #burnout #productivity #pragprog #books
Book cover featuring a chewed yellow pencil.
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Celebrating Vector Search with JavaScript: Build Intelligent Search Systems with AI by Ben Greenberg, now in print!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

📘 print: tinyurl.com/javascri...

#javascript #vectorsearch #ai #pragprog
Book cover featuring colorful topographic map in neon lines on a black background, with grid lines and numbers suggesting data and AI search
September 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I enjoyed reading about Goatmire this morning. It was an Elixir event in Sweden put on by @lawik.bsky.social. Many PragProg authors were there. What fun! This is how you build a dev community. underjord.io/confere... And my gods, the outfits--love it.
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Celebrating A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Python Edition, Volume II by Jay Wengrow, now in print!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3ImpgzP

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

📘 print: tinyurl.com/jwpython2

#python #algorithms #datastructures
Book cover featuring a swirling pattern of luminous dots
September 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Time's almost up!
Grab 45% off all PragProg titles (except The Pragmatic Programmer).
Use code: flashsale
Sale ends tomorrow, Sept 22 at 9:00 CDT -> pragprog.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Good news! Our flash sale is extended.
45% off all PragProg titles (except The Pragmatic Programmer)
Promo code: flashsale
Ends Sept 22, 9:00 CDT -> pragprog.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Celebrating Kotlin Brain Teasers by Sam Cooper, now in print!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3K7PUwM
📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...
📘 print: bookshop.org/a/2696/...

#kotlin #android #programming #puzzles #pragprog
Book cover featuring a maze with a lightbulb at the center
September 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Celebrating the beta release of Brian Hogan's latest book, Write Better with Vale!

📘Read more: bit.ly/42k8act

🔗ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#technicalwriting #documentation #valelinter #projectmanagment #pragprog #books
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Celebrating Risk-First Software Development, Second Edition by Rob Moffat, now in beta!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4gp6eFC

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#projectmanagement #risk #softwaredev #programming #pragprog #books
September 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Celebrating Ash Framework by Rebecca Le and Zach Daniel, now in print!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4mVClik
🔗 Book club: elixirbookclub.githu...
📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...
📘 print: tinyurl.com/ashframe...

#AshFramework #Elixir #WebDev #FunctionalProgramming
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Celebrating Android Studio Narwhal Essentials, Java Edition by Neil Smyth, now available from PragProg.

🔗Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📔ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#Android #androideStudio #Narwhal #Java #mobile #programmming #pragprog
August 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Celebrating author Leemay Nassery, in the spotlight on DevTalk now through end of October. Stop by and ask her a qq for a chance to win one of her two A/B Testing books:

forum.devtalk.com/t/...
covers of 2 books on A/B testing by Leemay Nassery featuring contrasting red and yellow images of leaves and birds
August 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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From Project Gutenberg to boardrooms, the illustrious @vmbrasseur shares her journey in open source on #CHAOSScast:

podcast.chaoss.commu...

VMB's books: pragprog.com/search/...

#opensource #authorinterview #pragprog @macdonaldeditorial @pragmaticandy
covers for books on open source by VM Brasseur featuring blacksmithing images on dark backgrounds
August 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Celebrating Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang by Andrea Leopardi, now in print!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#Elixir #Erlang #networking #WeBEAMTogether #programming #pragprog
August 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Celebrating Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir by Joseph Koski now in beta!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3V5AQBZ

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#Elixir #functionalprogramming #MyElixirStatus #WeBEAMTogether #programming #pragprog
Book cover for Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir by Joseph Koski, showing a world map with glowing blue paths, arrows, and markers
August 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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24 hours from next Chewy delivery, so I prepared homemade cat food. Recipe: wild-caught Alaskan coho salmon, olive oil, and sweet potatos, lightly cooked (3 min) in the hot pot, and then pureed to the fine pate consistency. Reception? "What is this garbage, lady?" Love Love, Pearl, & Bean.
#cats
three cats gaze out a screen door
August 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Celebrating Build, Tune, Explore with OpenWebRX+ by Richard Murnane, now in beta!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3Jkr8Jj

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#SDR #SoftwareDefinedRadio #Hobby #RaspberryPi #pragprog #gerbil
Book cover for Build, Tune, Explore with OpenWebRX+: Web-Connected Software-Defined Radio Made Simple by Richard Murnane. The cover depicts a light-brown gerbil sitting at a desk, wearing headphones, and using a computer. On the monitor is a radio tuning dial surrounded by icons of a satellite, airplane, microphone, vehicles, radio tower, and musical notes.
August 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Celebrating Jetpack Compose 1.8 Essentials by Neil Smyth, now available from PragProg!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4lnLlLA

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

#kotlin #kotlincoroutine #programming #pragprog #books
August 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Celebrating Kotlin Coroutine Confidence by Sam Cooper, now out of beta and fully released!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4m6iGfd

📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/...

📘 print: bit.ly/4lehqFH

#kotlin #kotlincoroutine #programming #pragprog #books
Book cover for Kotlin Coroutine Confidence by Sam Cooper from The Pragmatic Programmers. The design features a dark blue background with white text and an abstract network of multicolored lines and dots in purple, white, and blue forming an arrow shape pointing to the right.
August 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Celebrating Vector Search with JavaScript: Build Intelligent Search Systems with AI by Ben Greenberg now in beta!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/bgvector

#javascript #ai #vectorsearch #programming #pragprog #books
Book cover for 'Vector Search with JavaScript: Build Intelligent Search Systems with AI' from The Pragmatic Programmers. The design features colorful, topographic-style contour lines with floating numeric data labels and dots, representing a digital vector field.
July 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Celebrating Agile Web Development with Rails 8 by Sam Ruby, now in print from The Pragmatic Programmers!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...
📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/rails8

#ruby #rails #agile #webdevelopment #programming #pragprog #books
book cover featuring a racing train in a streak of light
July 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Celebrating More Ocaml by John Whitington, now available from The Pragmatic Programmers!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/d-jwocaml

Bonus: OCaml from the Very Beginning ebook!

#ocaml #programming #pragprog #book
book cover featuring the smiling face of a camel
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Celebrating Simplicity by Dave Thomas, now in print!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/dtcode

📘 print book: bookshop.org/a/2696/...

#agile #programming #pragprog #books
Book cover featuring a blue orb.
June 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Celebrating Next-Level A/B Testing by Leemay Nassery, now in print!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/abtestprac

📘 print book: bookshop.org/p/books...

#abtesting #programming #pragprog #books
Book cover featuring a red bird and a yellow bird.
June 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM