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Ian Brown

igb@books.hccp.org

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.

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20% complete! Ian Brown has read 5 of 24 books.

Sarah Wynn-Williams: Careless People (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Macmillan Audio) No rating

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny …

This was a trip to read. Every narrator and author is somewhat unreliable, especially when it comes to memoirs, but a lot of what is in this book scans.

The lengths to which #Facebook has gone to prevent the author from publishing or promoting this book just make it a more compelling read.

Overall it is written better than most tell-alls, and the author seems to have retained a fair amount of emails and notes from her days at Facebook^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Meta.

Faiz Siddiqui: Hubris Maximus (2025, St. Martin's Press)

A pretty fun and frustrating account of Musk's self-immolation. I am a bit biased because the author, Faiz Siddiqui, does take a few paragraphs to document my run-in with Elon, but it goes deep into a lot of non-Twitter material.

Another (better) highlight is the chapter featuring the amazing @chancerydaily@masto.ai. Yeah Chance!

Anyway, pick up a copy at your local bookstore!

Juan Fumero, Athanasios Stratikopolous, Christos Kotselidis: Programming Heterogeneous Hardware via Managed Runtime Systems (Springer) No rating