Some of my favorite books I have read over the years, mostly books on web development, game development and occasionally self-help.

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  Spelunky: Boss Fight Books #11

  ✅ Completed: September 2019

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  Show Your Work

  ✅ Completed: August 2019

  Good read

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  Anything You Want

  ✅ Completed: August 2019

  Recommended for entreprenuers.

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  The Hard Thing About Hard Things

  ✅ Completed: July 2019

  Recommended for entreprenuers.

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  How Linux Works

  ✅ Completed: March 2019

  Recommended for any linux user.

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  Designing Games

  ✅ Completed: Feburary 2019

  Recommended for game developers.

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  Non-Designers Design Book

  ✅ Completed: September 2018

  Great book for UI / design beginners.

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  Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design

  ✅ Completed: Feburary 2018

  Must read for game designers.

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  The Animator's Survival Kit

  ✅ Completed: Janurary 2018

  Best book for mastering animation.

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  Start Small, Stay Small

  ✅ Completed: September 2017

  Great book for solo founders.

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  Artificial Intelligence for Games

  ✅ Completed: December 2016

  I always come back to this when working on AI.

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  Real-Time Rendering

  ✅ Completed: December 2016

  Great for learning the graphics pipeline.

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  Sound Effects Bible

  ✅ Completed: November 2016

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  Scrum Shortcuts

  ✅ Completed: November 2016

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  The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

  ✅ Completed: September 2016

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  Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

  ✅ Completed: October 2016

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  Zero to One

  ✅ Completed: August 2016

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  The Success System That Never Fails

  ✅ Completed: August 2016

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  Gamers at Work

  ✅ Completed: July 2016

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  Little Book of Common Sense Investing

  ✅ Completed: June 2016

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  The Startup Owners Manual

  ✅ Completed: June 2016

  An other must read for startup founders.

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  The Four Steps to the Epiphany

  ✅ Completed: June 2016

  Must read for startups.

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  Framed Ink

  ✅ Completed: June 2016

  Must read for learning how to compose an image.

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  The Indie Game Developer Handbook

  ✅ Completed: April 2016

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  Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design

  ✅ Completed: April 2016

  Best book on game design

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  Game Character Creation with Blender and Unity

  ✅ Completed: April 2016

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  The Design of Everyday Things

  ✅ Completed: April 2016

  Great intro to UX design, goes too deep though.

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  UX Design For Startups

  ✅ Completed: December 2015

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  On Writing Well

  ✅ Completed: December 2015

  The only book you need for writing better.

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  Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests

  ✅ Completed: November 2015

  Great book for mastering TDD.

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  Remote: Office Not Required

  ✅ Completed: September 2015

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  The Pragmatic Programmer

  ✅ Completed: August 2015

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  The Productive Programmer

  ✅ Completed: July 2015

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  Scrum Guide

  ✅ Completed: July 2015

  Every dev should read this.

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  Practices of an Agile Developer

  ✅ Completed: July 2015

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  Pro Git

  ✅ Completed: May 2015

  Contains everything you need to know about Git.

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  Practical VIM

  ✅ Completed: May 2015

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  Character Development in Blender

  ✅ Completed: February 2015

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  The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics

  ✅ Completed: February 2015

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  Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual

  ✅ Completed: Janurary 2015

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  Eloquent Ruby

  ✅ Completed: Janurary 2015

  Read this for a deeper understanding of Ruby.

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  Crafting Rails 4 Applications

  ✅ Completed: Janurary 2015

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  The Passionate Programmer

  ✅ Completed: December 2014

  Great book, teaches you how to get the most out of your job.

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  How to Stop Worrying & Start Living

  ✅ Completed: November 2014

  Must read, even if you don't think you worry.

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  Game Coding Complete

  ✅ Completed: August 2014

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  Game Programming Patterns

  ✅ Completed: July 2014

  The best book on game specific design patterns.

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  Theory of Fun

  ✅ Completed: May 2014

  Must read for game designers.

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  How to Win Friends and Influence People

  ✅ Completed: May 2014

  Highly recommend, I use tips in this book constantly.

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  The AWK Programming Language

  ✅ Completed: September 2013

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  Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

  ✅ Completed: April 2013

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  Mastering Regular Expressions

  ✅ Completed: Feburary 2013

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  Developing Backbone.js Applications

  ✅ Completed: November 2012

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  Recipes With Backbone

  ✅ Completed: October 2012

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  Eloquent Javascript

  ✅ Completed: September 2012

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  Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

  ✅ Completed: October 2011

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  Pro JavaScript Techniques

  ✅ Completed: September 2011

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  Papervision 3D Essentials

  ✅ Completed: May 2011

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  Modern C++ Design

  ✅ Completed: August 2010

  Teaches you new concepts like aspects and how to get the most out of templates.

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  OpenGL Shading Language

  ✅ Completed: November 2010

  Great book on shaders.

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  Beginning C++ Game Programming

  ✅ Completed: August 2009

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  The C Programming Language

  ✅ Completed: September 2009

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  C++ Coding Standards

  ✅ Completed: May 2009

  Highly recommend, changed the way I develop.