Samuel Arbesman is publishing a new book about code, but with a different slant than what you’ll usually see. He once said this about code:

I like to think of code as a sort of reverse centrifuge, spinning huge numbers of topics together and intimately connecting them. These topics range from our attempts to model the world, the nature of history, how we think and use language (both natural and computational), to even biology, philosophy, and serendipity.

This book is an attempt to peel back that curtain and lay bare the artifice that’s been constructed around computing. And to have some fun. And those are some very lofty goals, and sorely needed right now, as the programming world spends much of its time trying to abstract away the best bits of itself.

This one is shooting to the top of my list.