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erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
ooooo neat
i haven't thought about D in a while

i should actually study this a bit, since we seem to be reinventing some of it

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holding up a copy of The D Programming Language, by Andrei Alexandrescu; in front of a shelf of books in Oxfam
July 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
at the actual shop (nowhere nearby), ah it's delightful to visit right after restock day 😜

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a shelf of books in Oxfam, showing: sendmail Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C Learning SAS by example Practical HTML4 The Internet and Society Cionet Cookbook no 3 SAP BusinessObjects The Fifth Domain (?) Office 365 for Dummies Unix Backup & Recovery Haskell in Depth The Rust Programming Language Elements of Programming Interviews in Java me showing off my purchases - two books Haskell in Depth Computing Projects in Visual Basic.NET
March 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
oh _wow_

sorry, these two are gone now 😜

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holding up The Little Typer, by Friedman and Christiansen, in front of a shelf of other CS books standouts on the shelf behind include Get Programming in Haskell, Perl for Dunmies, UML Distilled, Learning React, Effective Java, a different book with a similar title, and several others Type-Driven Development with Idris, by Edwin Brady, in front of the same shelf as before close up of the shelf to highlight an older book: 99 Ways to Know and Use your Electronic Calculator, by Frenzel also visible are The HP Way, Office 365, something about AsyncIO, Effective Java, and others
April 30, 2026 at 4:21 PM
erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
absolute legendary item drop

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holding up a copy of LATEX: a document preparation system, by Leslie Lamport (updated for LATEX 2E!) in front of bookshelves at Cancer Research UK priced at £2 a sky blue book with a charming colourful pencil drawing of an anthropomorphic lion person sitting at their beige-box 90s PC among other things they have a framed portrait of their dog on the desk
September 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Discovered in Japan, this thrift store is a great find for streetwear lovers. From unique pieces to cool finds, it’s worth checking out if you're into secondhand fashion. #repost #ctto @thepreluv #StreetwearStyle #LetsGoThrifting #Japan
May 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
happened to pass the Free Books exchange on Sunday

(they change unit a lot for obvious reasons)

some fun stuff,
i left the manuals but they always delight me

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sign over the shopfront for GET Free Books Help yourself to our free books Global Educational Trust a shelf of the kind of retro computing stuff i collect for the aesthetic Flash 4, Flash 5, Reason 3, Microsoft COM, PHP4, Advanced PHP, and many other things are visible; it's a well-stocked computing shelf by thrifting standards several volumes of TRaNS: Trans-Regional And National Studies whatever that is manuals for Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6, a matched set
July 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
'nother cool thrifting find

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holding up a book in front of the shelf An Introduction to Microcomputers Volume 1 Basic Concepts by Adam Osborne the publication page and table of contents the part interesting to me is tge publication years - first printed 1976, through fourth printing in 1979 the table of contents also gives an interesting overview: what is a microcomputer the evolution of computers the origins of the microcomputer about this book how this book has been printed some fundamental concepts number systems decimal numbers binary numbers converting numbers from one base to another other number systems binary arithmetic binary addition binary subtraction binary multiplication binary division boolean algebra and computer logic `or` operation `and` operation `exclusive or` operation `not` operation common logical operations de Morgan's theorem the makings of a microcomputer memory organization memory words the byte memory addresses interpreting the contents of memory words stand alone pure binary data interpreted binary data character codes instruction codes the microcomputer central processing unit cpu registers how cpu registers are used the arithmetic and logic unit the control unit status flags instruction execution instruction timing instruction cycles how much should an instruction do? (end of page, not end of contents) a section of the contents page: Table of Contents (Continued) the concept of a programming language source programs object programs creating object programs program storage media assembly language assembly language syntax assembler directives memory addressing microcomputer memory addressing - where it began implied memory addressing direct memory addressing direct vs implied addressing variations of direct memory addressing paged direct addressing direct memory addressing in microcomputers auto increment and decrement the stack memory stacks the cascade stack how a stack is used nested subroutines and use of the stack indirect addressing a paged computer's indirect addressing program relative indirect addressing indirect addressing - minicomputers vs microcomputers indexed addressing microcomputer indexed addressing an instruction set (page cuts off)
June 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
cool finds for £3.50!

i left the second one, mostly because it's heavy (though also a sense that i "shouldn't" need it... even if i probably do lol), so - still there for now!

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Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, by Richard Bird, in front of a shelf of books in Oxfam Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition, by Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon held in front of a shelf of books in Oxfam
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM