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  1. Agentic Software Engineering
    Agentic Software Engineering
    The Definitive Governance Framework
    Hugo L. Villalobos

    Stop treating AI like a deterministic compiler and wondering why your codebase is degrading into hallucinated spaghetti code. Agentic Software Engineering provides the architecture, constraints, and rigorous governance needed to safely transition your team from manual typists to AI Orchestrators.

  2. SIMD Programming for Modern Software Engineers
    SIMD Programming for Modern Software Engineers
    From Fundamentals to Advanced Optimization
    Steve Publications

    SIMD can make software dramatically faster, but getting it right takes more than knowing a few intrinsics. This book shows you how vectorization really works, how to avoid costly mistakes and how to turn ordinary code into fast, production-ready software with techniques you can use again and again.

  3. Local AI Engineering with Ollama
    Local AI Engineering with Ollama
    Run, understand, customize, fine-tune, and build agentic apps on your own hardware
    Aymen El Amri

    Pull a model onto a machine you own, shape it with a Modelfile, fine-tune your own adapter, and build a chat app that calls tools and talks to an MCP server, all running on your own hardware. By the end, you'll know exactly where owning your AI beats renting it, and where it doesn't.

  4. The Psychology of Computer Programming
    The Psychology of Computer Programming
    Silver Anniversary Edition
    Gerald M. Weinberg

    Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology of Computer Programming endures as a penetrating analysis of the intelligence, skill, teamwork, and problem-solving power of the computer programmer.

  5. Designing Deterministic Systems with Modern C++
    Designing Deterministic Systems with Modern C++
    Host-First Development on Linux
    Mark E. Wilson

    Learn how to design embedded systems the sane way: on your Linux host, with modern C++, predictable timing, clean interfaces, and no unnecessary complexity.

  6. Product Engineering with AI
    Product Engineering with AI
    A practical guide to product engineering in an AI native era
    Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh

    A practical guide to product engineering in an AI native era, where building shifts from manual construction to steering tools, editors, and agents. Product Engineering with AI covers platforms, agentic workflows, prompting, code quality, UX, and responsible practices for getting from prototype to production. 

  7. The Complete SQL Guide: From Beginner to Advanced
    The Complete SQL Guide: From Beginner to Advanced
    Master Structured Query Language for Database Development, Data Analysis, and Performance Engineering
    Steve Publications

    Go from your first SQL query to solving real database problems with confidence. This hands-on guide covers everything from SQL fundamentals and data analysis to advanced queries, optimization and production best practices, with practical examples that work across today’s major database systems.

  8. THE SECURITY MINDSET
    THE SECURITY MINDSET
    The Founder's, Executive's and Developer's Playbook
    Skeler Security

    This playbook was prepared by SkelerSecurity to equip founders, executives and developers of earlystage healthcare, financial technology and adjacent high-trust ventures with the security mindset, the controls, and the business case they need to operate safely in a threat environment that has industrialized.

  9. The World of Smalltalk
    The World of Smalltalk
    From Philosophy to Practice: A Complete Guide to the Language That Invented Object-Oriented Programming
    Steve Publications

    Discover Smalltalk, the language that shaped object-oriented programming. From its core philosophy to hands-on techniques and modern tools, this guide takes you from your first message to confident development in a live, interactive environment. Learn why Smalltalk still matters and how its ideas can change the way you think about code.

  10. Engineering Distributed Systems on the BEAM
    Engineering Distributed Systems on the BEAM
    Building Reliable, Scalable Applications with Erlang/OTP and the Ecosystem
    Steve Publications

    What does it take to build distributed systems that keep working when things go wrong? Engineering Distributed Systems on the BEAM goes beyond syntax to show how Erlang/OTP turns concurrency, failure and recovery into practical design tools. Build a real system from the ground up, then learn how to scale, deploy and operate it with confidence.

  11. Cognitive Productivity with macOS
    Cognitive Productivity with macOS
    7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge
    Luc P. Beaudoin

    In today's competitive knowledge economy, you always need to keep learning —and fast. But most information and apps get in the way. This book describes 7 principles for selecting, processing and mastering knowledge using potent Mac apps.

  12. Java 25 Beginner guide

    Finally, a Java Book Written for Actual BeginnersNo jargon. No assumptions. Just clear explanations, real examples, and practical projects. Learn Java 25 from scratch and build real applications in 12 weeks.28 chapters. 100+ examples. 50+ exercises. One complete path from "Hello World" to professional developer.

  13. Developing a Computer Operating System from Scratch
    Developing a Computer Operating System from Scratch
    An Attempt to Introduce OS Development at Beginner Level
    TINU TOM

    The first-ever book aimed at introducing operating system development to absolute beginners. The topics begin with programming in C and programming in assembly, and progress toward practical OS development.The book uses only simple methods, so it covers only a few essential topics in C and assembly programming, making it suitable for beginners.

  14. Aprendiendo Git
    Aprendiendo Git
    ¡Domina y comprende Git de una vez por todas!
    Miguel Angel Durán García

    Git no es complicado... ¡Si lo entiendes! ? ¿Sientes que sabes usarlo porque has memorizado todos los comandos que necesitas? ¡Pero no entiendes qué hace cada cosa y por qué! Así es normal que, cuando exista un problema, te cueste resolverlo. ¡Con este libro vas a entender de una vez por todas todo lo que es Git y cómo sacarle provecho!

  15. The Art of Concurrent Programming
    The Art of Concurrent Programming
    Locks, Atomics, Lock-Free Systems and High-Performance Concurrent Software
    Steve Publications

    Concurrency is where small mistakes become serious problems. This practical guide takes you from hardware and memory models to locks, atomics and lock-free algorithms, with a focus on building fast, reliable systems that hold up under real production workloads.