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Emacs for Goodness' Sake
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The Practical Extraction and Reporting Language in 2025
If you have to learn Vim, do it well.
Django and FastAPI are just fancy callables. This book strips away the magic, shows you exactly what's happening under the hood, and teaches you to build Python web apps from first principles — synchronous with WSGI, async with ASGI. Know your tools. Really know them.
Blockchain isn't the only way to reach consensus. A tour of the BFT algorithms that power databases, distributed systems, and permissioned networks — Paxos, Raft, PBFT, HotStuff, Viewstamped Replication. Real tradeoffs, real math, no hype.
Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake — real tradeoffs, real math, no hype. A patient engineer's tour of how blockchains actually work.
Paxos, Raft, PBFT, Viewstamped Replication, and more — compared and contrasted with brutal honesty. Covers failure models, FLP impossibility, classic and modern consensus protocols, Byzantine fault tolerance, and when to use what. Stop copying what Kafka does and actually understand the tradeoffs.