The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy by Mark Schwartz. Shares an interesting view on bureaucracy, how it is all around us an used heavily in our line of work.
That would be fun. Or have a program basically be a key logger and suggest words for you daily or something so it grows the more you use it. Maybe it could have a training mode too to ensure abbreviations don’t fall out of your mind.
If you're looking for a fun hardware project I'd recommend a buddy's company. As they don't have a HN account, here is their plug:
Exclosure is building a worldwide networks of space monitoring telescopes. We believe that space is for everyone, and that monitoring is the first step in keeping the outer space environment sustainable. We are actively seeking locations to host our observatories, and can compensate hosts with good viewing locations:
https://www.exclosure.io/hosts
I found the first few chapters of the google SRE book a good primer, in particular Part 2[0]. The end of each chapter has cited sources which allowed me to dive deeper.
Other paid constraint solvers are Gurobi and IBM’s Cplex. I only have experience with the later - scheduling giant chemistry and biology experiences into a robotic factory - there are a ton of foot guns in this space.
My experience: it’s fine when using docker to run applications; painfully slow for a containerized development environments that want to share the file system with the host.
Lots to do to combat this, like: not sharing the volume with the host (vscode dev containers recommends this)
With plenty of dark patterns by rich coastal homeowners to obscure access. Think GDPR/ePrivacy directive cookie consent practices, but for beach access.