Insight takes time. Books still create space for it.

My household, overrun by the grandkids, is more agile/lean than your team. And that's mainly due to my wonderful wife. I observe: - Frequent check-ins: "How are you doing? Is there anything I can do to make your life easier?" - Frequent evaluation: "Is this working? How can it be better?"

Insight: what NON-technical books got inside your head this year? Pragdave, on why we still need books: "Insight isn’t about accumulating facts; it’s about seeing relationships. Books get inside your head and make that happen." media.pragprog.com/n...

Had a great time chatting with John Ainsworth about 30+ years of teaching: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rrC...

Want to write better and faster? Last Call for my Q1 2026 Writing Workshop www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/01/... #Writing

A Year In Review: Flask in 2025 blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/a-year-...

How Many Ways Can You Prompt Your Starting Energy? createadaptablelife.com/2026/01/how-... #QuestionOfTheWeek #Start

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Funx Optics: Declare your order. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/12... #elixirlang

Plus: Did you know that Pragmatic has a Redbubble swag store? They've temporarily lowered prices as far as Redbuble will let them and added new designs with the new Pickaxe cover and a collection of all six Pickaxe covers: www.redbubble.com/people/PragP...

Ruby at 30 - It's Christmas, and that means a Ruby release! This year's big - Ruby 4! The pickaxe has been there for most of those 30 years - evolving right along with the language. This year, a brand new edition just out in Beta. Celebrate! pragprog.com/titles/...

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New Beta from @ramtop.bsky.social Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding Coding with AI Assistants - a more natural, powerful, safe, and genuinely productive way. How do the best developers amplify their abilities with AI? It’s not magic. It’s process. pragprog.com/titles/...

Thanks to buyers over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the save50 promo, and BFCM. Great to see High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails back in the best sellers list! @pragprog.com

Check out Pragprog author (Designed for Use, Second Edition) Lukas Mathis's delightful blog "Ignore The Code". A design guru, Lukas has interesting takes on everything from the challenges of tech publishing, to Daylight Savings Time to "a whole-ass book just on tmux"... ignco.de/811

New in Beta - "Debugging is the Tardis of Software Practices… ­…because there's a lot more on the inside that is apparent from the outside. ­I thought I knew a lot about debugging. This book proved me wrong, and I'm a better developer for it." ~~PragDave pragprog.com/titles/...

Beta Update - Haskell Brain Teasers by Rebecca Skinner @cercerilla.bsky.social pragprog.com/titles/... Two complete new teasers since B3: * Field Theory * Non-functional Dependencies

I just figured out how to execute LiveView.JS commands from a JavaScript hook! This is useful for manipulating the UI directly from your LiveView. For example, here I'm closing a modal after a `handle_event/3` callback succeeded. #ElixirLang

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A new post in my series on the Ash Framework. This one explores the underlying mechanics of Ash validation and where Funx can help when checks need more structure or concurrency. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/11... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

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Erica Sadun's "Numerical Brain Teasers" pragprog.com/titles/esbra... This is not like the other brain teasers books but instead is a collection of fun number puzzles. I reviewed this a few years back and loved it, so I broke it out again lately. Still love it.

OK, before I just list more Brain Teasers books, I'm just going to share the page on the site. They're all fun. pragprog.com/categories/b...

@sam-cooper.bsky.social - "Kotlin Brain Teasers" pragprog.com/titles/kotli... Another tech review, and this one was right in my wheelhouse. I've done a lot of work with Kotlin and I was still learning new things throughout the book. The "Brain Teasers" series are always fun and this is my favorite.

There are so many good Prags titles, but I've got a few that come to mind that I want to call out. @joemasilotti.com - "Hotwire Native for Rails Developers" pragprog.com/titles/jmnat... I tech reviewed this book and I was really impressed with Joe's work on it, even not being a Ruby guy.

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Strong recommendaction for Eloquent Ruby pragprog.com/titles/eruby....

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When the work of our authors intersects, it's amazing. Such a privilege to provide a platform for all these talented, passionate humans. And, their books are included in our Black Friday, 50% off sale!

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We work hard to live up to this tradition every day. 🖥️ news.ycombinator.com 📑 www.ahalbert.com/tec... 📓 pragprog.com/titles/...

Our latest newsletter - The Human Touch @pragdave, on why human created content is more important than ever. With a 40% off weekend sale (code: TomSwift) on AI titles, incl. Jay Wengrow's new Beta: A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering media.pragprog.com/n... 🔗s ⬇️

Beta Update - Haskell Brain Teasers by Rebecca Skinner pragprog.com/titles/... B3.0 Release Notes: * Additional puzzle content, and there's been a bit of a reorganization of sections.*

It's now official that the next version of Ruby is going to be 4.0 github.com/ruby/ruby/co... We're working to get a beta of Programming Ruby 4.0 available about the time of the release with up-to-the minute changes for the new version.