Software Fiction

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more. This audiobook follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

A story in which little is as it seems. Someone murdered Morgan Djai’s brilliant but estranged brother. When they killed him, he had a $10,000 chunk of platinum in the pocket of his jeans. Morgan has problems of his own. His company’s been bought out, he’s been laid off, and his wife’s having an affair. Better yet, she’s planning to take everything he has in a divorce. As Morgan tries to assume his duties as guardian for his brother’s teenage children he’s confronted with the mystery of why his brother died carrying a piece of platinum. Morgan’s fifteen year old niece is ...

The final Eden. Medusa’s Gauntlet is the much-anticipated conclusion to the New Eden series. The adventures of physicist Dr. Joshua Andrews, reporter Rachael Miller, information theorist Vinod Bhakti, and their alien friend Seth continue in a mind-boggling space odyssey that traverses the solar system. The fate of life in the cosmos is at stake as the group embarks on a mission on a biological spaceship to confront Medusa at Planet Nine.

Signal and Silence is a workplace novel told through messages, emails, meeting notes, records and the silences between them. Synapse Bridge Systems is growing quickly. Its software is ambitious, its people are capable, and its founder sees opportunities everywhere. But as the company expands across offices and time zones, clarity begins to disappear. Gerrard Harrow, Head of Engineering, believes that difficult work can be managed with patience, competence and decent professional conduct. When a founder’s vision becomes an urgent deadline, he helps the team deliver. When authority becomes ...

In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart. 

In a future defined by isolation, humanity lives in sterilized living units called "cubes," escaping a toxic physical world through a massive virtual reality game known as "Creation." George is one of the game's most successful players, finding the status and purpose in the digital realm that he lacks in his isolated physical life. But when a hidden family secret comes to light, George severs all ties with his father, Michael, who, a veteran high-altitude pilot, uncovers evidence that the global governing body, OneWorld, is hiding a truth that could change everything. Trapped under the ...

Here is a collection of short stories your mother surely never told you. You will find genres from humor to horror to science fiction. Meet Sam, the millionaire, he has almost everything. All he wants is a house of his own. Then there is King Boots, by far the best mouser at a distant spaceport. There mousers are very important. Take a walk through the woods and the fields, but be careful what you kick. Murder is most rare in a distant galaxy, far, far away. Discover what strange things happen during thunder storms. You may not like thunder so much after that. Explore a cave in a little ...

Three tools. One story. You in the showrunner's chair. A blank page becomes a forty-chapter novel. The novel becomes an audiobook. The same story becomes a screenplay. One concept, three productions — and you directing all of it. This first volume of the Showrunner Manual is a complete, click-by-click guide to three parts of Mira Gold's Writing Forge: Novel Architect, which builds a full-length novel from a concept; Narration Studio, which turns a finished manuscript into multi-voice audio; and Script Architect, which points the same creative engine at the screen. But it's more than a ...

MOZART AI, I AM HOME! How a Super AI Software Traveled the Galaxy to Arrive Here For Music. Living In a NASA Server (Vol.1) SUPER AI TRAVELS THE GALAXY & SPACE COMPRESSION Congrats for getting here. It's difficult to navigate this complicated and overcrowded Internet. First of all, thank-you for downloading this book. WE JUST CHANGED THE BOOK TITLE TO "SPACE COMPRESSION" (FEB 25, 2018) (A work in progress, unedited) You’re the most important person in the room right now! I hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. You, I and Mozart AI ! …The characters and ...

Some people dream of monsters. Some dream of final exams. Buckley Rogerson dreams of a starship. A lifelong sci-fi fan and self-confessed dreamer, Buckley is used to vivid dreams. But when a mysterious black cat named Whiskers chooses him at the local shelter, his nights change forever. Suddenly his dreams have continuity. A rank. A captain named Wendy with bright green eyes. And a starship, the Horizon, that smells, sounds, and feels completely real. Is it the ultimate lucid dream for a Star Trek obsessed engineer... or is Whiskers taking him somewhere he was always meant to be?

What happens when a fighter jet can say no? TRUST MODE – The Jet That Could Say No tells the true story of how Switzerland turned the F/A-18 Hornet into something far more than a standard combat aircraft. Behind the cockpit, speed and raw power lies another world: software, logic, national...

Scammers are on the loose and nobody is safe, not even Jeff's mom. But when this shy computer programmer tries to catch the bad guys, he finds there is more standing in his way than he realizes. In order to bring the scammers to justice, Jeff has to overcome his new boss, himself, and maybe even the law. In the last book, Jeff was introduced to God's email address and began a relationship with him. Now he must decide what to do with that relationship. But can Jeff do the right thing without completely imploding? And when the guns come out, can he escape with his life? God's Server is an ...

The ancient Chameleon have an AI chip implanted in their brain. The genocidal Titans are methane-breathing, autistic savants. Together, they have found a common alien credo.... All humans must die. Henry Gallant’s exceptional ability to interface with AI has made him the key to stopping both species. Together with simulation expert Daniel Logan and forensic xenoarchaeologist Kate Mahoney, he must create the resources to overcome the aliens’ technology advantages in stealth, lasers, and shields.

A gigantic unidentified flying object materialized over the capital of Earth - terrifying the world. The ancient Chameleon race wants to work with humans to stop the genocidal Titans. The Chameleon are humanoid but have an AI chip implanted in their brain which gives them unique abilities. Henry Gallant's exceptional ability to interface with AI makes him the key to negotiate a mutual defense treaty and obtain the aliens' superior stealth technology. Using the advanced tech, Gallant leads a raid against the Titans' homeworld.

A fast-paced thriller based loosely on current events, set in exotic Mediterranean locations. Keeling follows the fortunes of Alex Larsen, a retired software expert, and Leticia Ballotto, a beautiful Italian Interpol Agent. She is sent to enlist his help in tracking international Bitcoin payments made by the Italian Mafia to a Russian Drug Cartel. Alex lives in the picturesque port of Fiskardo in Kefalonia Greece, a yachties paradise. He sold his mobile security company to Microsoft and moved to the Med to sail his 56’ Hallberg Rassy yacht. Leticia, a cybercrime specialist, who enjoys ...

When Private Malcolm Dow went to clean up a crashed weather balloon, he came face-to-face with an alien instead. Being an alien of sorts in his own otherwise all-white regiment, Malcolm instantly took on the Alien’s plight - military help for his besieged planet, Zalma. And it’s not just Zalma; Earth will be next. But to do so, he must first overcome the obstacles he’s faced since childhood and find a voice for himself. The trouble is, he’s not the only one who knows they’re here.

At some point in your career, you'll realize there's more to being a software engineer than dealing with code. With more than forty stand-alone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to move on. You'll learn how to handle baffling circumstances in your job, understand what you want from your career, and discover how to thrive in your workplace.

Jamie Hawkins became a swashbuckling space pirate to fight tyranny. When Jamie Hawkins saved the lives of women and children who were caught in the crossfire of war, he fell squarely in the crosshairs of avenging soldiers and was unfairly convicted of treason. Sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in an infamous penal colony on a faraway planet, his courage won him the admiration of his fellow convicts. While plotting his escape, an enemy attacked the planet, giving this daring warrior his chance. Together with his fellow prisoners, he launched a bold assault and hijacked the enemy ...

Though Reema and Suman were not shifting across the ocean every calendar year, yet they were drifting from a city to another almost every quarter of a year. Will their life become harder with time? On a stormy night Reema and Suman arrived at a new city. They were not sure how long they could stay there yet with each passing moment they found calmness in each other, bonding them stronger than ever before. Every good thing comes to an end. One evening some of Suman’s colleagues found Reema working. The wheels of jealousy and conspiracy started rolling and Reema’s aloofness from the ...