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Make It Make Sense

The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties

by Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston ...

Shit You Should Care About was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one.MAKE IT MAKE SENSE is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal ... Read more

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Shit You Should Care About was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one.MAKE IT MAKE SENSE is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal
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Practical Vim

Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

by Drew Neil ...

Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved bestseller has been revised and ... Read more

£12.95

Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved bestseller has been revised and
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Designing AI Interfaces

Design Principles for Creative and Autonomous AI

by Louise Macfadyen ...

Designing AI Interfaces is a practical, design-first guide for product teams building with large language models and autonomous systems.As artificial intelligence becomes central to modern product design, UX professionals must adapt their toolkits to meet new demands. In Designing AI Interfaces, senior product designer Louise Macfadyen offers a timely, practice-oriented guide for building ... Read more

£35.36

Designing AI Interfaces is a practical, design-first guide for product teams building with large language models and autonomous systems.As artificial intelligence becomes central to modern product design, UX professionals must adapt their toolkits to meet new demands. In Designing AI Interfaces, senior product designer Louise Macfadyen offers a timely, practice-oriented guide for building
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Coders

Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World

by Clive Thompson ...

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code – and coders are the ones who built it for us.In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers an illuminating reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, asking who they are, how they think, and what should give us pause. Along the way, Thompson ponders the morality ... Read more

£6.99

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code – and coders are the ones who built it for us.In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers an illuminating reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, asking who they are, how they think, and what should give us pause. Along the way, Thompson ponders the morality
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SVG Animations

From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation

by Sarah Drasner ...

SVG is extremely powerful, with its reduced HTTP requests and crispness on any display. It becomes increasingly more interesting as you explore its capabilities for responsive animation and performance boons. When you animate SVG, you must be aware of normal image traits like composition, color, implementation, and optimization. But when you animate, it increases the complexity of each of these ... Read more

£13.67

SVG is extremely powerful, with its reduced HTTP requests and crispness on any display. It becomes increasingly more interesting as you explore its capabilities for responsive animation and performance boons. When you animate SVG, you must be aware of normal image traits like composition, color, implementation, and optimization. But when you animate, it increases the complexity of each of these
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The Influencers

A gripping crime novel with an unforgettable ending

by S. V. Leonard ...

A filter can hide all manner of secretsWhen budding true crime blogger Maggie Shaw is invited to the Influencer of the Year awards, it feels like everything is finally falling into place. The party is held on a glamorous yacht and presents the perfect opportunity for Maggie to network the first step towards achieving her dream of turning her hobby into a full-time job. But by the end of the night, ... Read more

£2.99

A filter can hide all manner of secretsWhen budding true crime blogger Maggie Shaw is invited to the Influencer of the Year awards, it feels like everything is finally falling into place. The party is held on a glamorous yacht and presents the perfect opportunity for Maggie to network the first step towards achieving her dream of turning her hobby into a full-time job. But by the end of the night,
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Html Basics: Learn Html Coding for Beginners

by Chittaranjan Dhurat ...

DescriptionLearn Html fundamentals with simple and easy to understand language.This book is for absolute Beginners. ... Read more

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DescriptionLearn Html fundamentals with simple and easy to understand language.This book is for absolute Beginners.
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Shame on You

The addictive psychological thriller that will make you question everything you read online

by Amy Heydenrych ...

SURELY WE ALL LIE A LITTLE BIT ONLINE . . . DON'T WE?The gripping psychological thriller that explores the darker side of social media, perfect for fans of THE GIRL BEFORE and FRIEND REQUEST.Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself?Have you ever lied about who you are to get more likes?Have you ever followed someone online who you think is perfect?Meet Holly.Social media sensation. The face of... ... Read more

£3.05

SURELY WE ALL LIE A LITTLE BIT ONLINE . . . DON'T WE?The gripping psychological thriller that explores the darker side of social media, perfect for fans of THE GIRL BEFORE and FRIEND REQUEST.Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself?Have you ever lied about who you are to get more likes?Have you ever followed someone online who you think is perfect?Meet Holly.Social media sensation. The face of...
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug ...

Series series Voices That Matter
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.Now Steve returns with fresh ... Read more

£14.30

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.Now Steve returns with fresh
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Everything is Fine

The funny, feel-good and uplifting page-turner you won't be able to put down!

by Gillian Harvey ...

'Just the escapism we need right now' EVENING STANDARD'Hilarious and relatable' WOMAN'A perfect weekend read' GRAZIAJessica Bradley has it all: the perfect boyfriend; influential healthy-eating blog; successful PR company and wonderful daughter, Anna. Or at least that is what her thousands of followers believe.The truth is, her boyfriend just broke up with her in four words on a post-it; her zest ... Read more

£2.99

'Just the escapism we need right now' EVENING STANDARD'Hilarious and relatable' WOMAN'A perfect weekend read' GRAZIAJessica Bradley has it all: the perfect boyfriend; influential healthy-eating blog; successful PR company and wonderful daughter, Anna. Or at least that is what her thousands of followers believe.The truth is, her boyfriend just broke up with her in four words on a post-it; her zest
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Fluent Python

Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming

by Luciano Ramalho ...

Don't waste time bending Python to fit patterns you've learned in other languages. Python's simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but often this means you aren't using everything the language has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas.Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features ... Read more

£31.13

Don't waste time bending Python to fit patterns you've learned in other languages. Python's simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but often this means you aren't using everything the language has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas.Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features
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Escaping the Build Trap

How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

by Melissa Perri ...

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs.In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can ... Read more

£15.56

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs.In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can
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Learning Go

An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming

by Jon Bodner ...

Go has rapidly become the preferred language for building web services. Plenty of tutorials are available to teach Go's syntax to developers with experience in other programming languages, but tutorials aren't enough. They don't teach Go's idioms, so developers end up recreating patterns that don't make sense in a Go context. This practical guide provides the essential background you need to write ... Read more

£26.63

Go has rapidly become the preferred language for building web services. Plenty of tutorials are available to teach Go's syntax to developers with experience in other programming languages, but tutorials aren't enough. They don't teach Go's idioms, so developers end up recreating patterns that don't make sense in a Go context. This practical guide provides the essential background you need to write
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Hatching Twitter

A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal

by Nick Bilton ...

'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORYSince 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before.In his revelatory new book, New ... Read more

£4.99

'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORYSince 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before.In his revelatory new book, New
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Kubernetes: Up and Running

Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

by Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, Lachlan Evenson ...

In just five years, Kubernetes has radically changed the way developers and ops personnel build, deploy, and maintain applications in the cloud. With this book's updated third edition, you'll learn how this popular container orchestrator can help your company achieve new levels of velocity, agility, reliability, and efficiency--whether you're new to distributed systems or have been deploying cloud ... Read more

£26.63

In just five years, Kubernetes has radically changed the way developers and ops personnel build, deploy, and maintain applications in the cloud. With this book's updated third edition, you'll learn how this popular container orchestrator can help your company achieve new levels of velocity, agility, reliability, and efficiency--whether you're new to distributed systems or have been deploying cloud
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UX Design Process

by Smashing Magazine ...

Series series Smashing eBooks
UX design isn’t a new field. But sometimes new approaches lead to new perspectives. In this book, you’ll learn how lean UX has made the whole discipline more approachable and attractive to startups, and you’ll see that UX issues aren’t just a quick fix, but should also address big-pic- ture issues. Sometimes, the solution to a problem is just to fix a broken UX. At other times, you need to ... Read more

£3.51

UX design isn’t a new field. But sometimes new approaches lead to new perspectives. In this book, you’ll learn how lean UX has made the whole discipline more approachable and attractive to startups, and you’ll see that UX issues aren’t just a quick fix, but should also address big-pic- ture issues. Sometimes, the solution to a problem is just to fix a broken UX. At other times, you need to
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Launch a WordPress.com Blog In A Day For Dummies

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson ...

Series Book 48 - In A Day For Dummies
Let this 96-page e-book show you the quick and easy way to launch your blogWordPress is among the most popular blogging platforms. If you're ready to start your WordPress blog, this handy e-book will get you going. It gets right to the point, showing you how to create a WordPress.com account, navigate WordPress.com and use the Dashboard, customize blog settings, use themes, organize your blog, and ... Read more

£3.99

Let this 96-page e-book show you the quick and easy way to launch your blogWordPress is among the most popular blogging platforms. If you're ready to start your WordPress blog, this handy e-book will get you going. It gets right to the point, showing you how to create a WordPress.com account, navigate WordPress.com and use the Dashboard, customize blog settings, use themes, organize your blog, and
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Monolith to Microservices

Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

by Sam Newman ...

How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman’s extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.With many illustrative examples, insightful migration patterns, and a ... Read more

£22.40

How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman’s extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.With many illustrative examples, insightful migration patterns, and a
... Read more
Terraform: Up and Running

Writing Infrastructure as Code

by Yevgeniy Brikman ...

Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on third edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for version 1.0 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform.Gruntwork cofounder ... Read more

£31.13

Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on third edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for version 1.0 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform.Gruntwork cofounder
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Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

by Mark Summerfield ...

A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3’s features a... ... Read more

£18.80

A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3’s features a...
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Python: Quick Reference - Cheat Sheet - Print & Laminate

Digital Print & Laminate

by Kaitlyn Chick ...

This Quick Reference Sheet is designed for new and experienced programmers alike. If you want a cheat sheet for your laptop, Kindle or smart phone, or if you would simply like to print out and laminate this is the ideal reference chart for you. ... Read more

£1.18

This Quick Reference Sheet is designed for new and experienced programmers alike. If you want a cheat sheet for your laptop, Kindle or smart phone, or if you would simply like to print out and laminate this is the ideal reference chart for you.
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Android 4 Development: From Eclipse to End User

by Jason Suptic ...

Are you ready to create your first Android App now? If so, this book is for you. Whether you are a veteran programmer or a beginner, this book will help you learn Android development by examples, pictures, and explanations. This is an introduction to both Eclipse and Android Development Tools (ADT) through building a complete app. Windows™ is the operating system used during the writing of this ... Read more

£2.69

Are you ready to create your first Android App now? If so, this book is for you. Whether you are a veteran programmer or a beginner, this book will help you learn Android development by examples, pictures, and explanations. This is an introduction to both Eclipse and Android Development Tools (ADT) through building a complete app. Windows™ is the operating system used during the writing of this
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Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS

by Pawel Kozlowski, Peter Bacon Darwin ...

This book will be a step-by-step guide showing the readers how to build a complete web app with AngularJS. This book will be most useful to developers who are evaluating or have decided to use AngularJS for a real life project. You should have some prior exposure to AngularJS, at least through basic examples. We assume that youve got working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. ... Read more

£11.06 or Free with Kobo Plus

This book will be a step-by-step guide showing the readers how to build a complete web app with AngularJS. This book will be most useful to developers who are evaluating or have decided to use AngularJS for a real life project. You should have some prior exposure to AngularJS, at least through basic examples. We assume that youve got working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Dreamweaver CS6 For Dummies

by Janine Warner ...

Start creating websites that wow with Dreamweaver CS6!Powerful yet easy to master, Dreamweaver is the dominant professional web development tool. Web design expert Janine Warner has updated her bestselling Dreamweaver For Dummies guide for Dreamweaver CS6 and walks you through the essential steps to building the website you’ve always wanted. Both beginning and intermediate web developers will get ... Read more

£16.99

Start creating websites that wow with Dreamweaver CS6!Powerful yet easy to master, Dreamweaver is the dominant professional web development tool. Web design expert Janine Warner has updated her bestselling Dreamweaver For Dummies guide for Dreamweaver CS6 and walks you through the essential steps to building the website you’ve always wanted. Both beginning and intermediate web developers will get
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