Building a real backend used to mean hiring a backend engineer, standing up a database server, wiring authentication, configuring file storage, and writing an API layer nobody would ever see. It was slow, expensive, and easy to get wrong, and most of it was plumbing. Today something has changed. AI coding agents can write code, run commands, and hold a sustained conversation about architecture, and Supabase gives you the open-source backend built on PostgreSQL that makes the partnership wo...

You picked up this book because you are tired of 2 completely contradictory sets of answers. The real estate blogs tell you renting is throwing money away and that you must buy before prices rise further, while the finance forums tell you buying is a trap and that your down payment belongs in the stock market. You are educated, financially literate, and utterly confused, and that confusion is the reason this book exists. You share the conviction this book honors: that the answer depends on...

Most machine learning books teach algorithms in order and abandon you the moment your model leaves the notebook. This one works the other way. You build 3 complete systems, from raw messy data to deployed APIs, learning each concept exactly when you need it. You will build a churn prediction service with Scikit-Learn, a plant disease classifier with Keras, and a support ticket classifier with PyTorch using transformer models from HuggingFace. You finish with 3 working projects and the judg...

Seventeen Authors Share Advice for Crafting, Publishing and Promoting Your WritingAsk the Authors is the ultimate writer's reference, with tips and advice on craft, publishing and marketing. Seventeen authors share what works for them and offer their keys to success in traditional publishing, hybrid, and indie. You'll learn industry wisdom from Lilly Rayman, Mark & Kym Todd, RA Winter, Tim Baker, Margareth Stewart, Tom Johnson, Janet Garber, Arthur Rosch, ...

If you have picked up this book, you already know the central challenge of gluten-free cooking. Dinner, that daily question that every household faces, becomes infinitely more complicated when gluten is off the table. You cannot order pizza on the way home or grab a quick sandwich from the deli counter. You cannot rely on the boxed pasta dinner that your kids have always loved. Every single meal requires thought, planning, and a level of effort that can feel exhausting by the end of a long...

Lieutenant Commander Jason Farmer is not looking forward to reporting aboard the Topeka, a US Navy ship which carries 20 Officers and 400 enlisted men and has the capability to carry 400 marines and deliver them to any hot spot in the world. Jason had a run-in with the commanding officer when he was a Lieutenant and the C.O. was a Commander. Jason is now a Lieutenant Commander and the C.O. is a Captain and in command of the Topeka. Jason reports aboard as the Operations officer and the Cap...

Behind every software idea sits a door that used to lock shut at the question: do you know how to code? This book hands you the key. No-Code to Pro-Code Bridge is a field guide for people who have never written code and are tired of waiting for a technical co-founder, a contractor, or permission. It turns you into someone who can direct an AI to build real, deployed software and spot bad output.Tom Johnson takes you from the mental models that separate shippers from dreamers to the...

In 1407, the sea rages. Storms, floods and erosion are wrecking towns, harbours and livelihoods all along the Suffolk coast. Yet at this moment of upheaval, the villagers of Walberswick band together to build a monumental flint church, a vessel for a thousand souls that would take a century to complete and stand intact for just a century more.Drawing on exceptionally rich and unexplored sources, Walberswick plunges readers into this strange, vanished world. It takes us alo...

“Compliments of the Domino Lady!” In order to avenger the murder of his father, socialite Ellen Patrick donned a domino mask and evening dress and packed a .45. Running for six rare stories in mid-1930s pulp magazines, these stories remain elusive. Now, these are collected in an affordable edition, complemented by an all-new Afterword by pulp historian Tom Johnson.

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson’s storied career in public service and journalism that began as a reporter at the Macon Telegraph in Georgia spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was an eyewitness to pa...

“When Cal Thomas speaks, I try to listen. I’ve been listening to him for a LONG time!" — Mike Huckabee“For more than 40 years, Cal Thomas had a front row seat to some of America's most contentious public policy debates. And for more than four decades, Cal wielded his pen to speak truth to power and to advance traditional conservative values. Cal's stories and tales from that front row—as the watchman—are sure to entertain!” — Mike Pence"A new bestselling page-turner." —

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic musical moments, the movie has not received the same attention as other musicals from MGM’s storied dream factory. In C’mon, Get Happy: The Making of “Summer Stock,” authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture, from start to fin...