Willian Molinari's Blog
June 9, 2022
Review of Speed Up Your Python with Rust: Optimize Python performance by creating Python pip modules in Rust with PyO3
Book: Speed Up Your Python with Rust: Optimize Python performance by creating Python pip modules in Rust with PyO3 by Maxwell Flitton. Rating: ������������������.I got this book from Packt in an exchange for an honest review, so here it is.It’s not news to anyone that I’m a big fan of the Rust programming language. I’ve organized conferences, did the initial work to contribute to the compiler, Organize local meetups in my city, and even have my own book on how to start with Rust (in pt-BR).
December 4, 2021
Review of Brave New World
Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Rating: ������������������������.People usually mention Brave New World along with 1984, so I had this one in my list for a long time now. Now that I read it, I can totally understand why both books are “related”, even with complete different plots.Brave New World is about a dystopian future where humans are created to be happy. Things are engineered, so people will not feel unhappy and stability of the society as a whole is maintained.
November 22, 2021
Review of How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Book: How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion by Derek Sivers. Rating: ���������������������.Another great book. I really like the content Derek produces on his blog and books. It’s usually dense and full of meaning, there are almost no fillers.The proposal here is cool: there are many ways to live, you don’t have to choose one, you can pick many! All of them are valid ways to live a meaningful life.
September 27, 2021
Review of Software Engineering at Google
Book: Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters. Rating: ������������������������.It was a great book to read. It’s not the kind of book you read and start applyind stuff at your current job. We all must remember we’re not Google, and many things mentioned there are great, but only applies to their context.With that said, I quite enjoyed the book. I was curious about Google’s structure, and it’s mind-blowing the amount of problems specific to that scale.
August 25, 2021
How to read Tolkien, in my experience
I’m a huge fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, and It’s not the first time friends ask me about how to read Tolkien books. I even discussed this on Twitter because of some misconceptions people have about some of his book. To make things clear, I decided to write this with my opinion on the topic.Do not pick a book at random Tolkien has a long list of published books, some of them he published in life, but most of them were published postmortem, edited by his son Christopher Tolkien.
August 24, 2021
Review of The Dark Tower Book Series
Last month I finished the final book I wanted to read about The Dark Tower Series. I wrote reviews for all books, but I also want to write one single post about the story as a whole.I will try to not write spoilers here, especially for the main plot, but I may touch some points that I feel are quite interesting and you may want to experience yourself, especially in the Song of Susannah, so be warned.
August 23, 2021
Review of The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight
Book: The Sleep Lady’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep without Leaving Them to Cry-it-Out by Kim West. Rating: ������������������������.This is not a book I read because I was excited to read it. It’s a book I read to make my nights less bad and try to understand how to improve the life with babies. I read this after a friend mentioned it had sections on how to deal with multiples.
August 16, 2021
Review of Polished Ruby Programming
Book: Polished Ruby Programming: Build better software with more intuitive, maintainable, scalable, and high-performance Ruby code by Jeremy Evans. Rating: ������������������������.I got a contact from Packtpub about this book. The deal was to receive the book for free in exchange for an honest review. Here I am, just finished the book and will write about it.The book is quite good, there’s a lot of good information there, and I would totally recommend to someone investing in Ruby.
July 8, 2021
Review of The Little Sisters of Eluria (The Dark Tower, #0.5)
Book: The Little Sisters of Eluria (The Dark Tower, #0.5) by Stephen King. Rating: ������������������������.It’s a fun story for those who are into the Dark Tower series. It’s a short story actually, and brings a bit more about Roland’s early adventures, happening a bit before “The Gunslinger”.It doesn’t add much to the whole story other than just showing a bit more of a random place in the Mid-World, but it’s still an enjoyable story.
July 6, 2021
Review of The Wind Through the Keyhole
Book: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King. Rating: ������������������.I wish I have read this book in chronological order. The book is not bad, but reading it right after finishing the series just because it was released afterwards was not a good call. On the other hand, I’m wondering if I would have enough motivation to continue reading the series if I read this book right after book 4.
