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Steve Love

@stevelove.bsky.social
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Author and programmer, amateur guitar player. Find me elsewhere at arventech.com

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Emil Privér @priver.dev · 01/10/2025
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If you fancy a bit of a C# workout, maybe 21 puzzles will help pragprog.com/titles/cshar... Get a 50% discount in the @pragprog.com sale on this and all their other titles until December 1st. Use the coupon code "save50" at checkout. #csharp #dotnet #brainteasers
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C# Brain Teasers
Test your C# knowledge and expand your understanding of the language with 25 common and not-so-common puzzles.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of “Go Faster”
Things that will make your dev team take longer to deliver worse software:1. Adding more people to the team2. Making them work longer hours3. Cutting down on work that “slows them down”…
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"Ah, but Jason, we couldn't abstract our application's infrastructure because..." Because? "Because we riddled the code with direct references to it." Thank you.
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Manning Publications @manning.com · 18/10/2025
@fbuontempo.bsky.social knows the importance of knowing how to teach well (which she does). & that's on top of knowing c++. hear her talk about it, her book, & upcoming keynote at @meetingcpp.bsky.social: hubs.la/Q03Pdcbg0 her book is 45% off with code meetingcpp25 thru 11/23: hubs.la/Q03Pdc6S0
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 19/09/2025
Good news! Our flash sale is extended. 45% off all PragProg titles (except The Pragmatic Programmer) Promo code: flashsale Ends Sept 22, 9:00 CDT -> pragprog.com
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 18/09/2025
What programming language makes Rust look like JavaScript and stops after one error? Learn about it from @kevlin.bsky.social.
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The Most Strict #ProgrammingLanguage @KevlinHenney Has Ever Used: #occam
Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #KevlinHenney #occam2 #KevlinHenneyScreen #ProgrammingLanguages #TIOBEIndex #RedMonk #FutureProgrammingLanguages #Fortran #Fibonacci…
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PyCon UK @pyconuk.org · 16/09/2025
💻 🛠️ ⭐️ Workshop spotlight! ⭐️💻 🛠️ 💻 🛠️ Simply the best: An introduction to machine learning with evolutionary algorithms by @fbuontempo.bsky.social 💡 More info: buff.ly/QzrNfB0 🎟️ Grab your ticket! buff.ly/tqGrNOb #PyConUK2025 #Python
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Pragmatic Bookshelf @pragprog.com is running a 48-hour flash sale. Get 45% off almost everything with promo code flashsale. pragprog.com September 18–20 #programming #pragprog #techbooks #devlife #cspuzzles
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Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers
We improve the lives of professional developers. We create timely, practical books on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you learn and practice your craft, and accelerate your career. Come learn ...
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... Any old-school gamers among my friends here who remember Deus Ex? I put a guide together for the Revision Mod - a modern re-imagining of the original. If you're not on Steam do not despair: arventech.com/theplayer/dx...
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Steam Community :: Guide :: Deus Ex - Revision: Immersive Screenshot Walkthrough
This is a text and screenshot walkthrough of the full game at "Realistic" difficulty. Played as a pacifist, following the guide will introduce you to the full glory of the Revision mod for D
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 29/07/2025
Reviewed in the latest issue of CVu - the members' journal of ACCU C# Brain Teasers, by Steve Love accu.org/bookreviews... @stevelove.bsky.social
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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You can find my foreword to @stevelove.bsky.social's new book, C# Brain Teasers, on my blog kevlinhenney.medium.com/exercising-y...
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ExerC#ising Your Mind
Foreword to C# Brain Teasers by Steve Love
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 14/07/2025
Being there for an author's first time holding their brand new book - always wonderful!! Congratulation, Steve Love - we're so proud to have you here! Steve's new book: C# Brain Teasers pragprog.com/titles/... @stevelove.bsky.social
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thanks @pragprog.com for Willow's copy of my book (and mine, of course). Get yours at pragprog.com/titles/cshar... or other good bookshops today.
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Meeting C++ @meetingcpp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Book of the Day: C++ Brain Teasers by Anders Schau Knatten meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cpp
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Anders Schau Knatten
C++ is famous for getting all the default behaviors wrong and for sometimes making demons fly out of your nose
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 05/05/2025
Last Day - Week 4, Spring Best Sellers Sale 40% Off with Code: 2025POLYGLOT at checkout Valid through May 6, 2025, only at Pragprog.com media.pragprog.com/n...
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 03/05/2025
media.pragprog.com/n... Cruising Along with Java by @venkats.bsky.social Clojure Brain Teasers by @alexmiller.bsky.social & @lambduhhh.bsky.social A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Vol 2 by Jay Wengrow C# Brain Teasers by @stevelove.bsky.social
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 02/05/2025
Spring Best Sellers Sale Week 4 The Pragmatic Polyglot 40% Off – This Week Only! Code: 2025POLYGLOT at checkout Titles on sale this week include - - C# Brain Teasers by @stevelove.bsky.social pragprog.com/titles/...
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My book C# Brain Teasers is featured in the @pragprog.com Spring Sale this week. Get 40% OFF with the code 2025POLYGLOT until May 7th. pragprog.com/titles/cshar...
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 29/04/2025
Our newest BrainTeasers title - for C# From @stevelove.bsky.social Now out of Beta and released into print medium.com/pragmatic...
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C# Brain Teasers
by Steve Love
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I'm proud to announce that my book C# Brain Teasers has now been released! 21 puzzles for C# programmers of all levels of experience joins the #brainteasers collection from @pragprog.com. pragprog.com/titles/cshar... #dotnet #csharp #brainteasers #exerciseyourmind
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C# Brain Teasers
Test your C# knowledge and expand your understanding of the language with 25 common and not-so-common puzzles.
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Premature Design Is Not Design open.substack.com/pub/pragdave...
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Premature Design Is Not Design
Resist the temptation to guess, and let the code tell you what it needs.
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#accuconf 2025 @fbuontempo.bsky.social talking about reinforcement learning
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Nice morning for a trip to Bristol for #accu2025
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 01/03/2025
Beta Update - C# Brain Teasers pragprog.com/titles/... by Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social B3.0 Release Notes: Production is complete. Now it's on to layout and the printer. Betas only available on pragprog.com Already purchased? Check your email for a download link.
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No Starch Press @nostarchpress.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Your reading list just got 30% better 📚 Take 30% off ALL books with code PREZDAY25. Sale ends Feb 19th! nostarch.com
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 17/02/2025
PragProg BestSellers This Week pragprog.com/best_sellers/ #1. Ash Framework #2 Hotwire Native for Rails Devs #3 Engineering Elixir Applications Congratulations: @sevensea.cat @zachdaniel.dev @joemasilotti.com Ellie Fairholm, Josep Giralt D'Lacoste and the rest of our amazing authors!
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If the anticipation for the new "C# Brain Teasers" book from @pragprog.com is too much, you can still get the Beta at a discount from their website at pragprog.com/titles/cshar... (it lacks Kevlin Henney's foreword @kevlin.bsky.social but may include bonus typos 😁) #csharp #dotnet #pragprog
C# Brain Teasers book crashing into a tiled floor
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Meeting C++ @meetingcpp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Book of the Day: Beautiful C++ by J. Guy Davidson and Kate Gregory meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cpp
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J. Guy Davidson, Kate Gregory
This book is a deep review of thirty of the Core Guidelines
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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The word queue is one all-important consonant followed by vowels that want to act like they matter.
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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Program with GUTs - Good Unit Tests Join me online for this 2-hour masterclass on Tuesday, 28th January, 11:00-13:00 GMT techcornwall.co.uk/training/pro...
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Program with GUTs Masterclass - Tech Cornwall
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
There's more to C# value types-structs and record structs-than just performance. Used well they can positively influence your design ideas in subtle ways. My book covers them in some detail. Currently part of a NoStarchPress Humble Bundle! : nostarch.com/c-type-system @nostarchpress.bsky.social
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The C# Type System
A comprehensive guide to effectively using modern C# to write better programs.
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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 09/12/2024
I'm not saying that AI-written books are becoming a problem on Amazon, but here is the first page of a new book on the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege.
The forweord to a history book that begins "I understand you're looking for a 3000-word foreword for your book that ...", obviously written by ChatGPT The cover of a book called THE SEIGE THAT SHOCKED BRITAIN - London's Iranian Embassy, 1980, by Diane Fairweather. The image is black and white and shows a figures in combat gear looking out of a window.
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Chris Petersen @cpetersen-cs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Really enjoyed this talk by @kevlin.bsky.social that explores, demystifies, and explains #TechnicalDebt in better ways in the context of software development and code bases. youtu.be/9iLxR1h2208?...
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Technical Neglect - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2024
YouTube video by NDC Conferences
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
C# continues to surprise me, even after over two decades of using it! In my latest blog I cast a critical eye over the 'required' keyword. moderncsharp.blogspot.com/2024/12/atte... #csharp #dotnet #csharppuzzles
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Attendance Required
One easily overlooked feature of C# is the required keyword for properties. Introduced in C# v11.0 with .NET v7.0, its purpose is to make ...
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Frances Buontempo @fbuontempo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I usually talk about #AI or #CPP, but I talk about testing too. I'm giving a talk about "Bridging the Gap with BDD" at OOP early next year www.oop-konferenz.de/en/tickets/r... Use code "OOP25_Buontempo" for a 15% discount (valid for any ticket type).
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Meeting C++ @meetingcpp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Book of the Day: Learn C++ by Example by Frances Buontempo meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cpp
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Frances Buontempo
This book is to help people get back up to speed if they lost track of recent changes in C++
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Margaret Eldridge @margeditor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Black Friday sale from PragProg continues. Pick up one of our just-for-fun programming titles at 40% savings with code turkeysale2024. youtu.be/Ec6WFZDsUnc Details in the article: medium.com/pragmatic-pr... #programming #pragprog #books #blackfridaysale @pragprog.com
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How hard can it really be?
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Frances Buontempo @fbuontempo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We played Pong
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 19/11/2024
It's Black Friday time at Pragprog Just use coupon code turkeysale2024 at checkout and take 40% off (ONLY at pragprog.com) Everything we publish is on sale... including Beta Books!
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 05/11/2024
C#‘s complexity means it has many dark corners to explore. This book shines a light into a few of those places to help you write better C# programs and more deeply understand how to use its features safely and to your advantage. Our newest Beta - C# Brain Teasers, from @stevelove.bsky.social
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
"C# is a safe language. It doesn't have undefined behaviour, like C++" Perhaps, but it still has plenty of surprises that will bite you on the unmentionables if you're not paying attention. My forthcoming book "C# Brain Teasers" from @pragprog.bsky.social showcases just a few....
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Now less than 1 month until I speak about Design Patterns and testing in C++ at @meetingcpp.bsky.social meetingcpp.com/mcpp/schedul... #contextswitch
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Steve Love - Testable By Design
Unit testing in modern C++ has some great tool support, but it's easy to forget how language features play their part in testability, and how designing code to be easy to test can be harder than it so...
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Nearly there! Joining the "Brain Teasers" collection from @pragprog.bsky.social, 21 puzzles for C# programmers, coming soon.
Steve Love - C# Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind
Cover art: a thought-bubble made of metal gears and wheels
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
No Starch Press have a new Humble Bundle including my book "The C# Type System". All titles in the bundle on offer for a limited time. www.humblebundle.com/books/learn-...
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Humble Tech Book Bundle: Learn You Some Code by No Starch
Now’s the time to learn to code! Master Python, Rust, C# & more with this bundle. Start your programming journey & help support the Python Software Foundation!
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Steve Love @stevelove.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Just returned from a week at OOP2024 in Munich (www.oop-konferenz.de/oop-2024/sta...) and met some great people. Some of them reminded me I should promote my book, so here goes. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676191...
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The C# Type System by Steve Love: 9781718501584 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Harness the power of the C# type system to write programs that are clearer, simpler, and more efficient. The type system is the foundation upon which all C# programs are built. The C# Type System...
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