Julia Evans
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Julia Evans is a software engineer and writer who creates Wizard Zines, a series of easy-to-read online magazines that explain technical software topics. Julia’s zines include “Linux Debugging Tools”, “Help! I Have A Manager!”, and recently “HTTP: Learn your browser’s language”.
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The Linux Programming Interface
A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
The Linux Programming Interface is the definitive guide to the Linux and UNIX programming interfacethe interface employed by nearly every application that runs on a Linux or UNIX system.In this authoritative work, Linux programming expert Michael Kerrisk provides detailed descriptions of the system calls and library functions that you need in order...
Julia Evans
2020-01-12T14:56:13.000ZA brief, but engaging, and eminently useful guide to doing a zine. From tools, to layout, copying, printing, trading, promotion, ordering, mailing, distribution, and a whole lot more. Over 150 (albeit pocket sized!) packed pages. The new third edition includes 32 more pages of distributor listings, stores, and libraries that work with zines....
Julia Evans
2019-08-28T20:48:41.000Z
A Crack in Creation
Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize The future is in our hands as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no other. George LucasRequired reading for every concerned citizen. New York Review of Books Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, unti...
Julia Evans
2018-07-05T02:05:34.000Z