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To get the ball rolling, here are mine:

Fiction: Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu — I’m late to the party, but this was an enjoyable read. I’m looking forward to reading the next two in the series.

Nonfiction: Designing Games by Tynan Sylvester — I’m not a game developer, but I thought the book was really thought provoking about designing products in general. Plus, I love Rim World.

Fiction Audiobook: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman — I can’t recommend enough.

Nonfiction Audiobook: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams — read by the author, a first hand account of the early days of Facebook, Zuck and Sandberg.

My employer provides a five thousand dollar self improvement stipend that we are able to spend on anything that will improve our wellbeing or make us better. What classes, courses, programs would you take to utilize such a benefit?

Dependency and package management has seen a lot growth and attention in the Python community even in the last couple years. Everyone has their opinions on what to use, but for enterprise code bases, what is the recommended approach?

Ideally responses would include size of user base, number of package dependencies, any issues arisen, etc.

Thanks y’all. Needless to say, the most recent pipenv post on the front page has led to more confusion than I’d like to admit.

I’m interested in making highly customized visualizations that are highly dense in data. Is D3.js still the defacto low level visualization library? Is JavaScript the only option? Are there any low level alternatives in either scripting languages like python and R, or in compiled languages like C++ or Rust?