For history, and how people used to treat computers I would suggest Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and how that approach to computing was slowly getting lost.
On 06/29/2018 11:42 AM, Jens Staal wrote: > Dear all, > > Do you have any reading suggestions (preferably academic papers, but books > might also work) in alignment with the "suckless philosophy" (or > "minimalism"). > It does not have to be specifically programming, it could also be engineering > and design in general (art might be a stretch, but if you know some good > litterature in that field I am open to that too). > > >