Stumbled on Build Your Own Redis with C/C++. Decided to read it.

To some extent… I’m not sure what the point is. It does definitely go into a lot of the networking and data structure details you’d need to build your own Redis. So it certainly lives up to the name.

On the other hand, I feel like a lot of the book is spent down in the weeds, implementing some of the less important details of how Redis works. At that level, it’s a generic networking/data structures book with Redis as the example. Which works, just not something that I need at this point.

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Clint is in over his head. Again. Tracksuit mafia. Managing a building. Installing AV equipment. Valentine’s Day. Women.

The dog gets it.

Poor Gil . :/

It’s a neat story, if somewhat incomplete.

Onward!

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The Avengers don’t really make any sense… Hawkeye least of all. It’s the Disney+ series in a nutshell. Let’s see how the comics did it first…

Okay, so I can see how the bones are the same, but it’s a different story. Hawkeye (s)? Check. Clint and Kate. They’re cute together; platonically. Dog? Check. Tracksuit mafia? Bro. Fisk? CHECK. Bad guy auction? Check.

Overall, it’s really good. I’m looking forward to where this goes next!

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Well that’s cute. Part teenage romance, part ‘how in the world do we take care of these random alien slugs anyways’. Well worth a piece of the Skyward universe.

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So we have a trainingish montage with Jean and Magik, two issues were saw already, and a big character moment for Bobby…

… which is cute way to do it I suppose. If it had any other impact.

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X-Men! Guardians! What could possibly go wrong?

What already went wrong…

In a nutshell: the Black Vortex. A magical MacGuffin that can apparently make anyone… more. It’s up to our heroes (more or less) to…

Destroy it?

Use it?!

And off we go on a wild ride that’s only sort of an X-Men story in that they’re at least in it (in various stages of powered up). But it’s still a neat one.

Onward and back to the main line once again.

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“A hero does not choose her trials. She steps into the darkness, then she faces what comes next.”

If you are the sort to want absolutely zero spoilers going into a book stop reading now. Go read the book (it’s really good, that’s not a spoiler :spoiler:) and then come back. You have been warned.

Okay, now that that’s out of the way. It’s been … three years since I first read Skyward. WheN I read it, the sequels weren’t even out yet… when Starsight first came out, I just didn’t get around to it. I’m somewhat lamenting that lack now. 😄 But as they say, the second best time to plant a tree is today.

In any case, Starsight takes place where Skyward left off. Spensa has some crazy new powers she doesn’t understand, M-Bot is out in the open–and really the star of the book–, and humanity is ready to take back the stars… More or less.

Spoilers. For real, albeit minor.

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As if time travel weren’t enough… now the new old X-Men happen to bump into a new new mutant with the power to send them to all sorts of different places and times. Oh boy.

Miles Morales. Dinosaurs in Antarctica. Another Kid Wolverine. Jeans Grey. MOLE MAN. Dr. Doom. This volume really has it all.

I just wish they didn’t have a whole new set of problems when they can’t even deal with the whole out of time thing. That is going to get resolved… right?

Right?

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Yup. Ya done screwed up Beast.

Beast mopes. Jean mopes. The future future Brotherhood come back to the past/future. Shape shifters shift shapes. Everything is timey whimey and complicated. No one really learns anything.

A time travel loop—keep trying until it works—is kind of overdone… But if you’re ever going to use it, this is the storyline.

Oh comics.

Onward.

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Well that’s wonderful. In a nutshell, it’s the story of three women who find themselves working at Bletchley Park during the height of the code breaking parts of World War II. It’s something I’ve read quite a lot about from a more technical level and I’m familiar with Alan Turing’s (the Prof’s) time there, but this is an entirely different story–and one well, well worth the read.

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