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  1. Comment on After two years, and two prior failed attempts, I finally finished reading The Wheel of Time! It's been so long since I chose a book that I don't even know what to read next. in ~books

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    Congrats on finishing the series! The obvious answer here is to start the Wheel of Time reread! For many, rereads are even better as you can pick up on the nuances / foreshadowing sprinkled...

    Congrats on finishing the series!

    The obvious answer here is to start the Wheel of Time reread! For many, rereads are even better as you can pick up on the nuances / foreshadowing sprinkled liberally throughout.

    Pseudo-jokes aside, here are some other series/standalones I’d recommend that I didn’t see called out elsewhere:

    • anything by Joe Abercrombie; he’s one of the best at writing characters
    • Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames; a fun little story about some old friends getting the band back together
    • Book of the Ancestor by Mark Lawrence; a gritty magic school-ish trilogy set in a really neat world
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  2. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    Clojure, hands down. It: jives perfectly with the way I want to think about programming very little syntax; It’s Just Data(tm) REPL-driven development is at the core of its design backwards...

    Clojure, hands down.

    It:

    • jives perfectly with the way I want to think about programming
    • very little syntax; It’s Just Data(tm)
    • REPL-driven development is at the core of its design
    • backwards compatibility is a core tenet
    • has a wonderful and helpful community
    • can run basically anywhere
    • has a dialect to fit your use-case (Clojure, Clojurescript, Babashka, ClojureDart, ClojureCLR, jank)

    I’ve long held the opinion that Clojure criminally underused in business settings; it basically checks all the boxes for a dependable, consistent, performant language.

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