Foundations
- Usborne Microcomputer Programming in BASIC Books
- Amstrad CPC464 Programmer’s Manual
- Matt’s Script Archive
- REALbasic by Matt Neuberg
Programming
- The C Programming Language by K&R
- The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets
- Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass
- Pangea’s Ultimate Game Development Guide by Pangea Software
- Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom
Mac / Apple
- Infinite Mac
- Folklore
- Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
- Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address
Design
- The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
- Design for Hackers by Kadavy
- Butterick’s Practical Typography
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
- Bret Victor
Computation / Consciousness
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Building
- Evening at Adler
- ReWork by Jason Fried & DHH
- Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull
- The Idea Factory (Bell Labs)
- Build by Tony Fadell
- iWoz by Steve Wozniak
Entertainment
Historical