I'm really sad about Linux Journal shutting down, I was a subscriber for years. I was actually 2 months away from needing to renew my subscription.
(As an aside, I looked at what I paid for my last 2 year subscription... it was $9... total and I think I got a shirt out of the deal. So there may have been some reasons they weren't profitable...)
Luckily archive.org made a back up of everything.
For other Linux books,
the Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook is worth reading if you want to know about being a system admin, or even just some of the basic tools that make up a Unix/Linux system. It's seriously one of the best technical books I have ever read.
The Stealing the Network series is now a bit old, but is a fascinating look into security from a technical, physical, and social perspectives.
wizardzines has a number of technical 'zines that tend to be very focused and fun.
For programming and tools:
The C Programming Language (2nd edition) is an amazing book for teaching C. (It's also easily findable as a PDF online)
The GIT book is solid. Even if you've figured out git, it's a really good read. It covers the internals to git as well which really helps you out when you run into trouble.
The Rust Programming Language book is good to read through as well.
Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby is possibly one of the most manic books I have ever read about a programming language. In retrospect, it's not terribly surprising that Why snapped one day and just disappeared from the Internet.
I haven't read it... but I keep hearing amazing things about
The Art of Computer Programming.
The Grymorire is an amazing resource, especially for SED and GREP.
For publishing and art:
A bit old now, was
Libre Graphics Magazine, which was about publishing a 'zine using open source tools. So it's very meta contextual. I read the first couple of issues and it was really neat to read about the advantages and the challenges of using open source tools in an industry that (at least at the time) was dominated by proprietary offerings.
Fun reads:
In The Beginning Was The Command Line is a great read by Neal Stephenson. That book (Treatise? Paper? Essay? Whatever it is) was available by on the cryptonomicon website, but that's now gone. But it doesn't take much searching to find copies of it around.
The Jargon File, aka The Hacker's Dictionary is a great read for old school hacker lore and lingo.
Entertaining but sometimes offensive reading:
cat-v.org (especially the
harmful section) is interesting to read through. They writer(s) are salty, but if you start looking at some of the names, you'll notice that these aren't just the thoughts of some random software engineer, but instead are from people who worked on things like
Plan 9 and
Inferno. For instance they have opinions against shared libraries and object oriented programming.
Going with the theme of salty and possibly slightly toxic reading.
Ted Dzubia's blog is entertaining if not sometimes insulting. I think one shouldn't take his advice at face value, but he does present some ideas about engineering that I've found valuable. Especially his talk about
Taco Bell Programming. Basically, don't look to Ted as an absolute authority, but I've found his arguments against some popular trends to at least be worth considering, even if I disagree with some of his points.
