Matthew Campbell rated The sandman: 4 stars
The sandman by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Book 4)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
I enjoyed parts of the is book, and I really wanted to love the whole of it. I really love the meandering rabbit-hole filled discussion of technical topics, and I don’t have a systems programming background so I was excited to learn more than just Rust here.
Unfortunately, I feel like some of the chapters and their projects landed much better than others. Building a chip8 emulator was really strong and the topics covered felt like the projects really nailed home some low level systems topics. But others like the clocks and timing chapter missed for me, and I’m not sure I understand NTP or time-keeping or any better than I did to start. I think chapters like the latter teach you to work with a specific framework or library implementation, and so the details talked about and hinted at but never shown actually take away from learning the core …
