I started these this year based on a recommendation I got… somewhere?(I forget).

I can also highly recommend them.

I’m not well-read enough to be certain but it seems like stross riffs off of a different famous author’s “style” for at least some of the books I’ve gone through so far, which is fun when I recognize the elements. It’s an amusing homage inside of an already fun chapter in the ongoing adventure.

I think you mis-spelled “biased”.

:)

Heh. Can you imagine how fast Facebook et al would have to scale this stuff back if there were some kind of law that stated that any of their code other than css and html had to be executed on their own servers rather than in each user’s browser?

The CPU/RAM offload of using every end user’s browser/device instead of their own server cycles for this has to be immense.

Not even remotely.

That’s how old I was when I started pursuing it seriously instead of just dabbling. Two decades and change later and it’s still a choice I don’t regret.

The basics are fairly straightforward and the field is wide, deep, and mutable enough that everyone’s always picking up new things anyway. The only thing that’ll make you different from your peers is the ratio of how many birthdays you’ve celebrated v. how much direct experience you have. Thankfully that metric is spread out far enough amongst CS folks that it’s only useful as a point of conversational amusement and has no bearing on one’s ability to do the actual work.