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 Dead Lies Dreaming, by Charles Stross, is another horror book in the Laundry Files series. This one goes does not concern the main characters, but mostly Imp and his gang of magically powered villains, Eve, a minion of a rich, twisted guy, and Wendy, a super-powered rent-a-cop. It does happen after the new government is in place. Mostly this is about the chasing of a powerful book, and the consequent mess. I very much liked this one, as it went a little deeper into the magic of the series, and had plenty of action. I am also happy to hear that a sequel to this should be coming out later this year.

 Build a Static Site Generator with Python is a project in PluralSight. I never used their projects before (they had another style for HTML, which I did use), and it was interesting. Basically, you fork a repo in github, tell them your github name, and they will test what you did after you push the code. This was pretty useful, but in a limited way - you mostly just do what you are told, such as adding methods to a class, and adding that exact call. So what you learn is much more limited than just telling you to do something. Unless I skipped something, there was no talking about the structure of the project either, which would have been interesting. Still, give how little experience I previously had with PyCharm, I did learn a few things.

 Core Python: Classes and Object-orientation, by Austin Bingham and Robert Smallshire, is another course in the Core Python learning path in PluralSight. It covers class attributes, methods and properties, string representation, multiple inheritance (which is implemented in quite an interesting way in Python), Class decorators, and data classes. My favorite were data classes. I didn't know about them (they are kind of recent, being added in 3.7), These seem to be popular, considering Kotlin's data classes and C# records, and this is for a reason, as they save a lot of unnecessary code. Overall, pretty interesting.

 Tesla vs Lovecraft is a twin-stick shooter, which feels a lot like Crimsonland (which I played a lot), which is easily explained by the fact that 10tons made them both. Basically you go around shooting while running from monsters. What is nice in this one is the teleport (jump short distances) and the mech (after you get 6 parts, you can shoot from a big mech for a while). Perks are pretty similar, and so are the guns. It is just themed around Tesla and Lovecraft, which I think I was very clever and works well. I particularly like that even if you die, you can still get crystals from kills, which you can use for upgrades. Overall, strongly recommended for fans of shooters.

  Core Python: Functions and Functional Programming, by Austin Bingham and Robert Smallshire, is another course in the Core Python learning path in PluralSight. This cover callables, decorates, conditional expressions, lambdas, some of the more complex argument conventions (*args, **kwargs) and map/reduce. Useful, and very short - 1 hour.

  Card Thief is a very clever card game based on concepts used in stealth games, such as guards, light sources, etc. Very interesting, and the tutorial is quite long, because there are a lot of rules. Graphics are nice, and the gameplay is fun enough. It is in Google Play Pass (Brazil), too.

Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change, by Edward D. Hess, is a book about effectively learning, heavily focused on organizations (but also potentially useful for individuals). There is a lot touch-feely stuff, as well as lots of practical, important advice, that I imagine could turn organizations around. I was already practicing a few of the suggestions around the book, such as meditation. Overall, pretty interesting. I am glad I spent the time reading this (I didn't spend extra money, as it was on O'Reilly Safari).