Stripe, the digital payments company that is known for its robust APIs and clever web design, also happens to be a Book publisher. Stripe Press is a publishing imprint that specializes on books that readers who are into technological innovation will truly appreciate. This publishing venture has been going strong since 2018, and a few of the books released thus far have been praised for their clever focus on how the IT revolution is changing the world.
The following Stripe Press Books are highly recommended to anyone with an interest in IT development:
The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
This book essentially contains development journals dating back to 1985 about one of the more interesting titles in the history of computer games. In this book, you get to learn a lot about how he created the groundbreaking game for the Atari console. Quite a few modern game developers have fallen in love with this book because they feel that it illustrates how you can translate your passion into coding.
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
Can the development of open source software be referred to as an industry? Nadia Eghbal provides philosophical answers to this question, and she goes deep into how FOSS communities have actually shaped certain online behaviors we engage in several times a day.
Scientific Freedom by Donald Braben
When we look at the history of scientific progress, we can't help but to think that many of the inventions that have transformed society were supposed to happen. Donald Braben looks at how scientists were able to work pretty much on their own until peer review and government funding came around. We have reached a troubling point in scientific progress; government involvement in the wake of World War I has shaped most of the inventions and mechanisms that we take for granted nowadays, but this is starting to change with the advent of Amazon, Google, Apple, Tesla, Facebook, and even Uber. We now have technology giants pushing the kind of projects that governments were reluctant to fund, and this is bound to have a different societal effect. For more information click here https://v.redd.it/yt85o1jdcur71.
