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cat ~/hacker-fables
$ Hacker Fables
The satirical cyberpunk novella to read while your AI agent completes Jira tickets.
“Dan Brown on ketamine.”
“Neon Genesis Evangelion meets programming.”
“The world’s first LeetCode-Hard Sci-Fi Novel.”
“If you think you’re a really good programmer, read Hacker Fables. You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.”
“A fitting swan song for the age of human programmers.”
WHAT HACKERS ARE SAYING
Thanks for this gem, been chuckling at work for almost three hours now, remarkable workika-twb @ Lobsters
I've been reading for 20 minutes and honestly howling, let me put on some Darude and finish thiskernelle @ Lemmy
Nifty. Flashbacks of John Sundman. And a little BOFH.anagnost @ Lobsters
This is the greatest thing since grep!SW42 @ Lemmy
AVAILABLE FORMATS (ORDER BY difficulty ASC;)
html
HTML
mp4
Video Audiobook
mp4
YouTube
pdf
PDF
epub
EPUB
mp3
Audiobook
md
Markdown
man
Man page
info
GNU Info
git
Compile it
SUPPORT THE AUTHOR
Buy me a coffee
# First $50 funds a real (non-AI) cover for the book.
READ FROM YOUR TERMINAL
# Read it as a man page
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curl -sL https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables/hacker-fables.man | man -l -
# Or install it system-wide
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curl -sL https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables/hacker-fables.man \
| sudo tee /usr/local/share/man/man1/hacker-fables.1 > /dev/null \
&& man hacker-fables
# Read it as a GNU Info manual
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info -f <(curl -sL https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables/hacker-fables.info)
# Or install it system-wide
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curl -sL https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables/hacker-fables.info \
| sudo tee /usr/local/share/info/hacker-fables.info > /dev/null \
&& sudo install-info /usr/local/share/info/hacker-fables.info \
/usr/local/share/info/dir \
&& info hacker-fables