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Gio’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gio’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Gio Lodi’s Followers (26)
1,098 books
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104 friends
270 books
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480 books
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1,103 books
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166 books
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433 books
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252 books
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888 books
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Gio Lodi
Goodreads Author
Born
Italy
Website
Member Since
September 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/mokagio
Lords of the Cosmos — Highlights
Lords of the Cosmos by and Chipkin is a much-needed injection of rationality in the current discourse. It explores the history of ideas and how they affect societies, explains why popular doctrines like environmentalism and relativism are threats to civilization, and introduces the theories that can propel us forward.
At a time when anti-progress thought is rampant, we need more voices like Arjun’s
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Test-Driven Development in Swift: Compile Better Code with XCTest and TDD
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Gio’s Recent Updates
"I hate Richard Mayhew. He is among the worst protagonists in anything I've read/played/watched. His only redeeming feature in the entire book is that he stops to help someone lying in the street after nearly tripping over them, and that's just what a"
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"Well I haven't written a review in about a week so I might as well start with this one. If you know that reading a bad review of a Neil Gaiman book is going to make you mad then please just skip this because I have nothing good to say about this book"
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"I read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" recently, and loved it. So when I saw "Neverwhere" on the cheap shelf at the local bookstore I picked it up. For a book that is only 370 pages I thought it would never end. It was Gaiman's first solo novel, so I w"
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Full-Cast Edition) (Harry Potter #1)
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Readers' Favorite Audiobook
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Opening Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“The Principle of Least Surprise" describes a general approach to software that celebrates sanity over cleverness: clear intent, reasonable defaults, and providing a sense of control to the developer.”
― NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective C
― NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective C
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
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“Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”
And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
“What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
“Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.
“But why’s she got to go to the library?”
“Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
“What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
“Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.
“But why’s she got to go to the library?”
“Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
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“If you're happy slamming some code together that more or less works and you're happy never looking at the result again, TDD is not for you. TDD rests on a charmingly naïve geekoid assumption that if you write better code, you'll be more successful. TDD helps you to pay attention to the right issues at the right time so you can make your designs cleaner, you can refine your designs as you learn.”
― Test-Driven Development: By Example
― Test-Driven Development: By Example
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