"10 books away from being cracked": the CS classics meme stack
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-11-02
A viral meme claims you're only 10 books away from being the strongest engineer you know, illustrated with a mountain of CS classics — K&R, CSAPP, Crafting Interpreters, OSTEP, SICP, Computer Architecture, ISL, Deep Learning with Python and more, with Pepe gazing over them from a peak. The quoted post adds a cozy suggestion: make matcha and read Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.
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