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Aside from the link collection, I will not be recommending a book or two today, but tell you about my top 20 (twenty!) technical book recommendations, as well as previews of three future articles.

Best links of the past month

• Vice News' Russian Roulette series

  This chronicles the strange Russian invasion of Crimea and then more of Ukraine back in 2014, from the eyes of a Vice reporter stationed there. It really manages to show how weird the whole affair was (and I suppose still is.) I started watching this series with my wife back in 2014 but never finished because parts of it got too tough to view for both of us. I'm partway through rewatching it now and intend to go through all of it on my own.