As a former librarian, it was perhaps inevitable that my immediate response to a promotion to management should be “oh my goodness, I must read about this!” The very day I was informed that I was going to be promoted, I went home, pulled up the local library’s catalog, and began looking for books that might be helpful. Here are ten that I found particularly useful.

Compiling a toy kernel under OS X is much harder than you might expect. An account of my adventures learning about object file formats, linkers, and the foibles of OS X.