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Humble Tech Book Bundle: Electronics for the Curious by No Starch Pay what you want to deepen your knowledge of video games and technology with our latest Tech Book Bundle: Electronics for the Curious.

Tired of doomscrolling? Trade chaos for creativity. The new @nostarchpress.bsky.social tech bundle has 21 books on electronics, consoles, and more. Pay what you want—$36 gets them all and supports EFF. www.humblebundle.com/books/elect...

Promotional graphic for No Starch Press’s Electronics for the Curious book bundle. Shows three covers—Open Circuits, The Game Console 2.0, and Getting Started with FPGAs—on a dark circuit-board background. Text notes “Supporting: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)” and a footer reads “Book Bundle.”

Still time. Pay at least $36 to get 21 hands-on hardware guides worth $500+. All in support of EFF.

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Book cover for The Great LEGO Puzzle Book by Jacob Berg. Bright blue background with LEGO-stud pattern; large yellow/white title. Callouts read “Pick a Puzzle” and “Build the Solution,” with arrows from a red 2-D LEGO pattern on a baseplate to a yellow 3-D LEGO model. Badge says “Ages 8+.” Footer: “120 Creative Building Challenges Inside!”

Solve it, then build it. Released today in stores! 120 clever brick challenges that will stretch your creativity, no screens required. Are you up for the puzzle?

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Promotional graphic for the "Electronics for the Curious" Humble Book Bundle by No Starch Press. The image shows five book covers: Arduino Workshop (Second Edition), Arduino for Arduinians, Getting Started with FPGAs, The Game Console 2.0, and Open Circuits. The title "Electronics for the Curious" is displayed in large green and white text with a plug icon, on a dark blue circuit board background. At the bottom is a red banner with the Humble logo and the words "Book Bundle."

🚨Our Electronics for the Curious @humblebundle.com is now LIVE. Pay what you want for up to 21 books worth $500+. Build circuits, robots, and gadgets that actually work. Plus: support @eff.org. www.humblebundle.com/books/electr...

Our site is down -- overloaded by the sale. We're working on it.

Black graphic with bold white and yellow text: "Labor Day Sale – 35% Off Sitewide. Use code LABORDAY35." Below: "DRM-free • Print includes instant ebook • 30-day returns." Sale ends 9/1/2025 at 23:59 PDT. Bottom corner features a cartoon robot holding a wrench.

35% off everything. Code LABORDAY35. Ends Sept 1, 11:59 PM PDT.

That’s all. Happy Labor Day!

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NSP team status: Currently vibrating with excitement on a plane to Vegas ✈️ DEF CON here we come! We're bringing books, stickers, and an unbridled enthusiasm for talking shop. You've been warned.

A poster titled "Author Signing Schedule" from No Starch Press. The schedule is for August 8th, 9th, and 10th. Friday, August 8 11:00am: Kyle Cucci, Evasive Malware and Jon DiMaggio, The Art of Cyberwarfare 12:00pm: Travis Goodspeed, Microcontroller Exploits, PoC||GTFO and Lindsay Kaye, Reversing the Dark Web 1:00pm: Nick Aleks, Black Hat Bash, Black Hat GraphQL and Alex Matrosov, Rootkits and Bootkits 2:00pm: Alfie Champion, Practical Purple Teaming and Philip Dursey, Red Teaming AI 3:00pm: JP Aumasson, Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition and Daniel Reilly, Math for Security 4:00pm: Hunter Scott, Designing Electronics That Work Saturday, August 9 11:00am: Corey Ball, Hacking APIs and Patrick Wardle, The Art of Mac Malware, Volumes 1 & 2 12:00pm: Casey Erdmann, Red Team Engineering 1:00pm: Eugene Lim, From Day Zero to Zero Day 2:00pm: Paulino Calderon & Fotios Chantzis, Practical IoT Hacking 3:00pm: Jason Andress, Foundations of Information Security and Kara Nance, The Ghidra Book Sunday, August 10 11:00am: Micah Lee, Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations The bottom right corner features a stylized drawing of two robots.

First look at our DEF CON author lineup 👀

Come say hi — these folks are as smart as they are fun at parties (very)!

A book cover titled "Red Team Engineering: The Art of Building Offensive Tools and Infrastructure" by Casey Erdmann. The background is a textured red, and the title text is large and white. In the top right corner, "2nd Edition" is printed diagonally. A white rectangular sticker with a torn edge near the bottom right says "UNCORRECTED PROOF" in black text. A small circular logo reading No Starch Press is at the bottom center.

Most red team books tell you WHAT to do. This one shows you HOW to actually do it.

Red Team Engineering breaks the "theory only" curse – from someone who's actually been there.

DEF CON attendees know the difference between talks and walks. This book walks.

A book cover titled "Reversing the Dark Web: Dissecting the Tools of the Underground Economy" by Lindsay Kaye. The background is dark grey with faint, lighter grey text at the top that appears to be code or a message, including phrases like "DEF CON EDITION," "onion.org/showthread.php?id," "04-19-2025, 11:41 PM LE need not apply," "FOR SALE: Ransomware - contact for detail," and "Stealer, Crypters, Botnets - for Rent MaaS offer - 24/7 Support." A white box with a black border in the bottom left corner reads "UNCORRECTED PROOF." In the bottom right corner is the No Starch Press logo.

Ever wonder what's actually being sold in those dark web marketplaces?

Reversing the Dark Web takes you inside the underground economy – real ads, real malware samples, real reverse engineering.

Exclusive DEF CON edition. Know your enemy.

A book cover titled "Practical Purple Teaming: The Art of Collaborative Defense" by Alfie Champion. The cover features two knights in full armor facing each other on a purple background. The knight on the left is in orange and grey armor, wielding a flaming orange sword. The knight on the right is in blue and grey armor with a blue cape, wielding a glowing blue sword. Both knights are in a dynamic stance as if about to clash. In the top right corner, a red banner reads "DEF CON EDITION". Below that, a white rectangle with a torn edge states "UNCORRECTED PROOF". The bottom right corner shows the No Starch Press logo.

Red team vs blue team is so 2019.

Our DEF CON special edition of Practical Purple Teaming by @ajpc500.bsky.social shows you how to build collaborative security that actually works. Real threats, real defenses, real results.

Coming to Vegas with the good stuff. 👀

Remember building LEGO without instructions? Just you, some bricks, and pure determination?

The Great LEGO Puzzle Book brings that back. Just you vs. the puzzle. The way building should be.

Preorder now and save with code LEGOPUZZLES! 🧩✨

Black and white illustration of a stylized, muscular figure with wild hair, wearing glasses, a torn t-shirt, and shorts, holding a small laptop in one hand and surrounded by smoke or debris. The text "NO STARCH PRESS" is at the top, and "Hacker Harry" is at the bottom.

SNEAK PEEK: New design dropping at DEF CON and it's *chef's kiss*

But what IS it? Hat? Sticker? Tattoo on a No Starch editor's face? Come find us at DEF CON for the big reveal. 🔥

Summer sale alert: 30% off all books July 3-7 with code SUNNYDAYS 🌞

Time to add some actual substance to your beach reading stack. We promise our books are more useful than whatever's in the airport bestsellers section.

Some invaders like to lurk in the shadows 👽

Advanced threats like Stuxnet and ShadowHammer don't want to be found. Evasive Malware by @d4rksystem.bsky.social teaches you how to hunt programs that hide, resist, and self-destruct.

35% off. Today only. Code LITTLEGREYMEN.

Happy UFO Day, geeks.

Python for Excel Users Boost your productivity and expand beyond the limits of Microsoft Excel with this Python primer written for users of the ubiquitous spreadsheet software.

Stuck in spreadsheet purgatory? Time for a jailbreak. 🐍

Python for Excel Users = your escape plan. Automate the pain away and pick up some handy coding skills in the process.

Get 30% off thru 6/29 with BEYONDEXCEL

Preorder: nostarch.com/python-excel

While everyone else is still loading... quantum computers have already calculated every possibility.

Get ahead of the curve. Preorder Quantum Computing: From Concepts to Code for 30% off thru 6/23.

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People sometimes ask me how to build a malware analysis VM/lab. I cover it in my book Evasive Malware - grab this 40+ page chapter for free here (hosted on my personal blog):

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Thanks to @nostarchpress.bsky.social & @nostarch.bsky.social for letting me share it! 🤓

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Coding for the Curious by No Starch Learn JavaScript, Kotlin, and more with this outstanding library of coding and programming courses. Pay what you want & support charity!

Code is speech 🗣️ Explore 10+ programming languages with @nostarchpress.bsky.social’s latest @humblebundle.com —and benefit EFF with your purchase!

Alright, hive mind. The DEF CON 33 planning spreadsheet has officially been opened.

What books and merch are on your Vegas wishlist? We're taking notes (but making no promises).

Silicon Valley will be like "Disrupt everything!" then make the same app 47 times.

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Coding for the Curious by No Starch Learn JavaScript, Kotlin, and more with this outstanding library of coding and programming courses. Pay what you want & support charity!

Ever wonder about the mysteries of other programming languages? We got you with our latest ‪@humblebundle.com: Coding for the Curious.

Pick up 18 ebooks that will turn you into the ultimate polyglot programmer while supporting the @eff.org!

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Data Engineering for Cybersecurity Turn raw logs into real intelligence.

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Don't be that security team with the leaky data pipelines.

Data Engineering for Cybersecurity shares all the secrets - from logging strategies to bulletproof pipelines made with free tools like Elastic Stack.

Preorder now for 30% OFF with code SECUREDATA, today thru 6/9!

What's the most annoying hollywood hacking trope that you could give a ted talk about?

The Linux Memory Manager book displayed on a Kindle e-reader next to a cocktail on a table in a beach side bar

mm à la plage!
I've been enjoying taking "The Linux Memory Manager" with me everywhere . Thanks to Lorenzo Stoakes and @nostarchpress.bsky.social nostarch.com/linux-memory... #linuxkernel #linux #kernel

Honor system applies, folks—if our website lets you apply the hidden code, you're one of the first 35. Don't double-dip.

A black and white line art collage features a dense arrangement of robots, fantastical creatures, and various objects. The style is cartoonish with bold outlines. A sparse yellow accent color highlights some elements. Overall Visual Description: The artwork is crowded with numerous individual illustrated components, creating a busy and detailed scene. Many elements overlap and interact. Detailed Breakdown of Elements: Top Left Area: A cartoon-style brain with a prominent grin is colored yellow. Several small, classic-style robots with dome heads and pincer hands are present. One is depicted slipping on a banana peel. Another shows visible sparks as if being electrocuted. A small robot juggles three balls. A robot with a single antenna makes a gesture. A small crab with boxing gloves is visible. A robot with a cylindrical head and expressive eyes is shown in motion. A tiny robot appears to have a jetpack. Top Middle and Central Area: A large octopus with multiple tentacles is a central figure. One tentacle holds a paintbrush, another a wrench. A long, patterned snake winds through the scene, its body around robots and other items. A robot artist stands at an easel, painting a potted flower that has a cartoon face. A stack of books is depicted, with one spine showing the word "CODE." A small, wheeled robot is present. A turtle is shown walking. A wizard's hat with a buckle is depicted. Central Image Feature: A large, framed tablet or monitor displays an illustration of a furry, one-eyed, horned monster. The monster points forward with a clawed hand, its single eye prominent. Right Side Area: A large dragon with scales, horns, and a smile occupies much of the right side. It holds a book titled "MOZS." Smaller robots are near the dragon; one seems to be offering it an object. A robot with a single wheel for locomotion looks upwards. A group of small, identical robots with yellow eyes is clustered. Bottom Left Area: A stylized, oversized human head in profile is …

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The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition This newly revised edition of The Linux Command Line contains various modernizations, including bash version 4.x and several useful new features.

Remind your IT friends who's top dog: nostarch.com/tlcl2

A page from The Linux Command Line, chapter 4, titled "MANIPULATING FILES AND DIRECTORIES". An illustration of a robot is on the left. The text introduces five Linux commands: cp (Copy files and directories), mv (Move/rename files and directories), mkdir (Create directories), rm (Remove files and directories), and ln (Create hard and symbolic links). It then begins a paragraph discussing why to use these command line programs.

Two page spread (24-25) in The Linux Command Line. The left page discusses "Wildcards," explaining their use in selecting files based on patterns. It includes Table 4-1 listing wildcards like * (matches any characters) and ? (matches any single character), and Table 4-2 listing commonly used character classes like [:alnum:] and [:digit:]. The right page shows Table 4-3 with "Wildcard Examples," such as g* (Any file beginning with g) and *.txt (Any file beginning with a followed by any characters and ending with .txt). A sidebar titled "WILDCARDS WORK IN THE GUI, TOO" is also present.

Your mouse is crying from neglect. Your keyboard is ready for glory.

The Linux Command Line by William Shotts – because typing commands is just cooler than clicking buttons.