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If you’re ready to level up from writing code to truly understanding computation, jump in and explore what your programs are really doing.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A practical guide to understanding macOS threat behavior through system data, persistence inspection, and Apple security frameworks.

Start neutralizing threats: https://bit.ly/4pkU1oz
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Security data is only as good as the pipelines behind it. Learn how to collect, enrich, and secure telemetry using open source tools like Filebeat, Logstash, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
https://nostarch.com/data-engineering-cybersecurity
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Modern AI feels easier when you build each model yourself. This book shows you how.

https://nostarch.com/deep-learning-crash-course
Every print copy comes with a free Ebook!
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Kotlin isn’t just for Android. In Kotlin from Scratch, you’ll build 37 projects that explore math, physics, and algorithms to strengthen your coding skills.

https://nostarch.com/kotlin-scratch
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Remember when making your own Game Boy game felt impossible? Not anymore!

Look at what Sydney Chen and Alfonso Rada of Hamilton University built after diving into Game Boy Coding Adventure.

🎮 https://nostarch.com/game-boy-coding-adventure
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Turn theory into working wireless systems. The Wireless Cookbook helps you master Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LoRa through Linux projects that build real, functional solutions.

https://nostarch.com/wireless-cookbook
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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If someone you know already loves Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, this workbook is the perfect gift for the holidays.

It’s packed with exercises, projects, and real scripts that make coding click.

Available now at major retailers

https://nostarch.com/automate-workbook
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Happy Halloween from everyone at No Starch Press. The Halloween Sale ends tomorrow before the clock strikes midnight.

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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Learn assembly by doing what you always wanted as a kid: playing with your Game Boy. Available now at major retailers.

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October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Trick or treat yourself 👻
Our Halloween Sale is live with 31% off sitewide from 10/28 to 11/1.
Use code HALLOWEEN31 before it disappears into the fog... https://nostarch.com/
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Still time. Pay at least $36 to get 21 hands-on hardware guides worth $500+. All in support of EFF.

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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.”
September 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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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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!”
September 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🚨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...
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."
September 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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35% off everything. Code LABORDAY35. Ends Sept 1, 11:59 PM PDT.

That’s all. Happy Labor Day!

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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.
August 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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First look at our DEF CON author lineup 👀

Come say hi — these folks are as smart as they are fun at parties (very)!
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.
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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 "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.
July 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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 "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.
July 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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. 👀
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.
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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! 🧩✨
July 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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. 🔥
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.
July 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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CODES UNLOCKED: 30% off everything with code MDAY2025, today thru Monday!

But wait, there's more. Hidden somewhere in this cover art chaos is a secret code for 35% off. First 35 pairs of eagle eyes to spot it get the bigger discount.

Let the zooming in begin🔎
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 …
May 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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.
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.
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Multiple Python legends in one room? @ehmatthes.bsky.social (Python Crash Course), @codemouse92.bsky.social (Dead Simple Python) & @alsweigart.bsky.social (Automate the Boring Stuff) hit PyCon’s Python Author Meet & Greet — May 17, 2:15–3:45 PM. Don’t miss it!
May 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Data leaks don’t whisper. They scream in CSVs and logs.

Learn to listen with Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations by @micahflee.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM