Building a real backend used to mean hiring a backend engineer, standing up a database server, wiring authentication, configuring file storage, and writing an API layer nobody would ever see. It was slow, expensive, and easy to get wrong, and most of it was plumbing. Today something has changed. AI coding agents can write code, run commands, and hold a sustained conversation about architecture, and Supabase gives you the open-source backend built on PostgreSQL that makes the partnership wo...

You picked up this book because you are tired of 2 completely contradictory sets of answers. The real estate blogs tell you renting is throwing money away and that you must buy before prices rise further, while the finance forums tell you buying is a trap and that your down payment belongs in the stock market. You are educated, financially literate, and utterly confused, and that confusion is the reason this book exists. You share the conviction this book honors: that the answer depends on...

Behind every software idea sits a door that used to lock shut at the question: do you know how to code? This book hands you the key. No-Code to Pro-Code Bridge is a field guide for people who have never written code and are tired of waiting for a technical co-founder, a contractor, or permission. It turns you into someone who can direct an AI to build real, deployed software and spot bad output.Tom Johnson takes you from the mental models that separate shippers from dreamers to the...

Most machine learning books teach algorithms in order and abandon you the moment your model leaves the notebook. This one works the other way. You build 3 complete systems, from raw messy data to deployed APIs, learning each concept exactly when you need it. You will build a churn prediction service with Scikit-Learn, a plant disease classifier with Keras, and a support ticket classifier with PyTorch using transformer models from HuggingFace. You finish with 3 working projects and the judg...

If you have picked up this book, you already know the central challenge of gluten-free cooking. Dinner, that daily question that every household faces, becomes infinitely more complicated when gluten is off the table. You cannot order pizza on the way home or grab a quick sandwich from the deli counter. You cannot rely on the boxed pasta dinner that your kids have always loved. Every single meal requires thought, planning, and a level of effort that can feel exhausting by the end of a long...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This written text was created using AI. Are you a man over 40 who feels tired, unfocused, and just not like yourself anymore? The declining energy, stubborn weight gain, brain fog, and diminished drive you're experiencing aren't inevitable parts of aging. They're signs that your hormones are out of balance, and this comprehensive guide shows you exactly how to fix that.Hormone Optimization for Men Over 40 is your science-based roadmap to r...

Though best known for its horror films, Hammer produced a wide variety of movies in many genres. The British studio was famous for its exciting stories and expert action--all on very small budgets and short shooting schedules.From The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935) to The Lady Vanishes (1978), this is the definitive work on Hammer's 165 films. Complete filmographic data are provided for each film, including release dates in both the United Kingdom and the U...

Galileo Galilei said he was “reading the book of nature” as he observed pendulums swinging, but he might also simply have tried to draw the numbers themselves as they fall into networks of permutations or form loops that synchronize at different speeds, or attach themselves to balls passing in and out of the hands of good jugglers. Numbers are, after all, a part of nature. As such, looking at and thinking about them is a way of understanding our relationship to nature. But when we do so in...

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson’s storied career in public service and journalism that began as a reporter at the Macon Telegraph in Georgia spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was an eyewitness to pa...

A young newly married couple suffers a painful tragedy while on their honeymoon high in the Rocky Mountains.Aaron and Kailyn are deeply in love with bright futures stretching out before them. They plan to raise a family in the stunning and historic Oak Valley, a small Midwest town. The village is seemingly created for newly married couples and their children—with refreshingly clear streams, ponds, forests, parks, and quiet homes filling the landscape. Their lives a...

“Compliments of the Domino Lady!” In order to avenger the murder of his father, socialite Ellen Patrick donned a domino mask and evening dress and packed a .45. Running for six rare stories in mid-1930s pulp magazines, these stories remain elusive. Now, these are collected in an affordable edition, complemented by an all-new Afterword by pulp historian Tom Johnson.

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic musical moments, the movie has not received the same attention as other musicals from MGM’s storied dream factory. In C’mon, Get Happy: The Making of “Summer Stock,” authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture, from start to fin...