[pengaru]

> If it's any consolation, it sounds like the list is at least three years old by now.

In my experience when it comes to learning technical subjects from a position of relative total ignorance, it's the older resources that are the easiest to bootstrap knowledge from. Then you basically work your way forward through the newer texts, like an accelerated replay of a domain's progress.

I think it's kind of obvious that this would be the case when you think about it. Just like how history textbooks can't keep growing in size to give all past events an equal treatment, nor can technical references as a domain matures.

You're forced to toss out stuff deemed least relevant to today, and in technical domains that's often stuff you've just started assuming as understood by the reader... where early editions of a new space would have prioritized getting the reader up to speed in something totally novel to the world.