I'm looking for some "programming" books, and not "learning X in Y minutes", but rather things about culture. Stories from people in the field, weird anecdotes, bash.org/bofh humor, those kind of things. Any recommendations?
Fire in the Valley, Dealers of Lightning, Where the Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner, Soul of a new Machine by Tracey Kidder, The Dream Machine.
There are histories of Apple, Microsoft, and many smaller (and now gone) companies and/or projects.
Showstopper (Windows NT), Insanely Great (Macintosh), Defying Gravity (Apple Newton), In the Plex (Google), Hackers (by Steven Levy), Ghost in the Wires.
More philosophical type stuff In the beginning was the command line Dreaming Code, Coders at Work
There's many worthwhile books about the history and culture of programming and hacking not listed, but this might be a useful starting point.
Especially the lore section: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/appendixa.html
Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy, long opening setion on MIT in the 1950s - 1980s, another section on the beginning of the computer games industry mostly in California in the 1970s, other sections too.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/soul-of-a-new-machine-tracy...
It's mostly about the development of the Data General Nova computer. It's mostly about (80s) hardware engineering, but there's some software stuff too, IIRC.