In my mind
Here are some links I thought were interesting.
They are mostly articles I've read and liked.
The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer
Kent Beck from the archives
#CareerOn finishing things
#Project management#Side projectsScope? Hmm.
James Stanier from The Engineering Manager
#Manager stuff#Project managementComplexity Has to Live Somewhere
Life is not a race
Jean Hsu
#Career#JoyAbstractions as simplifications
Tony Messias
#ComplexityWhen Objects Are Not Enough
#Architecture#OOPAI didn't take my job
#AI#Career#Industry trendResponsible Slack
Kent Beck from the archives
#Project management🤿 Dive Club | The missing tool (thoughts on design engineering)
#AI#Design🤿 Dive Club | Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?
#AI#DesignThe data model behind Notion's flexibility
Jake Teton-Landis
#ArchitectureBuilding and scaling Notion’s data lake
XZ Tie, Nathan Louie, Thomas Chow, Darin Im, Abhishek Modi, Wendy Jiao
#Architecture#DataA Loaf of Roadmap
Kent Beck from the archives
#Project managementCSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project
Alvaro Montoro (alvaromontoro@gmail.com)
#CSSHow to Help Underperformers 📉 - by Luca Rossi
Luca Rossi
#Feedback#Manager stuffHow to write.
Simpler Machines
#WritingNew Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev
#Architecture#Industry trend#ReactA dev's thoughts on developer productivity
About the author
#PerformanceThe Trough of Despair
Kent Beck from Software Design: Tidy First?
#Architecture#Decision makingPromoting Your Work
Ryan Peterman
#Career#CommunicationStart Presentations on the Second Slide
Kent Beck from the archives
#PresentationsThe Documentation Tradeoff
Kent Beck for Geek Incentives
#CommunicationHow to Start Writing a Newsletter and Succeed
Raviraj Achar from Techlead Mentor
#WritingThe Art of the Awkward 1:1. You probably do a lot of one-on-one… | by Mark Rabkin | Medium
Mark Rabkin
#Career#GrowthAwkward 1:1s: How To Get Honest Feedback | by Mark Rabkin | Medium
Mark Rabkin
#Feedback#Growth#Manager stuffWrite code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am
#ComplexityThe deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens – Baldur Bjarnason
Baldur Bjarnason
#Career#Industry trendReact 19 lets you write impossible components | Mux
Darius Cepulis
#ReactHiring (and managing) cracked engineers
PostHog
#Career#Hiring#Manager stuffSystem tests have failed
#TestingTimeless skills in Software Development
Gregor Ojstersek from Engineering Leadership
#Career#GrowthHow refactoring almost ruined my marriage - by Anton Zaides
Anton Zaides
#Decision making#Technical debtI Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives
Dylan Huang
#API#ArchitectureThe Hagakure #82: Leading With The Brain In Mind
Paulo André from The Hagakure
#Manager stuffInversion - Mental Model - by Michał Poczwardowski
Michał Poczwardowski
#Manager stuffFAANG Career Ladder: Mid-level (L4) vs Senior (L5)
Ryan Peterman
#Career#LevelsReframing technical debt
Lessons in Engineering Leadership
#Manager stuff#Technical debtThe Hagakure #80: Why Coaching (Really) Matters for Engineering Leadership
Paulo André from The Hagakure
#Career#CommunicationThe Tarzan Method
James Stanier from The Engineering Manager
#Manager stuff#Growth#CareerGoing from impostor one day to feeling like a superhuman the next day
Gregor Ojstersek from Engineering Leadership
#CareerProject "Be More Chill"
Nat Bennett
#Communication#CareerMost micromanagers are blind to being seen as one
Anton Zaides
#Communication#Manager stuffWhy you need a "WTF Notebook"
Nat Bennett
#Career#GrowthLanguage of Business
Fish Food for Thought
#Career#Communication#Manager stuffDB Indexes Do Not Magically Compose
#Databases#PerformanceSaying No to what I feel I should do - by Jean Hsu
Jean Hsu
#Career#Time managementAny Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something
Jason Velazquez
GitHub - supabase/index_advisor: PostgreSQL Index Advisor
supabase
#Databases#Interesting projectFixing All The Bugs Won’t Solve All The Problems – Deming’s Path Of Frustration – Sherman On Software
jeffpsherman
#ComplexityHow to recognize the potential in engineers
Gregor Ojstersek from Engineering Leadership
#Career#Growth#Manager stuffTo Test or Not to Test? That’s a Good Question
Kent Beck from the archives
#Technical debt#TestingThe Best Manager I've Had
Ryan Peterman
#Manager stuffYour Jest Tests are Leaking Memory | chanind.github.io
#Performance#TestingImproving our Jest execution time by 300%
#Performance#TestingHow I Stopped Overthinking Last Week
Raviraj Achar from Techlead Mentor
#Writing#Decision makingTech Notes: Complexity is the enemy
#ComplexityThe Hagakure #79: Do Fewer Things
Paulo André from The Hagakure
#Manager stuff#Time management#LearningExactly what to say in code reviews - by Jordan Cutler
Jordan Cutler
#Code reviews#CommunicationThe shared code fallacy: Why internal libraries can be an anti-pattern
Ben Morris
#ArchitectureDon't Let Perfectionism Stall Your Software Development Project
Kendra Haan
#Time management#Decision making#CommunicationHow to make architecture decisions
Ben Morris
#Architecture#Decision makingDoes your Scrum team spark joy?
🌶️ Rieks Visser
#Career#JoyHow to keep the Engineer in the Engineering Manager | LeanIX Engineering
Tom Gehder
#Manager stuff#Time managementMy way back from management to coding | LeanIX Engineering
Nikolas Rist
#Manager stuff#Careerdai-shi/waku: ⛩️ The minimal React framework
#Interesting projectChallenging projects every programmer should try
Austin Z. Henley
#Side projectsTBM 277: Bring Back Fun - by John Cutler
John Cutler
#Career#Joy