In my mind
Here are some links I thought were interesting.
They are mostly articles I've read and liked.
Know your “One Job” and do it first – charity.wtf
#Career#JoyHow to become a more effective engineer
The Pragmatic Engineer
#Career#Growth#Manager stuffYou May Need To Start Creating - One Year and 50,000 Words Later
Perspectiveship
#WritingYou Want Modules, Not Microservices
Ted Neward
#ArchitectureWrites and Write-Nots
#WritingWriting as a Way of Thinking
Every
#AI#WritingBackground Work
Kent Beck from the archives
#Newsletter🌀 how to access flow states on command
Khalil Stemmler
#Architecture#Complexity#JoyHow I use git - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill
Thorsten Ball
#GitEval-driven development: Build better AI faster - Vercel
Malte Ubl CTO, VercelMalte Ubl's Twitter profile@cramforce
#AI#TestingWhich System?
Kent Beck from Software Design: Tidy First?
#Processes#Project managementHow the Product Bubble Burst - by David Coleman
David Coleman
#Industry trendScale Ruins Everything - by David Coleman - Cold Water
David Coleman
#Industry trendSticky humans in a post-AGI world - by Erik Hoel
Erik Hoel
#AI#Industry trendMaker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
#Time managementSplitting engineering teams into defense and offense | Greptile Blog
Daksh Gupta
#Processes#Project managementWhat is a product engineer (and why they're awesome) - PostHog
#Career#ProductNon-obvious behaviors that will kill your startup
PostHog
#ProductDoes it scale (down)?
#ComplexityAre Scrum Masters Too Much Overhead? - by Maarten Dalmijn
Maarten Dalmijn
#Processes#Project managementThe Case Against Documentation
Ryan Peterman
#Project managementAre you saying that my code is boring? Thank you!
Jorge Coca
#Architecture#ComplexityWhen To Do What You Love
#Career#Decision making#JoyVisual Studio Code is designed to fracture
Geoffrey Huntley
#Industry trendI am tired of AI | On Test Automation
Bas Dijkstra
#AI#Industry trendStaffing Your Projects
Ryan Peterman
#Communication#Project managementComponent Composition is great btw | TkDodo's blog
#ReactSoftware engineers training software engineers
The Pragmatic Engineer
#LearningWhat Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?
Every
#AI#Industry trendA different way to think about TypeScript
#TSThe Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration – Flow Focused
Malcolm Bastien
#Communication#Project managementA New Era of Writing Code
Ryan Peterman
#Tooling#AIWhy Scrum is Stressing You Out - by Adam Ard
Adam Ard
#Processes#Project managementThe Button Problem of AI
Evan Armstrong
#AI#Industry trend#WritingThe 4 Kinds of Software Engineers you’ll find at a Startup
Alexey Komissarouk
#CareerLet small fires burn | Swizec Teller
#Project managementData Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture
Zhamak Dehghani
#Architecture#Complexity#DataHow not to be boring
PostHog
#Design#Joy#ProductThe Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer
Kent Beck from the archives
#CareerOn finishing things
#Project management#Side projectsyou’re not a programmer
Khalil Stemmler
#JoyScope? 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#Communication