Notes

These are my notes from reading and working as a software engineer. Some pages are rough or incomplete. If you have a question, get in touch.

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I add to these as I read and try things at work. Some of the notes also informed past issues of The Balanced Engineer.

I keep a list of blogs and newsletters I follow in developers-who-blog. Many of these notes come from the books below.

Books represented

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
Accessibility Handbook by Katie Cunningham
Computer Science Distilled by Wladstone Ferreira Filho
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
Domain-Driven Design Distilled by Vaughn Vernon
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
Kill it with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future-Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
The Art and Business of Online Writing by Nicolas Cole
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Coding Career Handbook by Shawn Swyx Yang
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook by Gergely Orosz
The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly
The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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