Read The Literature

Read, listen, and watch the indispensable literatures (books, podcasts, videos, etc.) of a Computer Programmer, Open-Source Contributor, Web & Mobile Developer, and Writer.

Others

• Career Ladders by Sarah Drasner
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know by Kevlin Henney
• 97 Things Every Architect Should Know
• Lean Software Development
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler, et al.
• Managing Projects with GNU make by Robert Meklenburg

37signals, Jason Fried, DHH, et al.

• Getting Real by 37signals
• REMOTE: Office Not Required by Jason Fried & DHH
• REWORK by Jason Fried & DHH

David Heinemeier Hansson

• Acting your wage will atrophy your abilities
• Engineering excellence starts on edge
• Europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)
• Celebrating computers at Omacon

Artificial Intelligence

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his employees are refusing Zuckerberg’s $100 million payout—and he’s not even matching salaries to keep them
• Introduction to Agents (Whitepaper)
• Ex-Google Exec: How to Position Yourself Now Before the Next AI Phase (2026–2027) | Mo Gawdat

Entrepreneurship

Starter Story

• How to Build A Business Worth Buying
• I Spent 24 Hours With A SaaS Millionaire
• How I Work: $77K/Month Solopreneur

Simon Squibb

• I Invested $10,000 Into A Strangers Business… And It Worked

Seth Godin

• The night clerk

Software Engineering

• Re-cursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine

Anders Hejlsberg

• Microsoft Lead: “AI will NEVER Replace Coders, Here’s Why”
• Anders Hejlsberg: A Craftsman of Computer Language
• TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

Addy Osmani

• 21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google
• The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
• Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
• How to become a “T-shaped” software engineer
• Software Engineering: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

Citations by Addy Osmani

• Demand for junior developers softens as AI takes over
• Beyond Full-Stack: The Rise of the T-Shaped Developer

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

• See all of the episodes

The Go Blog

• Go Slices: usage and internals

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native

• You Don’t Know JavaScript, 1st Edition by Kyle Simpson
• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
• The React Foundation: A new chapter for React and React Native
• 12 tips for setting up your next Expo project
• Expo bets big on React Native’s agentic future

Modern Software Engineering

• Why Do Developers Struggle With Small, Simple Changes?

System Design and Software Architecture

• What Is a Software Architect?

Personality Development

Jordan B. Peterson

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Robert Greene

• The 48 Laws of Power

Fortune

• Jane Goodall made a name for herself with no degree, no experience: She got a job as a waitress and saved ‘every penny’ on a one-way ticket to Africa

Courses

• Getting Started with Microsoft DevOps