The Pragmatic Programmer

I stumbled across the pragmatic programmer in my 4th year, and immediately started applying it on my project. This carried through to work and helped me a lot early in my career.

on HN, 2019

PMs need to get things done. Even if we don't code, we need to think deeply on how it's built to ensure it achieves our goals now, and what we project them to be in the future. As the title suggests, a pragmatic take on building code-driven systems.

on HN, 2022

As the name suggests, this book provides more tactics advice but also gives great career advice too. The most famous is to “learn a new language each year.” This kind of advice seems a bit much, but over my career I’ve had to write in over a dozen different languages, even though 90% of the code I’ve written has been in just one language, the ability to pickup new languages quickly and easily is a solid skill to have.

on HN, 2020

a very good book, with sound advice and very easy to read.

on HN, 2013

For style & technical guidelines, I think Code Complete is still a great book, or the Pragmatic Programmer.

on HN, 2022