References

I have created this page to share links to articles that I have found meaningful. Essentially, these are the articles that have helped me shape my engineering and my work beliefs. Beliefs are not one-shot, they iterate and change over time. My hope with this list is that I can track articles that resonated with me, and share them at the appropriate time with friends and colleagues.

Sadly, I should have started this as soon as I created my website. Many articles are now lost to time, and only a vague idea remains in my memory. Changing that starts today.

Friends’ Blogs

• Sebastien Williams-Wynn
• Citizen428

Work

• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
• Always be quitting
• Why Developer Experience Is More Than Just Better Tooling
  • Developer experience is a systems problem masquerading as a tooling problem. The organizations winning at DX understand this distinction. They invest in tools, yes, but they invest equally in culture, communication patterns, psychological safety, and organizational design.

Management

• Get your work recognized: write a brag document
• What’s a senior engineer’s job?
• How I give the right amount of context (in any situation)
• How to be an empathetic manager (without becoming a therapist)