Perfecting your craft is one of the most important things that you can do. You spend a large amount of your life at work, so you might as well be good at what you do. This page is a collection of resources that have helped me to become better at mine.

Advice I’ve Recieved

• Find a mentor and learn everything that you can from them.

• Like a company needs different CEOs at different stages of the companies life, you need different mentors at different stages of your career.

• “Ship it!” or “Build. Build. Build.”

• Slow down. Think about the problem you’re solving. Give problems the respect that they deserve.

Resources

Articles

• Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years

• Guide to Debugging: I’ve been looking for a guide like this for a long time and Julia Evans has provided a brilliant one. Follow her advice and you can’t go wrong.

Talks / Lectures

• CTO In A Box (Mark Masterson)
• The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)

Books

I re-read sections of these books frequently.

• Mythical Man Month (Brooks)

• Clean Code (Martin)

• The Design of Everyday Things (Norman)

• Software Engineering (Sommerville)

• Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach (Russell & Norvig)

• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Fowler)

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (GoF)

Blog Roll

Blog rolls aren’t really a thing anymore, but here is a list to get you started. I’ve learnt a lot from these blogs.

• Overreacted (Dan Abramov): Dan works at Meta on the React (front end JavaScript framework) team. He is an interesting guy, and I always enjoy reading his posts.

• Tania Rascia

• Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)

• Joel Spolsky

• Idle Words (Maciej Ceglowski)

• Daring Fireball (John Gruber)

• Dan Luu

• Patrick Collison (CEO of Stripe)

• Paul Graham

• Schneier on Security (Bruce Schneier)

• Kalzumeus (Patrick McKenzie)

• Derek Sivers

• Professor Matt Might

• Bellard