Software Engineer
Thoughtworker

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I like problem solving, thinking critically, asking questions, want to be receptive to change, and am obsessed about improvements. Keen on using technology to make a positive impact at scale. Passionate about and reader of DevOps culture, Agile and software testing. Also interested in social-technical aspects of product development and software engineering.

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code, guitar, eat

1. There are no silver bullets, only trade offs
2. Integrity is the best policy
3. Be reason-able
4. Always get close to original source of ideas, do not cargo cult

• Make systems easy to reason about
• In a context, assume as little as possible
  • if not encoded, make them explicit if not make them obvious
• Clear is better than clever
• Decouple areas of concerns
• Code is more read than written

You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman if the energy cost of sin is less than that of virtue then sin is what you will get

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joel-lim-jing_most-software-is-never-done-activity-6833578841341075456-qyJS
• https://github.com/aljorhythm/sql-to-laravel-migrations
• https://medium.com/aljorhythm/short-lived-branches-and-conflict-phobia-e81ef44c4def

Agile | DevOps | CI/CD

Martin Fowler & Associates

• Technology, software Engineering, digital Transformation

Kent Beck | Geek Incentives

• Of the TDD fame

Tech Lead Digest

• Weekly digest of a handful of articles

Programming Digest

• Weekly Digest

Prof Galloway | Twitter

• Business and technology

John Cutler | Github Epub

• Product, agile

StackOverflow blog

• Blog from the most visited resource for programmers

Will Larson | Twitter

• Engineering seniorship and leadership

Bill Wake - Exploring Extreme Programming

• Extreme Programming

Eltjo Poort

• Agile, Software Architecture, Architect of SMS

Underscore VC - Startup Secrets

• Venture Capital

Kyle from Product thinking

• Product Thinking

Irrational Exuberance

• Will Larson, CEO of Calm, Author of Staff Engineer

Level Up - Patrick Kua

• CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany), ex-Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, Founder Tech Lead Academy

Coding Horror

• Code and Human Factors

dzone

• Loads of articles on development

Julia Evans

• Ex-Stripe SSE

Dimitri Glazkov

• Principal Software Engineer at Google

All Things Linguistics

• Linguistics

GOTO Conference

• Up to date technology/software conference

TreeDots

• Technical writeups

Deb Liu

• Ex FB Product