Links to Learning Material

Reading for every junior developer

Your Job Is Not to Write Code by Laura Klein
Pair Programming Economics by Olaf Lewitz
A tweet about DRY / Don’t Repeat Yourself by Sarah Mei
Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself by Dan McKinley
How to study for exams—A playlist of short YouTube videos explaining how we learn, and how you should go about revising

Same Stats, Different Graphs by Justin Matejka & George Fitzmaurice—on looking at distributions, why we need to plot the data & never trust statistics tables

Dangit, Git!?!—you screwed up… find help here
Git Pretty—a flow chart to help you work out what to do when you have a git mess
🌳🚀 CS Visualized: Useful Git Commands is a great site with animations of various Git operations that really help you to see what is happening

REST / Hypermedia: How to GET a Cup of Coffee by Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, Ian Robinson
The Twelve-Factor App on building cloud native applications
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Decisions, decisions—a talk by Dan North about trade-offs, and distinguishing decisions that matter a lot more than others
Things: how we think of them, what that means for building systems by Keith Braithwaite discusses two ways of interpreting the world, and how engineers tendencies to follow categorisation can conflict with other peoples tendency to apply inference

An important post addressing peoples comfort attending large meetings ON SHOWING UP TO THE TABLE by Katherine Daniels (@beerops)
Check the links in this tweet from Bridget Kromhaut if you think ‘guys’ is a gender neutral term
Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji by Hannah Miller
CAP Theorum for teams, or Tradeoffs in Coordination Among Teams
What Are Your Pronouns? by Jay Nordlinger
Pronoun Island
Tweet about a fascinating documentary about unexpected impacts of ecological diversity

The Pushtrain by Dan McKinley—an excellent piece about the importance of managing the human side of continuous delivery, since tools are just part of the problem and culture is more significant
Good design principles around Chef Cookbooks: Our Experiences with Chef: Cookbook and Attribute Design by Clinton Wolfe of OmniTI
Database Migrations Done Right by Michael Brunton-Spall
The OSI Model / Seven Layer Model of networking—every web developer should have a high level understanding of this
An interesting article by John Allspaw—Etsy’s former CTO—about effective questioning in the context of incident post mortems called The Infinite Hows (as opposed to ‘The Five Whys’).
Etsy’s awesome resource about running effective debriefs after incidents, building on blameless postmortems & focusing on the importance of learning. Code As Craft article by John Allspaw / Debriefing Facilitation Guide PDF
CORS (cross-origin-resource-sharing) explained in one cartoon by Julia Evans
A whole site explaing CORS
How DNS Works
How the Internet works: Submarine fibre, brains in jars, and coaxial cables
Web Developer Checklist
Bash scripting quirks & safety tips by Julia Evans
Breaking Down Your Build: Architectural Patterns For A More Efficient Pipeline by Abraham Marin-Perez

How great leaders inspire action—a TEDx talk by Simon Sinek about ‘Why, How, What’ (18 minutes)
This is why you shouldn’t interrupt a programmer by Jason Heeris
Countering the above I suggest engineers watch this fascinating documentary about insight, problem solving and rest affects your ability… watch about five minutes starting from 46:56. BBC HORIZON The Creative Brain. How Insight Works.
Cynefin (ties in with learning approaches)
Zach Holman’s speaking.io, a great resource with tips about public speaking.
Working with Queue and Stack people by Marc Esher
The Dilts Pyramid as a Coaching Tool by Liz Garnett (looking for a more technically appropriate resource I can link to on this)
Situational Leadership Model
The Most Dangerous Leadership Traps — and the 15-Minute Daily Practice That Will Save You
Some useful tips on training yourself to be more empathetic: Stop Controling Your Reactions to Others’ Behavior by J. B. Rainsberger
How to make a sandwich—Dan North talking about how to deliver feedback (if you think it’s ‘good news, bad news, good news’, you should watch this)

ripgrep is around ten times faster than grep, and supports multi threaded processing
Measure your network speed with fast.com
Measure your performance with WebPageTest
Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way: asciinema
Static analysis for your shell scripts: ShellCheck
Internet Archive Wayback Machine, for those pages that don’t exist in the present any more
HTTP Archive tracks trends in how the web is built
Sankeymatic generates Sankey Diagrams from code