Career

Career articles#

Articles and writers useful for advancing as a developer and thinking more broadly about software development as a career.

• The Grug Brained Developer: Learning to fight the evil complexity spirit demon.
• Rachel by the Bay’s writing: Over 1000 posts on software, technology, sysadmin war stories, and more.
• Vadim Kravcenko
  • Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering
  • Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior
• Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
• How can you not be romantic about programming? by Thorsten Ball
• The Seven Levels of Busy: A framework for recognizing and managing different states of overcommitment, by Rands
• Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers