| 1. |
"The Practice of Programming" by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike |
June 12, 2024 |
| 2. |
"A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout |
June 12, 2024 |
| 3. |
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler |
June 12, 2024 |
| 4. |
"What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?" by Stephen Wolfram |
June 17, 2024 |
| 5. |
"Fundamentals of Software Architecture" by Mark Richards and Neal Ford (Part 1) |
June 24, 2024 |
| 6. |
"Fundamentals of Software Architecture" by Mark Richards and Neal Ford (Part 2) |
July 1, 2024 |
| 7. |
Mark Richards Reflects on "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" |
July 3, 2024 |
| 8. |
"Clean Coder" by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin |
July 8, 2024 |
| 9. |
Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming" |
July 10, 2024 |
| 10. |
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers (Part 1) |
July 15, 2024 |
| 11. |
Neal Ford Reflects on "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" |
July 17, 2024 |
| 12. |
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers (Part 2) |
July 22, 2024 |
| 13. |
John Ousterhout Reflects on "A Philosophy of Software Design" |
July 24, 2024 |
| 14. |
"Web Scalability for Startup Engineers" by Artur Ejsmont (Part 1) |
July 29, 2024 |
| 15. |
Michael Feathers Reflects on "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" |
Aug. 1, 2024 |
| 16. |
"Web Scalability for Startup Engineers" by Artur Ejsmont (Part 2) |
Aug. 5, 2024 |
| 17. |
Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin Reflects on "Clean Coder" |
Aug. 8, 2024 |
| 18. |
"Recoding America" by Jennifer Pahlka |
Aug. 12, 2024 |
| 19. |
Apple Design Award Winner Devin Davies Shares His Learning Strategies |
Aug. 15, 2024 |
| 20. |
"Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage (Part 1) |
Aug. 19, 2024 |
| 21. |
Host of Syntax Podcast Scott Tolinski Shares His Favorite Books |
Aug. 22, 2024 |
| 22. |
"Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage (Part 2) |
Aug. 26, 2024 |
| 23. |
Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) Shares His Favorite Books |
Aug. 29, 2024 |
| 24. |
"Looks Good To Me" by Adrienne Braganza (Part 1) |
Sept. 2, 2024 |
| 25. |
Stephen Wolfram Reflects on What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work? |
Sept. 5, 2024 |
| 26. |
"Looks Good To Me" by Adrienne Braganza (Part 2) |
Sept. 9, 2024 |
| 27. |
Adrienne Braganza Reflects on "Looks Good To Me" |
Sept. 12, 2024 |
| 28. |
Delivering High Value Work & Doing Fewer Things - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport |
Sept. 16, 2024 |
| 29. |
Neal Ford Reflects on "Building Evolutionary Architectures" |
Sept. 19, 2024 |
| 30. |
Work at a Natural Pace & Obsess Over Quality - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport |
Sept. 23, 2024 |
| 31. |
Local Development & Maddening Bureaucracy - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim |
Sept. 30, 2024 |
| 32. |
Martin Fowler Reflects on Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code |
Oct. 3, 2024 |
| 33. |
You Build It, You Run It - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim |
Oct. 8, 2024 |
| 34. |
Rebecca Parsons Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures |
Oct. 10, 2024 |
| 35. |
New Horizons & Executive Politicking - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim |
Oct. 14, 2024 |
| 36. |
The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan |
Oct. 21, 2024 |
| 37. |
Pramod Sadalage Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures |
Oct. 28, 2024 |
| 38. |
Keeping Your Codebase Clean - Tidy First? by Kent Beck |
Nov. 4, 2024 |
| 39. |
Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir |
Nov. 11, 2024 |
| 40. |
Web App Fundamentals - The Twelve-Factor App |
Nov. 18, 2024 |
| 41. |
Agile, Good or Bad? - The Agile Manifesto |
Nov. 25, 2024 |
| 42. |
Accountability Retrospective - Book Overflow 2024 |
Dec. 2, 2024 |
| 43. |
Our Top Five Books! - Book Overflow 2024 |
Dec. 9, 2024 |
| 44. |
Guess That Quote! - Book Overflow 2024 |
Dec. 16, 2024 |
| 45. |
Owning Your Career - The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz |
Jan. 13, 2025 |
| 46. |
Project Leadership & Understanding the Business - The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz |
Jan. 20, 2025 |
| 47. |
Kent Beck Reflects on Tidy First? |
Jan. 23, 2025 |
| 48. |
Make Web 1.0 Great Again! - Hypermedia Systems by Gross, Stepinski, & Akşimşek |
Jan. 27, 2025 |
| 49. |
Is HTMX Right For You? - Hypermedia Systems by Gross, Stepinski, & Akşimşek |
Feb. 10, 2025 |
| 50. |
Building Effective Teams - Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais |
Feb. 17, 2025 |
| 51. |
Evolving Your Software Teams - Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais |
Feb. 23, 2025 |
| 52. |
Acing the System Design Interview - System Design Interview by Alex Xu |
March 3, 2025 |
| 53. |
Carson Gross (Creator of HTMX) Reflects on Hypermedia Systems |
March 4, 2025 |
| 54. |
More on System Design Interviews - System Design Interview by Alex Xu |
March 17, 2025 |
| 55. |
Gergely Orosz Reflects on The Software Engineer's Guidebook |
March 20, 2025 |
| 56. |
Is Worse Better? - Worse is Better by Richard P. Gabriel |
March 24, 2025 |
| 57. |
John Ousterhout and Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin Discuss Their Software Philosophies |
March 31, 2025 |
| 58. |
Balancing Features and Systems Improvements - The Good News Factory by Kent Beck |
April 7, 2025 |
| 59. |
High-Leverage Thinking for Engineers - Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows |
April 21, 2025 |
| 60. |
Graduate Algorithms and Georgia Tech OMSCS |
April 28, 2025 |
| 61. |
Basics of Concurrency - Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov |
May 4, 2025 |
| 62. |
Coordination in Distributed Systems - Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov |
May 20, 2025 |
| 63. |
Making a Dent in the Universe - ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson |
May 26, 2025 |
| 64. |
The Origins of Google - In The Plex by Steven Levy |
June 2, 2025 |
| 65. |
How Google Created the Cloud - In The Plex by Steven Levy |
June 9, 2025 |
| 66. |
Chasing Taillights - In The Plex by Steven Levy |
June 16, 2025 |
| 67. |
Developing a Mental Model for AI - Thinking Like a Large Language Model by Mukund Sundararajan |
June 23, 2025 |
| 68. |
One Year of Book Overflow! |
June 30, 2025 |
| 69. |
Is DevOps a Silver Bullet? - The DevOps Handbook |
July 7, 2025 |
| 70. |
Manuel Pais Reflects on Team Topologies |
July 10, 2025 |
| 71. |
Deployment Strategies for Success - The DevOps Handbook |
July 14, 2025 |
| 72. |
Kirill Bobrov Reflects on Grokking Concurrency |
July 18, 2025 |
| 73. |
Shifting Left on Security - The DevOps Handbook |
July 21, 2025 |
| 74. |
How Linus Torvalds Created Linux - Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond |
July 28, 2025 |
| 75. |
Not For Us! - 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz, Katrina Owen, & TJ Stankus |
Aug. 4, 2025 |
| 76. |
What makes ideas "sticky?" - Made To Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath |
Aug. 11, 2025 |
| 77. |
Carter's Favorite Book? - Made To Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath |
Aug. 18, 2025 |
| 78. |
Jason Fried Reflects on ReWork |
Aug. 21, 2025 |
| 79. |
Staff-Level Impact - Staff Engineer by Will Larson |
Sept. 1, 2025 |
| 80. |
The Weirdest Book We've Read? - Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse |
Sept. 8, 2025 |
| 81. |
Your Boss Has Read This Book - Radical Candor by Kim Scott |
Sept. 15, 2025 |
| 82. |
Building a Culture of Candor - Radical Candor by Kim Scott |
Sept. 22, 2025 |
| 83. |
OTel Fundamentals - Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observatibilty by Steve Flanders |
Sept. 29, 2025 |
| 84. |
OTel at Scale - Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observatibilty by Steve Flanders |
Oct. 6, 2025 |
| 85. |
OTel at Scale - Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observatibilty by Steve Flanders |
Oct. 20, 2025 |
| 86. |
The Patterns of React - Advanced React by Nadia Makarevich |
Oct. 20, 2025 |
| 87. |
React is a Beautiful Mess - Advanced React by Nadia Makarevich |
Oct. 28, 2025 |
| 88. |
Patrick Debois Reflects on The DevOps Handbook |
Oct. 30, 2025 |
| 89. |
How do experienced engineers use AI? - Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani |
Nov. 3, 2025 |
| 90. |
Embracing AI as a senior engineer - Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani |
Nov. 10, 2025 |
| 91. |
Dan Heath Reflects on Made To Stick |
Nov. 12, 2025 |
| 92. |
Programming Parables to Astound your Coworkers - The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James |
Nov. 17, 2025 |
| 93. |
Steve Flanders Reflects on Mastering OpenTelemetry |
Nov. 24, 2025 |
| 94. |
Accountability Check (2025) |
Dec. 1, 2025 |
| 95. |
Will Larson Reflects on Staff Engineer |
Dec. 8, 2025 |
| 96. |
March Madness in December! Comparing Every Book We've Ever Read! |
Dec. 15, 2025 |
| 97. |
Mastering Behavioral Interviews by Austen McDonald |
Jan. 12, 2026 |
| 98. |
Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman |
Jan. 19, 2026 |
| 99. |
Replication, Partitioning, & Transactions - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman |
Jan. 26, 2026 |
| 100. |
Austen McDonald Reflects on Mastering Behavioral Interviews |
Jan. 30, 2026 |
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