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Ego is the Enemy: Ryan Holiday

Ego is the Enemy on Amazon

This is an amazing book that has really taught me a lot in the past two days. It's been a long time since I read a book that had this big of an impact in such a short time. It's an great read full of meaningful anecdotes and tangible philosophy. He takes one of the most important, if often overlooked concepts, in stoicism and skillfully brings it into the light. This is the non-fiction book of 2016.

Joe Armstrong: How to solve problems

https://joearms.github.io/2016/08/08/Draft-Payment-System-in-Erlang.html

An excellent blog entry from Joe Armstrong on problem solving. Longs story short: 1.) Find the most difficult outstanding problem. 2.) Solve it. 3.) Rinse and repeat.

And importantly, if you don't know the hardest problem, find an expert who does.

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

http://www.nand2tetris.org/

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

In this project-centered course* you will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. We’ll divide this fascinating journey into six hands-on projects that will take you from constructing elementary logic gates all the way through creating a fully functioning general purpose computer. In the process, you will learn - in the most direct and constructive way - how computers work, and how they are designed.

The Imposter's Handbook: Rob Conery

https://bigmachine.io/imposter/

This looks like a great book for people who didn't got he traditional route. If you want to learn Computer Science essentials but are a self taught programmer, this might be the book for you. It looks great. Brought to you by the cohost of "This Developer's Life".

Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers

Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference (on Amazon)

https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/

This looks like an awesome book and course for an intro to Bayesian methods and probabilistic programming from a computation/understanding-first, mathematics-second point of view.

This is an advanced topic that feels out of bounds for a lot of self taught devs. This course aims to help you learn it. Looks awesome. I want this book.

Decommissioning Otto

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto.html

Otto from Hashicorp is done. This is why I don't use tools like this in production.

What Golang Is and Is Not

http://danmux.com/posts/what_golang_isnt/

An excellent break down of what go is and is not. This is a bit of a follow up to last week's talk about go.

Yelp's Undebt

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/08/undebt-how-we-refactored-3-million-lines-of-code.html

A uniquely terrible explanation of Yelp's Undebt library. Regex on steroids... for refactoring!

Make Better Software Magazine

https://blog.fogcreek.com/make-better-software-magazine/

Is it a magazine, is it not? I don't know, but it's really good content! Listen to me screw up what it actually is but compliment Cal Evans :).