@missingreadme

The Missing README covers skills you'll need to be a successful software engineer, the skills your manager wants you to know, the skills not taught in school.

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One of my favorite bits in @missingreadme . If you ever get to visit, the amphitheater in Arles is incredible. P.S. buy the book for your early career SWE friends! :-D
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Get the trilogy: The Missing README by @squarecog and @criccomini , followed by The Software Engineer's Guidebook by @GergelyOrosz , and on to Staff Engineer's Path by @whereistanya .
Chris@criccomini4 Dec 2023
If y'all are lookin for a good gift this holiday season, might I recommend The Missing README? amazon.com/Missing-README-Guโ€ฆ @squarecog and I jammed it full of practical lessons for engineers. Plus, it's got fun autobiographical stories like this one...
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The Missing README ๐Ÿ“„ retweeted
Chris@criccomini10 Apr 2023
๐Ÿ’ฏ @squarecog and I cover this in @missingreadme.
Gunnar Morling ๐ŸŒ
@gunnarmorling10 Apr 2023
A software (libraries as well as apps) design tip: validate configuration as early as you can. Validation (and failing) at build time > validation at start-up > validation at runtime. The earlier any invalid config is flagged, the faster the feedback cycle for your users.
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ML and Data Projects To Know@PTKDaily1 Sep 2022
I Have Complicated Feelings About TDD by: @hillelogram Featured in PTK #113 bit.ly/ptk0113 Post: buttondown.email/hillelwayneโ€ฆ
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The Missing README ๐Ÿ“„ retweeted
Krzysztof ลšlusarski@k_slusar31 Aug 2022
Using Async-profiler to speed up Hazelcast SQL engine - hazelcast.com/blog/performanโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ”ŽJulia Evans๐Ÿ”
@b0rk30 Aug 2022
some ways to get better at debugging jvns.ca/blog/2022/08/30/a-waโ€ฆ
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Luca Lanziani@lucalanziani29 Aug 2022
"Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, heโ€™ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and heโ€™ll say it looks good." - Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook.
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New software engineer? Experienced eng/manager who helps new engineers? Take this 5 min survey on onboarding! All responses get a sticker and entry into raffle for a free copy of The Missing README. Please RT! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1Fโ€ฆ

State of Engineer Onboarding: A Survey

Whether you are a new grad just starting your first job, or an experienced developer who's been welcoming new team members for the past decade, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the state of...

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The Missing README ๐Ÿ“„ retweeted
Chris@criccomini29 Aug 2022
To ๐ŸŽ‰ 1 year of @missingreadme, @squarecog and I are running an engineer onboarding survey and a giveaway. Take the survey to help us! ๐Ÿ‘‡ (< 5 min) forms.gle/4v4eJKAut8BAnKo79 You get a free laptop sticker and a chance to win a copy of the book. Please ๐Ÿ” so we get good data!

State of Engineer Onboarding: A Survey

Whether you are a new grad just starting your first job, or an experienced developer who's been welcoming new team members for the past decade, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the state of...

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The Missing README ๐Ÿ“„ retweeted
Gunnar Morling ๐ŸŒ
@gunnarmorling11 Jul 2022
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Distill years of Java experience down to a set of best practices that help developers build high-quality Java applications and libraries" Lots of good advice for #Java developers on this site by @JonathanGiles ๐Ÿ‘. java.jonathangiles.net/
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Itโ€™s The Missing READMEโ€™s one year pre-release anniversary! ๐ŸŽ‰ Over the past year, weโ€™ve sold 1000s of copies and gotten 41 Amazon reviews with a 4.8 โญ๏ธ average. But the best part has been hearing how the book has helped engineers grow. Thanks! amazon.com/dp/1718501838/refโ€ฆ

The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer

For new software engineers, knowing how to program is only half the battle. Youโ€™ll quickly find that many of the skills and processes key to your success are not taught in any school or bootcamp....

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Replying to @karlhigley
If I may tweet my own horn a bit, we mostly wrote @missingreadme for beginners, but it's lowkey good for mid-career, too (most will find at least 50% of it useful, different 50 for each person).
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We cover this in @missingreadme: ๐Ÿ” Do your research โฐ Time box ๐Ÿ“‹ Show your work ๐Ÿ‘‰ Don't interrupt ๐Ÿ“ข Prefer multicast, async communication ๐Ÿ“ฆ Batch your synchronous questions (interrupts) @HarvardBiz posted a similar list with some some fresh ideas. hbr.org/2022/02/how-to-interโ€ฆ

How to Interrupt Someoneโ€™s Workday โ€” Without Annoying Them

Interruptions are a fact of life โ€” but do they have to be unpleasant? A recent study found that 31% of workplace interruptions are actually experienced positively, and offers six strategies to help...

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Replying to @vboykis @GergelyOrosz
See also, Chesterton's fence. And @missingreadme of course ๐Ÿ˜œ
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We broke 30 reviews on Amazon (4.8 โญ๏ธ avg) a couple of days ago and we're above 70 on Goodreads (4.53 โญ๏ธ avg). ๐Ÿš€โœจ Keep the reviews coming! ๐Ÿ˜€
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The Missing README will soon be available Polish Simplified Chinese, and Russian! We donโ€™t have release dates, but weโ€™ll let you know when we find.
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There are many chapter 9 (going on-call) learnings in this post. The post is also a good example of the "follow-up" section. It's worth a read. blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblโ€ฆ
The Missing README ๐Ÿ“„ retweeted
Gunnar Morling ๐ŸŒ
@gunnarmorling12 Jan 2022
๐Ÿ“ข Blogged: "What's in a Good Error Message?" Discussing some recommendations for designing error messages in libraries and frameworks. morling.dev/blog/whats-in-a-โ€ฆ
What's in a Good Error Message? Context, the error itself, mitigation.

ALT What's in a Good Error Message? Context, the error itself, mitigation.

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As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. ๐Ÿงต 1/
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This site (from @afronski) has a great visualization of major AWS outages. It's a nice supplement and re-inforcement to some of the stuff we talk about in our ops chapters. ๐Ÿ˜ awsmaniac.com/aws-outages/

The Complete History of AWS Outages

... at least the most major ones. ๐Ÿ˜‰ This is one of those posts that I wanted to prepare a few years ago. However, I couldn't do that in an approachable form. Now I have found a really viable and...

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