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Engineering

• How To Become A Hacker
  Eric Steven Raymond
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
  Peter Norvig
• Feeling incompetent and it's killing me
  Flaifel7 @ Reddit
• Insider Jokes Only Programmers Will Get
  Thoriq Firdaus
• Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt
  Joel Spolsky
• Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
  Dan Abramov
• Why is quality so rare?
  Karri Saarinen
• Death By a Thousand Microservices
  Andrei Taranchenko
• Successful people
  Sam Altman
• How to Become a Great Software Developer - Best Advice from Top-Notch Engineers
  EngX Space @ YouTube
• Advice For Junior Software Engineer
  Jauhar Arifin
• The Importance of Mentorship for Software Engineers
  Charlie Kroon
• What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
  Sam Altman
• What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
  mikymoothrowa
• Systems Thinking : A quick introduction for software engineers
  Scott Altam
• Beej's Guide to C Programmig
  Brian Hall
• I Gave 2 Hours Daily to DSA & System Design, Best Decision Ever
  Himanshu Singour
• Why you need to use DTO's in your REST API
  Enock Lubowa
• Introducing RealWorld 🙌
  Eric Simons
• Software Developer Tooling: Then and Now
  Andrew Glynn
• Tips for Building Your First Production-Ready Frontend Application: A Developer's Guide
  Blaise Pascal SHYAKA
• Some Thoughts on Microservices Architecture
  Andrew Glynn
• How the Actor Model works by example
  Bob Reselman
• The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn*
  Paul Graham
• Storing User Settings in a Relational Database
  Philip Brown
• Time and Space Complexity: A Beginner’s Guide
  Nandhini P

Fiction

• The New Species
  ItsDirector @ Reddit
• Terran Contact
  VexTrooper @ Reddit
• We Do.*
  Salishaz @ Reddit
• Manifest Fantasy
  DrDoritosMD @ RoyalRoad

Life

• when you're choosing a life partner, think beyond romance*
  @goranshbharal