Pointer: What Current & Future Engineering Leaders Read

Burnout in Software Development Demystified

- Matthieu Cneude

Wellness
Guide

tl;dr: A guide to burnout - causes, symptoms, how to talk about it to your manager and strategies to counter it. "Strong social bounds are the best medicine against chronic stress."

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Your First 90 Days As CTO Or VP Engineering

- Will Larson

tl;dr: Covers the following areas - priorities and goals, making the right system changes, tasks for the first 90 days, learning and building trust, building a support system, organizational health and process, hiring, execution & technology.

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On Pair Programming

- Birgitta Böckeler Nina Siessegger

PairProgramming
Guide

tl;dr: At its core, pair programming builds skills that "help immensely to become a well-functioning, collaborative and effective team," such as valuable qualities i.e. focus, communication, giving and receiving feedback, empathy and vulnerability.

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Database Design Standards

- Curtis Poe

tl;dr: Curtis runs through some tips on database design - whether to go with camel case names or underscore\_names, plural or singular tables, column naming, and more.

featured in #169

Learn Rust The Dangerous Way

- Fortuna Eruditis Favet

Rust
Guide

tl;dr: "A series of articles putting Rust features in context for low-level C programmers who don't have a formal CS background - the sort of people who work on firmware, game engines, OS kernels, and the like."

featured in #167

10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes

- Subhas Dandapani