March 2022 - Interesting reads

Reads

• How We Built r/Place https://www.redditinc.com/blog/how-we-built-rplace/
• Maybe you should do less 'work' https://www.johnwhiles.com/posts/work.html/
• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
• How To Ace Your Behavioral Interview https://simpleprogrammer.com/ace-behavioral-interview/
• Herding Elephants (Wrangling a 3,500-module Gradle project) https://developer.squareup.com/blog/herding-elephants/
• Data Structures & Algorithms I Used Working at Tech Companies https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-i-actually-used-day-to-day/
• How to mentor software engineers https://xdg.me/mentor-engineers/
• Shadow jobs https://slack.engineering/shadow-jobs/
• Play Time with Jetpack Compose (especially the bit about the custom Modifier that highlights recompositions) https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/03/play-time-with-jetpack-compose.html (recomposition highlighter)

Listen

• How to Lead with Empathy in a Remote Environment https://codingsans.com/blog/leading-with-empathy

Books

• Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin

IDE trick of the month (Intellij IDEA)

• Editor > Design tools to choose how to open XML by default https://twitter.com/nisrulz/status/1490611293073514497

Bonus

• Interview with Senior JS Developer in 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk