I'm happy to announce that my book, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software, is now completely free: codesimplicity.com/book/

The DIY way: Developer experience surveys (or developer satisfaction surveys) are a great entry point into understanding what's causing friction on your team. Here's my list of 25+ questions to ask: bit.ly/dev-survey-que…

"My scaleup hired a Director of Engineering who did nothing for a year, except come up with artificial 'verticals' which worked terribly. The person was let go after a year." - from a software engineer. This summarizes so many challenges & problems with engineering leadership:

When I was a manager, I keept track of what people worked on, in my team. Yet, I can't count the number of times when I realized I am unaware of a good chunk of *additional* things engineers on my teams did. Don't assume your manager knows about all the good work you do.

The explosion of low-code tools to build internal-facing tools is incredible. Retool being the best-known one, and Appsmith, Bubble, Budibase, Internal .io, Softr, Superblocks, Tooljet and so many more show that there's a big shift in how companies want to build internal tools.

Check out our newest blog on Techlab and learn how the bol.com tech vision enables and benefits our developers. Autonomy within a framework. techlab.bol.com/en/blog/tech-v…

I read a lot about Engineering Management. Of all writers I found this year, Dave Anderson has been by far the most consistently insightful with 100% down-to-earth & actionable tips. This piece on How to Onboard Yourself in 3 Weeks at a New Job is a clear example of that! 🧵

Very inspiring how the Viget team provides transparency on how they care about software maintenance, via this series of articles viget.com/articles/maint…

Being a new manager is scary. 60% fail within 18 months. 15 principles that will put you in the top 1%:

Bad Manager: 6 Signs of a Bad Manager getlighthouse.com/blog/bad-manag… via @get_lighthouse

11 Things You Should Never Say to Anyone (and what to say instead):

Matt Mochary has been CEO coach to Naval, the founders of OpenAI, Notion, Rippling, Robinhood, Coinbase, Reddit, Plaid, Flexport, Opendoor, partners at Sequoia, YC, Benchmark, and many others. He also open-sourced his entire curriculum, templates and all. Here's a link 👇

What are interesting (engineering) blogs for earlier stage startups? Ones before Series B. Granted this is usually a time where many places are heads down building… but it’s also interesting to learn what works for these teams.

Looking for ideas for books for software engineers? Here are more than 100 books collected, based off recommendations from fellow techies: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/holiday-tech-b… Disclaimer: no links in the post are affiliates (or any links in my blog or articles).

An insightful and inspiring discussion around how to support engineering teams podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dev…

An underrated way to attract great engineers to your company (drumroll) Have a great engineering blog. This means ENGINEERS write the blog, not content writers. And they give the "real deal" about challenges, learnings, failures. So few companies do this. A few that do:

What is a really dangerous habit to build within your development workflow? 👇

Sharing a Trello by Atlassian board I have been working on that aims to accelerate the learning for engineering leaders interested in implementing "Developer Experience" #DX and "Developer Productivity" initiatives for their organizations. trello.com/b/Gyy6SMxt/dev…