The Missing README 📄

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.

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

The Missing README was officially released yesterday! 📚

We're now #1 in Amazon's "New Releases in Software Design & Engineering" category! Thanks for all the support. 📈

https://t.co/gyxEn0M8ra

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

The Missing README is part of No Starch's March Humble Bundle set! Pick from the 7 item, 11 item, or 18 item bundles to get TMR and a bunch of other amazing books. ❤️

https://t.co/Tw7M6PBIMc

[Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @squarecog]

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

[Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @squarecog]

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 @criccomini]

💯 @squarecog and I cover this in @missingreadme.

[ML and Data Projects To Know @PTKDaily]

I Have Complicated Feelings About TDD by: @hillelogram

Featured in PTK #113 https://t.co/nwah9p2e2p

Post: https://t.co/2YzYMT6WyB

[Krzysztof Ślusarski @k_slusar]

Using Async-profiler to speed up Hazelcast SQL engine - https://t.co/YxmyKLIO9T

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

some ways to get better at debugging https://t.co/EgIYbR7t06

[Luca Lanziani @lucalanziani]

"Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll say it looks good." - Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook.

[Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @squarecog]

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! https://t.co/iWJzRXbZTV

[Chris @criccomini]

To 🎉 1 year of @missingreadme, @squarecog and I are running an engineer onboarding survey and a giveaway.

Take the survey to help us! 👇 (< 5 min)
https://t.co/OLEDmrzidp

You get a free laptop sticker and a chance to win a copy of the book.

Please 🔁 so we get good data!

[Gunnar Morling 🌍 @gunnarmorling]

🗣️ "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 👍.

https://t.co/p6KnzNatxS

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

It’s The Missing README’s one year pre-release anniversary! 🎉

Over the past year, we’ve sold 1000s of copies and gotten 41 Amazon reviews with a 4.8 ⭐️ average. But the best part has been hearing how the book has helped engineers grow.

Thanks!

https://t.co/XUoF8wSFyW

[Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @squarecog]

@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).

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

We cover this in @missingreadme:

🔍 Do your research
⏰ Time box
📋 Show your work
👉 Don't interrupt
📢 Prefer multicast, async communication
📦 Batch your synchronous questions (interrupts)

@HarvardBiz posted a similar list with some some fresh ideas.

https://t.co/QVLkpZRLtA

[Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @squarecog]

@vboykis @GergelyOrosz See also, Chesterton's fence.
And @missingreadme of course 😜

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

We broke 30 reviews on Amazon (4.8 ⭐️ avg) a couple of days ago and we're above 70 on Goodreads (4.53 ⭐️ avg). 🚀✨

Keep the reviews coming! 😀

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

The Missing README will soon be available Polish
Simplified Chinese, and Russian!

We don’t have release dates, but we’ll let you know when we find.

[Chris @criccomini]

@chrisalbon True story. @squarecog and I wrote this in @missingreadme:

[The Missing README 📄 @missingreadme]

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.

https://t.co/3NTNgg72le

[Gunnar Morling 🌍 @gunnarmorling]

📢 Blogged: "What's in a Good Error Message?"

Discussing some recommendations for designing error messages in libraries and frameworks.

https://t.co/RUmw8OK2Jb