Note that a lot of recommended reads will be scattered around in relevant topic pages and won’t be listed here.

Daily Reads (Blogs etc)

Blogs and Sites

• Internal tech channels used by your colleagues (for me at the time of writing, that’s Slack)
• afreshcup.com/ - Aggregator of general software dev content
• Hacker News - Aggregator of industry-wide content on computer science and entrepreneurship
• The Morning Brew - useful aggregator of .Net stuff
• Ayende.com - blog by the CEO of Hibernating Rhinos, who develop RavenDB
• Scott Hanselman’s blog
• Daily email digests:
  • @patkua’s levelup
  • @orenellenbogen’s softwareleadweekly
  • @garethr’s devopsweekly
• There are a few good documentary style videos (VueJS, Elixir, GraphQL etc) on honeypot.io

Podcasts

• Troubleshooting Agile - a weekly problem-solving session hosted by Douglas and Jeffrey on software delivery and team productivity.
• GreaterThanCode - - Jessica Kerr (@Jessitron) is one of the hosts
• The Making Of from The Female Lead
• hanselminutes
• Remote working - moving from an oral to a written culture
• dev/to
• fullstackradio
• egghead.io
• List of podcasts recommended by @surlydev (also available as an opml file here):
  • .NET Bytes
  • .NET Rocks!
  • A Question of Code
  • Adventures in .NET
  • Adventures in Angular
  • Azure DevOps Podcast
  • Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
  • Bill Gates Unplugged: On Software, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Giving Back - Video
  • Breach
  • Channel 9
  • CodeNewbie
  • Coding After Work Podcast
  • Data Breach Today Podcast
  • DBAle
  • Deep Fried Bytes
  • Defrag Tools (MP4) - Channel 9
  • Developer Tea
  • Ditching Hourly
  • Eat Sleep Code Podcast
  • Future of Coding
  • Get Up and CODE
  • Hallway Conversations
  • Hanselminutes On 9 (HD) - Channel 9
  • Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
  • Herding Code
  • How To Code Well
  • Merge Conflict
  • Moral Maze
  • MS Dev Show
  • Ops All The Things!
  • PowerScripting Podcast
  • RunAs Radio
  • Second Career Devs
  • Security Now (Audio)
  • Simple Programmer Podcast
  • SQL Server Pain Relief: Office Hours
  • SQL Server Radio
  • Submersion
  • Success Through Failure with Jim Harshaw Jr
  • Talk Python To Me
  • The .NET Core Podcast
  • The 6 Figure Developer Podcast
  • The Cynical Developer
  • The Hello World Podcast
  • The Python Podcast
  • The Stack Overflow Podcast
  • The Tablet Show
  • The Tim Ferriss Show
  • This Developer’s Life
  • Troy Hunt’s Weekly Update Podcast
  • Visual Studio Toolbox (HD) - Channel 9
  • Voice of the DBA
  • Weekly Dev Tips
  • Weiss Tech Sound Bytes
  • Words Work at Microsoft Podcast, a podcast about about how Microsoft culture has evolved, starting with the way we talk
  • World Wise Web
  • You’re Doing It Wrong

Reading List

See Trello (Clare MT Trello) for more (for now).

• You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake: How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them
• The Nature of software Development by Ron Jeffries - “this is one of my favourite books at the moment and it’s helped so much with these conversations” [about things like not being in a rush when developing software] (comment made by my colleague in a Slack thread)
• Retrospectives Antipatterns, by Aino Corry - I have this on Kindle. To find it in browser, search Amazon past orders.

See also

• Clare MT Trello (Clare only)
• Alternate Mondays Trello (Clare only)
• Goodreads.com - I have a “Want to read” list and a “want to listen” list
• Clare-tech (Clare only)