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Discussing Clean Coder by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin

Book Overflow 2026-09-21 | Discussing Clean Coder by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin

Guess That Quote! - Book Overflow 2024

Book Overflow 2024-12-16 | In this season finale of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan put their memories to the test and see if they can guess which quotes come from which books! Using their custom built Book Overflow Game, game.bookoverflow.io (and we've already fixed the bugs!), Carter and Nathan present themselves with a series of quotes from all the books they read and try to identify which book the quote is from!

Thank you for a great 2024! We'll see you in January of 2025!

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A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Ousterhout
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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert C. Martin
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
amzn.to/4gE8443 (Paid Link)

Web Scalability for Startup Engineers 1st Edition by Artur Ejsmont
amzn.to/3ZGbexq (Paid Link)

Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design 1st Edition by Kent Beck
amzn.to/3ZGzaAK (Paid Link)

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance 2nd Edition
by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code 1st Edition by Michael Feathers
amzn.to/3ZzADJj (Paid Link)

"Looks Good to Me": Constructive code reviews by Adrienne Braganza
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The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) by Martin Fowler
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards, Neal Ford
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The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim
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00:00 Intro
4:33 Question 1
6:38 Question 2
7:30 Question 3
9:36 Question 4
12:19 Question 5
14:27 Question 6
16:38 Question 7
17:45 Question 8
21:50 Question 9
24:45 Question 10
25:34 Question 11
27:03 Question 12
28:26 Question 13
35:13 Question 14
37:08 Question 15
38:46 Question 16
41:44 Question 17
42:53 Question 18
44:50 Question 19
45:29 Question 20
46:06 Question 21
47:21 Question 22
48:59 Question 23
51:03 Final Thoughts

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Our Top Five Books! - Book Overflow 2024

Book Overflow 2024-12-09 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan review their top five books of the year! Join them as they discuss their favorite books, why they cracked the top five, and their thoughts on the first year of Book Overflow!

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(Cart's #2 and Nathan's #4)
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards, Neal Ford
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(Nathan's #5)
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance 2nd Edition by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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(Carter's #5)
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
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(Carter's #4)
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert Martin
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(Nathan's #3)
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W Kernighan
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(Carter's #3)
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont
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(Nathan's #2)
The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
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(Nathan's #1)
A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition Paperback by John Ousterhout
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(Carter's #1)
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
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00:00 Intro
02:07 The one book we both picked, Fundamentals of Software Architecture
09:28 Nathan's #5 - Building Evolutionary Architecture
12:39 Carter's #5 - What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
18:10 Carter's #4 - Clean Coder
22:50 Nathan's #3 - Unix: A History and a Memoir
27:41 Carter's #3 - Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
30:26 Nathan's #2 - The Practice of Programming
36:37 Nathan's #1 - A Philosophy of Software Design
52:43 Carter's #1 - Slow Productivity
58:54 Final Thoughts

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Accountability Retrospective - Book Overflow 2024

Book Overflow 2024-12-02 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan review all the promises they made at the end of each episode when they ask each other "What will you do differently in your career as a result of having read this book?" Join them as they review every goal they set, whether or not they kept it, and what they've learned from this year of reading the best technical books in the world!

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The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
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The Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
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What is ChatGPT Doing… And Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert Martin
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
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Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont
amzn.to/4eZmwmf (paid link)

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
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Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance by Ford, Parsons, Kua, and Sadalage
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Looks Good To Me by Adrienne Braganza
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Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
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The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
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Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
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Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design By Kent Beck
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00:00 Intro
06:10 The Practice of Programming
10:48 What is ChatGPT Doing… And Why Does It Work?
14:40 Fundamentals of Software Architecture
23:30 Clean Coder
29:33 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
44:52 Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
53:17 Recoding America
54:31 Building Evolutionary Architectures
58:53 Looks Good To Me
01:02:27 Slow Productivity
01:06:19 The Unicorn Project
01:13:36 Unix: A History and a Memoir
01:15:09 Tidy First?
01:17:30 Final Thoughts

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Agile, Good or Bad? - The Agile Manifesto

Book Overflow 2024-11-25 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss The Agile Manifesto, a free-to-read document that has greatly defined the modern software engineering landscape. Join them as they discuss its legacy, how it persists in software engineering today, and whether it was ultimately a good or bad development!

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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
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UNIX: A History and a Memoir Paperback by Brian W Kernighan
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A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition Paperback by John Ousterhout
amzn.to/3ZkPc4h (paid link)

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance 2nd Edition
by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/3Z3TaNx (paid link)

Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
by Mark Richards, Neal Ford
amzn.to/3B5pibu (paid link)

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The Agile Manifesto
agilemanifesto.org

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

About the Authors
agilemanifesto.org/authors.html

Agile Manifesto: History
agilemanifesto.org/history.html

Wikipedia page on Agile Software
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

Agile's Teenage Crisis?
infoq.com/articles/agile-teenage-crisis

Our Interview with Brian Kernighan was mentioned in Golang Weekly Issue #532!
golangweekly.com/issues/532

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00:00 Intro
01:28 General Thoughts on the Agile Manifesto
08:50 Reading the Agile Manifesto
14:27 Principle 1: Deliver Valuable Software
21:31 Principle 2: Changing Requirements
24:15 Principle 3: Deliver Working Software Frequently
26:24 Principle 4: Work Together Across Teams
27:42 Principle 5: Build Projects around Motivated Individuals
30:33 Principle 6: Effective Communication (in person, video calls, slack)
38:06 Principle 7: Working Software is the measure of progress
39:42 Principle 8: Maintainable software
41:41 Principle 9: Technical Excellence and Agility
44:54 Principles 10, 11 & 12: Simplicity and saying no, Self-Organizing Teams and Retrospectives
50:28 Criticisms of the Agile Manifesto
01:03:07 Final Thoughts

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Web App Fundamentals - The Twelve-Factor App

Book Overflow 2024-11-18 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss The Twelve-Factor App, a free-to-read manifesto on the fundamentals of building a modern web application. Join them as they discuss scalability, statelessness, and the proper way to handle logs!

The Twelve-Factor App - 12factor.net

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Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
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Other resources and Links mentioned in this episode:

- Active Github - github.com/heroku/12factor
- Original repo! - github.com/adamwiggins/12factor
- Wikipedia Page - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Factor_App_methodology
- Google Cloud 12 Factor - cloud.google.com/architecture/twelve-factor-app-development-on-gcp
- Redhat Illustrated Guide - redhat.com/en/blog/12-factor-app

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00:00 Intro
02:47 Initial thoughts on 12 Factor Apps
11:42 I. Codebase
16:17 II. Dependencies
21:50 III. Config
30:55 IV. Backing services
36:00 V. Build, release, run
40:40 VI. Processes
43:15 VII. Port binding
45:20 VIII. Concurrency
49:47 IX. Disposability
53:00 X. Dev/prod parity
57:40 XI. Logs
01:01:16 XII. Admin processes
01:03:01 Final Thoughts

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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir

Book Overflow 2024-11-11 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Brian Kernighan once again joins Carter and Nathan, this time to discuss his book Unix: A History and a Memoir. Join them as Brian recounts what it was like working at Bell Labs, how it feels to have contributed so much to the world of computing, and whether or not he thinks creating a big idea like Unix is still possible!

-- Videos mention in this video --

@Computerphile Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle (UTF-8)
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Unix: A History and a Memoir
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
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Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin by Howard Markel
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00:00 Intro
02:18 Bell Labs, Unix, and What prompted the book?
07:02 Doug McIlroy and the Simplicity of Unix
13:12 Was Unix inevitable?
22:00 Getting Scrappy, PIP-11, and document preperation
27:35 tools, composability, and patterns
33:04 awk, snobol and associative arrays
35:27 Small Teams and Big Ideas
41:58 Plan 9 and UTF-8
49:41 Life After Bell Labs
54:00 Humilty and Collaboration at Bell Labs
55:22 Long Term Influences of Unix (pipes, programmable shell, composition of tools, stdin, stdout, stderr)
59:46 Closing Thoughts

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Keeping Your Codebase Clean - Tidy First? by Kent Beck

Book Overflow 2024-11-04 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Tidy First? by Kent Beck. Join them as they discuss when you should prioritize tidying your code over feature improvements, what tidying means, and the Beck's thoughts on software and the time value of money!

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Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) by Martin Fowler
amzn.to/3C9d5mq (paid link)

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/4fmoIVC (paid link)

A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Ousterhout
amzn.to/4ecmYgv (paid link)

The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
amzn.to/4fuMP4b (paid link)

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00:00 Intro
03:14 About the Book
05:41 Thoughts on the Book
11:17 Techniques and Approaches for Tidying (Part 1)
36:20 How to prioritize and manage tidying tasks (Part 2)
47:30 Optionality, Reversibility and The Philosophy of Tidying (Part 3)
01:05:38 Final Thoughts

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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Pramod Sadalage Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures

Book Overflow 2024-10-28 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Pramod Sadalage joins Carter and Nathan to discuss his book Building Evolutionary Architectures. Join them as Pramod shares his thoughts on how he became a database expert, the differences between refactoring code and databases, and how AI is affecting how we work with databases!

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Building Evolutionary Architectures
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Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh by James Serra
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team by Patrick M. Lencioni
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00:00 Intro
03:13 Motivation for Writing the Book
06:06 Becoming a DB Expert
14:54 The lag between data and application teams
26:00 Emerging Patterns & Technologies
34:21 AI, LLMs, and Databases
41:00 Pitfalls and Antipatterns
47:57 Fitness Functions and Writing Tests
56:10 Final Thoughts

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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan

Book Overflow 2024-10-21 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. Brian Kernighan, one of the inventors of Unix, discusses in detail how the idea came to be, who the key contributors were, and what about Unix made it so revolutionary.

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Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
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00:00 Intro
01:38 About the Book
04:19 Thoughts on the Book
12:08 Bell Labs, Multics, and Proto-Unix
31:54 Making Unix Useful to others
38:59 Unix Structure and Philosophy
53:18 7th Edition, Community, and Beyond Research
59:23 Unix, Universities, Growth, Plan 9, and Beyond
01:15:41 Final Thoughts

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

New Horizons & Executive Politicking - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (Part 3)

Book Overflow 2024-10-14 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan finish their discussion of The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. Written in the style of a novel, join them as they discuss how businesses bet big on new ideas, dealing with layoffs, and executive politicking!

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The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Rebecca Parsons Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures

Book Overflow 2024-10-10 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Rebecca Parsons joins Carter and Nathan to discuss her book Building Evolutionary Architectures. Join them as Rebecca shares her thoughts on the benefits of abstractions, how the computer science industry has changed during her tenure, and how her academic work on genetic algorithms influenced the book!

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Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance
by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
by Mark Richards, Neal Ford
amzn.to/4e5za3g (Paid Link)

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
by Matthew Skelton
amzn.to/3ZT9h2x (Paid Link)

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
amzn.to/4h3orbJ (Paid Link)

Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
by Fei-Fei Li
amzn.to/3ZYQdzP (Paid Link)

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00:00 Intro
02:43 Motivation for writing the book
09:43 Fitness Functions, Emergent Design, and Business Value
24:47 Interdisciplinary Influences: Genetic Algorithms, Fitness Functions, Robotics
31:06 Significant Innovations in Technology
37:09 Working with co-authors
41:47 Navigating Organizational Complexity, Team Topologies, Career Advice, and Value of Experiments
52:16 Final Thoughts

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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

You Build It, You Run It - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (Part 2)

Book Overflow 2024-10-07 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Part Two of The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. Written in the style of a novel, join them as they discuss the protagonist Maxine's journey of transforming the failing Phoenix Project from a big ball of mud into an agile, efficient architecture!

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The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim
amzn.to/3XJFg2u (paid link)

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
amzn.to/3Bz9NbS (paid link)

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
amzn.to/4exblBO (paid link)

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance
by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/4eDlsVS (paid link)

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00:00 Intro
02:16 About the Book
03:54 Thoughts on the Book
10:36 Taking Risks, Psychological Safety, and Overcoming Organizational Roadblocks (Chapters 8-10)
34:42 Ownership, Business outcomes, Stability Theatre, Postmortems, and Relentless optimism (Chapters 11-13)
01:04:15 Closing Thoughts

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Martin Fowler Reflects on Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Book Overflow 2024-10-03 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Martin Fowler joins Carter and Nathan to discuss his book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Join them as Martin shares why he wrote Refactoring, how the art of refactoring has changed, and how he views the book's legacy!

martinfowler.com

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The Art of Agile Development, 2nd Edition by James Shore and Shane Warden
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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
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00:00 Intro
01:58 Motivation for writing the book
09:45 Refactoring, Extreme Programming, and testing
19:17 Estimating, Unknowns, and Complexity
23:40 Trust and High Performing Teams
30:32 refactoring in the wild: imitate, assimilate, innovate, best practices and sensible defaults
43:39 Legacy of the book and rational for second edition
47:35 What are the role of books now? Evergreen content, Long-form content in a world of short-form content.
01:03:21 Book Recommendations
01:09:12 Closing Thoughts

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Local Development & Maddening Bureaucracy - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (Part 1)

Book Overflow 2024-09-30 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the part one of The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. Written in the style of a novel, join them as they discuss the protagonist Maxine's journey of being assigned to a failing project, working within a maddening bureaucracy, fighting for easy local development!

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On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
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Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance
by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
amzn.to/4eeCc5r (paid link)

Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
amzn.to/4domW4F (paid link)

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00:00 Intro
02:05 About the Book
09:02 Thoughts on the Book
17:25 Blame, Chaos, broken processes, and dysfunction (Chapters 1-3)
46:09 The Rebellion, Red Shirts, and the Five Ideals (Chapters 4-7)
01:20:54 Closing Thoughts

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Work at a Natural Pace & Obsess Over Quality - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

Book Overflow 2024-09-23 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second half of Slow Productivity by MIT-educated computer scientist and productivity expert Cal Newport. Join them as they discuss what it means to work at a natural pace, how to obsess over quality, and the useful tactics Cal Newport recommends to do both!

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00:00 Intro
01:45 About the Book
03:01 Thoughts on the Book
06:39 Recap for the first half of the book
10:31 Working at a natural pace and avoiding the monotony of industrial work
56:20 Obsessing over Quality, Saying No, and Betting on Yourself
01:28:10 Closing Thoughts

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Neal Ford Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures

Book Overflow 2024-09-19 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups are joined by Neal Ford as he reflects on his book Building Evolutionary Architectures. Join them as they discuss the inspiration for the book, the process of writing it with three other co-authors, and how Neal envisions the future of software architecture!

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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
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Refactoring Databases
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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
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00:00 Intro
02:37 Meeting at Random Coffeeshop in Germany
04:43 Motivation for writing the book, working with co-authors, and ASCIIDOC
14:37 Pitfalls and Anti-patterns
18:33 Last Responsible Moment
23:52 Inverse Conway Maneuver
31:42 AI Tools and Evolutionary Architecture
38:03 Connascence and Coupling
45:03 Orthogonal Coupling, Aspect-Oriented Architecture, and Governance Mesh
51:29 Change and Continuous Learning
01:00:07 Final Thoughts

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Delivering High Value Work & Doing Fewer Things - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

Book Overflow 2024-09-16 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Slow Productivity by MIT-educated computer scientist and productivity expert Cal Newport. Join them as they discuss how to avoid burnout, how to balance ambition with stamina, and useful productivity hacks Cal Newport recommends!

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Looks Good To Me
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture
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Building Evolutionary Architectures
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Eat That Frog!
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00:00 Intro
05:00 About the Book
09:17 Thoughts on the Book
14:20 Knowledge Work, Pseudo-Productivity, and the Zoom-pocalypse
23:57 Slowing Down for Authentic Productivity
39:34 Do Fewer Things to do what matters most
01:20:24 Final Thoughts

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Adrienne Braganza Reflects on Looks Good To Me

Book Overflow 2024-09-12 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Adrienne Braganza joins Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups to reflect on her book, "Looks Good To Me." Join them as they discuss what motivated her to learn so much about code reviews, the process of becoming an author, and what motivated her to become a software engineer in the first place!

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Looks Good To Me by Adrienne Braganza
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Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
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You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader by Mark Sanborn
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Della Fattoria Bread: 63 Foolproof Recipes for Yeasted, Enriched & Naturally Leavened Breads by Kathleen Weber
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The Best Simple Recipes: More Than 200 Flavorful, Foolproof Recipes That Cook in 30 Minutes or Less by America's Test Kitchen
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00:00 Intro
02:46 Motivation for writing the book
06:08 First Code Reviews, Team Dynamics, Communication
10:01 Motivations, Approach, Focus, and Curse of Knowledge
19:47 Humor, Approachability, and Tech Writing
22:58 Software Engineering Journey and Beyond
31:09 Addressing broken processes
40:06 Caring about Documentation
48:58 Backstory on the title and the illustrations
55:16 How to read and reference the book
01:02:32 Book Recommendations
01:07:38 Closing Thoughts

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Illustrator Manfred Steger
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Discussing Looks Good To Me by Adrienne Braganza (Part 2)

Book Overflow 2024-09-09 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups discuss "Looks Good To Me" by Adrienne Braganza. Join them as they discuss what makes a bad code review, pair programming, AI automation, and more!

Looks Good to Me by Adrienne Braganza
manning.com/books/looks-good-to-me

Other Episodes mentioned in this episode:

Stephen Wolfram Reflects on What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?
youtube.com/watch?v=Aw7_CBczUD4

Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) Shares His Favorite Books
youtube.com/watch?v=GL0EE_cv9T0

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00:00 Intro
03:39 About the Book
05:23 Thoughts on the Book
13:42 Dealing with Bad Code Review Processes
29:18 Process Loopholes, Handling Emergencies, and Hero Mode
42:12 Pair Programming and Mob Programming
56:30 AI tools in code reviews
01:03:59 Final Thoughts

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Carter is anti-anti-jargon. #podcast #softwareengineer #career #programming #coding

Book Overflow 2024-09-08 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/3XosqYv (paid link)

Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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Whats the benefit of adding a junior dev to a code review? #coding #programming #softwareengineer

Book Overflow 2024-09-07 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Looks Good to Me by Adrienne Braganza
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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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What is the vacation factor in software engineering? #programming #coding #teams #tech

Book Overflow 2024-09-06 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Looks Good to Me by Adrienne Braganza
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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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You are not your code! #coding #softwareengineer #tech #programming #podcast

Book Overflow 2024-09-05 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Looks Good to Me by Adrienne Braganza
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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/3XosqYv (paid link)

Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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Stephen Wolfram Reflects on What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?

Book Overflow 2024-09-05 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups sit down with Stephen Wolfram to discuss his book What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work? Tune in as he discusses his initial experiments with OpenAI, how his early work in particle physics influenced his current work with LLMs, and his thoughts on if ChatGPT is truly intelligent!

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What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
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A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
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00:00 Intro
02:37 What motivated you to write this book?
10:36 What is the next level [of intelligence]?
15:44 Is ChatGPT intelligent or just a sophisticated guessing machine?
24:41 What happens if ChatGPT trains on its own output?
31:31 Surprising Behaviors and AI
41:12 No Hallucination, No AI
51:13 Curiosity and Computational Thinking
01:09:29 Closing Thoughts

Original discussion of the book: youtu.be/4gyi9UDSzw4

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How can you use code reviews to shore up your teams weaknesses? #programming #tech #coding

Book Overflow 2024-09-04 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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How can you prepare to be a #freelance #programmer? #tech #coding #programming

How can team agreements help when youre fully remote? #programming #coding #softwareengineer #tech

Book Overflow 2024-09-03 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Looks Good to Me by Adrienne Braganza
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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/3XosqYv (paid link)

Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
amzn.to/3X9rbev (paid link)

Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) explains Eisenhower quadrants #programming #coding #tech #podcast

What can software engineers learn from Animal Farm? #softwareengineer #coding #programming #tech

Book Overflow 2024-09-02 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Looks Good to Me by Adrienne Braganza
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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
amzn.to/3XosqYv (paid link)

Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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The human brain has not evolved nearly as fast as computers. #tech #programming #coding

Discussing Looks Good To Me by Adrienne Braganza (Part 1)

Book Overflow 2024-09-02 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups discuss "Looks Good To Me" by Adrienne Braganza. Join them as they discuss everything about code reviews, including automation, team procedures, and more!

Carter on For Your Amusement: youtu.be/rhdyrTXbvlg?si=9csVUrBEWonG40VY

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Clean Coder by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
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00:00 Intro
04:30 About the Book
07:04 General Thoughts on the Book
12:49 A high-level overview of code reviews
16:14 Learning together, knowledge-sharing, Jargon, Process, and Automation
27:00 Keys to Effective Code Review Process, Roles, and Expectations
46:07 Tools, Platforms, and Patterns Standards for Code Reviews
01:03:46 Closing Thoughts

Tools and technology mentioned in the episode:
- Phabricator en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator
- Phorge (successor to Phabricator) https://we.phorge.it/
- Gerrit gerritcodereview.com
- Conventional Commits conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0
- Github github.com
- Semantic Versioning (SEMVER) semver.org

Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Are low code solutions all theyre cracked up to be? #software #programming #tech #podcast

Book Overflow 2024-09-01 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Whos going to clean the mess of #AI generated code? #coding #chatgpt #llm #programming

Theres a big wide world of #software out there. #programming #tech #podcast #softwareengineer

Book Overflow 2024-08-31 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Carter only possesses two weaknesses. #software #tech #programming #podcast

What can #builders learn from the TCP protocol? #programming #startup #building

How might bad actors take advantage of error handling? #programming #tech #coding

Book Overflow 2024-08-30 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Nathan had to shape up once he got to college. #programming #coding #tech #podcast #software

Book Overflow 2024-08-29 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Does adding more programmers to a project make it go faster? #programming #tech #coding

Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) Shares His Favorite Books

Book Overflow 2024-08-29 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carl Brown (of the YouTube channel Internet of Bugs) joins Carter and Nathan to share some of his favorite books! Carl is incredibly well read and shares which books have influenced him over his very impressive 35 year career.

youtube.com/@UCfJRkBBiPtKZyZn_3PxWaiQ

00:00 Intro
02:17 How did Internet of Bugs come to be?
06:03 Why still read tech books?
08:32 Mythical Man-Month
14:40 Philosophy of Software Design, TCL/TK,
25:56 Advanced Programming in Unix and TCP/IP Illustrated
32:32 How important is it to be well-versed in Unix?
42:27 Freelance, Business, and Consulting book recommendations
52:57 Lightning Round: Managing your programming career, philosophy, and general advice
01:02:34 Final Thoughts

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App Accomplished: Strategies for App Development Success by Carl Brown
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The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks Jr.
amzn.to/4dPBiwa (paid link)

A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Ousterhout
amzn.to/4e5fiwJ (paid link)

Tcl and the Tk Toolkit 1st Edition by John K. Ousterhout
amzn.to/47cUh14 (paid link)

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens
amzn.to/4dJaNbB (paid link)

TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens
amzn.to/477ae97 (paid link)
{Carl says Volumes 2 and 3 are great, too}

Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition) Subsequent Edition by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
amzn.to/3AZIMhe (paid link)

Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live by Daniel H. Pink
amzn.to/47d7AOZ (paid link)

The Computer Consultant's Guide: Real-Life Strategies for Building a Successful Consulting Career 2nd Edition by Janet Ruhl
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Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss
amzn.to/3Mwd1iI (paid link)

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
amzn.to/4cSoiUW (paid link)

The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition: Your Journey to Mastery
by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt, et al.
amzn.to/4dMdAkm (paid link)

My Job Went to India (and All I Got Was This Lousy Book): 52 Ways to Save Your Job (Pragmatic Programmers) 1st Edition by Chad Fowler
amzn.to/3XsYD0U (paid link)

Programming Perl by Tom Christiansen, Randal L. Schwartz, et al.
amzn.to/3Xrvseo (paid link)

Speed Reading: Third Edition by Tony Buzan
amzn.to/3TgGDnY (paid link)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey and Jim Collins
amzn.to/4e9dSRU (paid link)

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
amzn.to/3TeLExg (paid link)

Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners by C. J. Date
amzn.to/4dYmfzQ (paid link)

Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming by Joe Celko
amzn.to/3TenQcP (paid link)

Problem Frames and Methods: Analysing and Structuring Software Development Problems by Michael A. Jackson
amzn.to/3TcyOzw (paid link)

Learning to Classify Text Using Support Vector Machines 2nd Edition by Thorsten Joachims
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Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don't Act On Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should by Terrence Ryan
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Understanding Deep Learning by Simon J.D. Prince
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MENTIONED, BUT NOT REALLY DISCUSSED and NOT NECESSARILY RECOMMENDED:
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Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann Mcdowell
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Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
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Pitch Perfect: The Art of Promoting Your App on the Web by Erica Sadun and Steve Sande
amzn.to/477aDZb (paid link)

Videos and Creators Mentioned in the Podcast
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- Grace Hopper NSA Lecture (1982) youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk
- 3Blue1Brown youtube.com/@UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
- YouTube discussion of Understanding Deep Learning: youtube.com/watch?v=sJXn4Cl4oww

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

How can sacrificial architecture help you reduce your unknown unknowns when designing #software?

Book Overflow 2024-08-28 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

What is meta work in #programming and why do engineers love it? #programming #podcast #tech

Book Overflow 2024-08-27 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

What separates software architecture? #software #tech #programming #podcast

Book Overflow 2024-08-26 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Discussing Building Evolutionary Architectures by Ford, Parsons, Kua, and Sadalage (Part 2)

Book Overflow 2024-08-26 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups discuss "Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage. Join them as they discuss how to evolve your data schema, modern DevOps practices, and common architectural pitfalls and anti-patterns.

00:00 Intro
04:09 About the Book
06:32 Thoughts on the Book
10:10 Evolving Data
25:01 Building Evolvable Architecture
49:39 Pitfalls and Anti-Patterns
01:04:24 Evolutionary Architecture in Practice
01:12:09 Closing Thoughts

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Host of Syntax Podcast Scott Tolinski Shares His Favorite Books

Book Overflow 2024-08-22 | In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups sit down with Scott Tolinski, the host of the web development podcast Syntax. Join the three of them as they discuss Scott's favorite books, his career as a developer, and what you can learn by being a voracious reader!

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00:00 Intro
03:04 Grokking Algorithms
10:30 A Pocket Guide to Debugging
15:00 Paul Arden Books
18:48 Design is a Job
20:33 A Technique for Producing Ideas
24:12 The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
26:38 Eat That Frog, Getting Things Done, 4HWW
32:10 Atomic Habits
38:06 First Job After College
41:52 Curiosity and Showing Up
44:51 It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
50:43 Crucial Conversations
55:48 One Small Step Can Change Your Life
56:49 The Dream Machine, High Growth Handbook, and Stripe Press
01:04:36 Closing Thoughts

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- Grokking Algorithms - amzn.to/4cOkt3m (Paid Link)
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture - amzn.to/4e3kktI (Paid Link)
- A Pocket Guide to Debugging wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide
- It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be amzn.to/3AMRz6t (Paid Link
- Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite amzn.to/3ZfNG3M (Paid Link
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- A Technique for Producing Ideas amzn.to/3TcpcVo (Paid Link)
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up amzn.to/3XbvVQF (Paid Link)
- Eat That Frog amzn.to/3Xttquv (Paid Link)
- Getting Things Done amzn.to/3MtOVVz (Paid Link)
- The 4 Hour Work Week amzn.to/3z3cNw8 (Paid Link)
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- CSS3 for Web Designers amzn.to/4cPZay4 (Paid Link)
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work amzn.to/3XpMmdo (Paid Link)
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- One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way amzn.to/4dKeiyA (Paid Link)
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- High Growth Handbook amzn.to/479vMlq (Paid Link)

Other Creators mentioned in this episode:
- Suckerpinch/Tom7 - youtube.com/@UC3azLjQuz9s5qk76KEXaTvA
- Mark Rober - youtube.com/@UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg
- Syntax Podcast - youtube.com/@UCyU5wkjgQYGRB0hIHMwm2Sg

Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Discussing Building Evolutionary Architectures by Ford, Parsons, Kua, and Sadalage (Part 1)

Book Overflow 2024-08-19 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups discuss "Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage. Join them as they discuss how the approaches to designing software architecture have changed over the years, the purpose of fitness functions, and how trying to re-use code can backfire!

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Apple Design Award Winner Devin Davies Shares His Learning Strategies

Book Overflow 2024-08-15 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups interview Apple Design Award Winner Devin Davies! Devin won the Apple Design Award for his recipe app Crouton, which was featured prominently by the Wall Street Journal for its creative use of the visionOS platform. In keeping with the podcast theme of continuous education, Devin tells the story of how he started Crouton, what he needed to learn to create it, and how he learned it.

This episode is a little outside of our usual fare, so please let us know in the comments if you'd like more of them!

00:00 Intro
03:12 What was the motivation to create Crouton?
05:51 How did you get started in iOS development?
08:11 Porting Crouton to Apple Vision Pro
12:25 Outcome Driven Continuous Learning
15:44 What is the first app you've ever built?
18:49 Transitioning from UIKit to SwiftUI
22:23 Working on Crouton and winning the Apple Design Award
27:57 Perseverance and Time, and saying "Yes." and Education
32:06 Sources of motivation and building a sense of taste
35:02 Contextual Design and Thoughts on Apple Watch
39:34 Taking the Slow Path and Transitioning to Full Time on Crouton
42:11 Closing Thoughts

Resources mentioned in the podcast:
hackingwithswift.com

Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Discussing Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka

Book Overflow 2024-08-12 | In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups discuss "Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better" by Jennifer Pahlka. This book was personally recommended by Brian Kernighan and is about what processes and cultures make government technology so woefully inadequate. Join Carter and Nathan as they discuss agile vs. waterfall, the importance of a good business culture, and possible infringements on civil liberties!

00:00 Opener
01:00 Intro
05:19 Thoughts on the Book
10:33 Red Tape, Risk Aversion, and Systemic Issues in Government Tech
22:40 Dog Fooding, Putting the User First, User-Centric Design
29:48 Project Scope, Waterfall, and Agile
40:44 Core Competency, Brittle System Design, Emergent Dysfunction, and Vision of the Future
51:17 Final Thoughts, concerns over the role of technology in government, Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Overreach
01:02:15 What will you do differently?
01:04:45 Who should read this book?
01:07:03 Wrap Up

Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

Robert Uncle Bob Martin Reflects on Clean Coder

Book Overflow 2024-08-08 | In this very special episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups are joined by the prolific Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin to discuss his book "Clean Coder." Join them as Uncle Bob talks about his thoughts on the "flow zone," humility, and what coding has to do with flying an airplane!

You can find Carter and Nathan's original discussion of "Clean Coder" here: youtu.be/RkxVB1eNdCc

00:00 Intro
03:29 Motivation for writing Clean Coder
06:00 Learning from Life Experiences
09:39 Professionalism and the Challenger Story
17:14 Pros and Cons of Flow State (The Zone)
21:10 Learning from your mistakes
24:11 Sobriety (and a story of getting drunk at a party)
30:17 Timeless advice, Professionalism, and saying No
35:39 Blameless Postmortems and taking responsibility
40:03 Agency, Control, Situational Awareness and Culture
43:58 Unconventional career paths and creativity
53:00 Layers of Abstraction
56:16 Thoughts on AI and LLMs
01:00:58 Book Recommendations
01:06:49 Closing Thoughts

Books Referenced in this Episode:
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- Clean Coder by Robert Martin amzn.to/3z3Sf6G (Paid Link)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman amzn.to/3TeLRk2 (Paid Link)
- Functional Design by Robert Martin amzn.to/3Z5Lzj1

Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io

What constitutes a good abstraction in #programming? #softwareengineer #tech #coding

Book Overflow 2024-08-07 | Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at bookoverflow.io