Reading List. Week 33, 2025

Here are some things I’ve read recently, related to work, that caught my attention, shared without comment.

• How I made the transition from Developer to Engineering Manager
• Authority and Competence
• Code style is a mirror, not a metric
• How/why to get good at debugging your mind
• So You Are a Manager Now
• Everything I know about good system design
• Reverse Proxy Deep Dive (Part 2): Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks
• Why Kindness Isn’t a Nice to Have
• Pause – Decision-Making Superpower
• The Decision Triangle: a simple way to improve decision making
• The Most Underestimated Factor in Estimation - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology