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All the Resources You Need to Become a Senior Engineer and Beyond

Path to Senior Engineer Handbook

Table of Contents

• Newsletters
• Books
• Courses
• YouTube
• Podcasts
• Communities
• LinkedIn

Newsletters

General

• High Growth Engineer
• The Developing Dev
• Level up software engineering
• Engineer’s Codex
• Coding Challenges
• EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter
• Techlead Mentor
• The Caring Techie
• Refactoring
• Strategize Your Career
• Saiyan Growth Letter
• Software Design: Tidy First?
• Dev Interrupted
• The Pragmatic Engineer
• TLDR
• Pointer.io

Frameworks and smart thinking

• Wes Kao's Newsletter
• Alex Brogan frameworks

System Design

• System Design Newsletter
• ByteByteGo Newsletter
• Byte-Sized Design
• The Polymathic Engineer

Leadership

• The Hybrid Hacker
• Leading Developers
• Engineering Leadership
• Addy Osmani (RSS Link)

Web-Dev

• TLDR Web Dev
• Frontend Focus
• Frontend Engineering
• Smashing Magazine
• Kent C Dodds
• Josh Comeau (RSS Link)
• Friday Front-end
• CSS Weekly

Books

Communication, Writing, & Relationships

• Crucial conversations
• Smart Brevity
• The Fine Art of Small Talk
• 92 ways to talk to anyone
• Connect: Building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues
• What got you here won’t get you there
• Communication for Engineers
• Thanks for the Feedback
• Just Listen: Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone
• Simply Said: Communicating better at work and beyond
• Crucial influence
• Radical candor
• Engineering management for the rest of us
• Crucial accountability
• It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences
• On writing well

Storytelling

• Storyworthy

Career Growth and Promotions

• Omar Halabieh 90-day career blueprint
• Get Promoted

Engineering

• A philosophy of software design
• Web scalability for startup engineers

Software Engineer Overall

• Software Engineer's Guidebook
• Engineers Survival Guide
• The Coding Career Handbook
• The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide

Leadership

• The Manager’s Path
• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
• The Staff Engineer’s Path
• The Coaching Habit
• The Advice Trap
• The making of a manager

Persuasion & Influence

• Influence: The psychology of persuasion
• Yes - 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive

Productivity

• The productivity project
• Make time

User Experience

• Don’t make me think
• Refactoring UI

Thinking Smarter

• Clear thinking
• Thinking fast and slow
• Super thinking: The big book of mental models
• The art of thinking clearly
• Thinking in systems

Courses

• Mid-level to Senior Course by Jordan Cutler
• Josh Comeau CSS course
• Josh Comeau React course
• Kent C Dodds Epic React
• Frontendmasters subscription
• Kent C Dodds Epic Web
• Udemy courses

YouTube

Broad news and opinions in tech

• Theo - t3.gg
• Fireship
• ThePrimeTime / Primeagen

Senior+ Soft skills

• LeadDev
• Lenny’s Podcast
• Charisma on Command

Frontend/CSS Tips and Tricks

• Kevin Powell
• Web Dev Simplified
• Matt Pocock (Typescript)
• Sam Selikoff

Productivity, Side Income, & Personal Growth

• Ali Abdaal
• Jeff Su
• Thomas Frank
• Matt D’Avella
• Clark Kegley

Podcasts

• Soft skills Podcast
• Staff Eng Podcast
• Frontend First Podcast

Communities

• Taro
• Small Bets Community
• Theo - T3
• Frontend Mentor
• Kent C. Dodds Discord Community

LinkedIn

• Jordan Cutler
• Gregor Ojstersek
• Gergely Orosz
• Nicola Ballotta
• Alex Chiou
• Rahul Pandey
• Caleb Mellas
• John Crickett
• Ryan Peterman
• Alex Xu
• Zach Wilson
• Wes Kao
• Omar Halabieh
• Raviraj Achar
• Irina Stanescu
• Richard Donovan
• Luca Rossi
• Anton Zaides
• Neo Kim
• Dallon Asnes
• Tiger Abrodi
• Daniel Moka
• Mads Brodt
• James Willett
• Anemari Fiser
• Mike Thornton
• Dariusz Sadowski
• Adrian Stanek
• Steven Syrek
• Doug Howard
• Casey Dai
• Petar Ivanov
• Alex Kliotzkin
• Nordine Hadi