- Robust Python by Patrick Viafore
- Amazing resource on various aspects of writing robust Python code affecting readability, extensibility, and maintainability. The author gives a concise and practical overview of the topics and provides a lot of useful tips and tricks.
- Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us by Dan Lyons
- Biting critique of the work culture in today's tech companies
- Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts by David Gerard
- Hilarious and insightful book outlining the history of the cryptocurrency craze and the technical and social problems with the technology
- Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity - What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder
- Fascinating book by the founder of OkCupid about various insights gained from analyzing massive datasets from dating platforms and other social media sites
- Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
- Tremendously well written introduction to dialectical materialism and Marx's critique of capitalism. Also a great starting point for anyone looking to learn about dialectics in general!
- Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas - Five Stories of Psychotherapy by Deborah Anna Luepnitz
- Interesting case studies of psychotherapy patients and their struggles with intimacy
- Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs by Peter Jang
- Answering some of the (absolutely appropriate) questions that arise when diving into frontend development, like "Why do I need node.js, a runtime for server-side applications, when I just want to write a client-side app?"
- What Color is Your Function?
- What Colour are your bits?
- Ideology by Gary Bernhardt
- Engaging talk about unknown unknowns in software engineering philosophies
- Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
- The Birth & Death of JavaScript by Gary Bernhardt
- A humorous talk "from the future" about how JavaScript became the dominant programming language in the world and how it eventually led to the downfall of civilization
- Wat by Gary Bernhardt
- The famous lightning talk exploring JavaScript's quirks
- Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks by Kevlin Henney
- The Mess We're In by Joe Armstrong
- Hugely enjoyable talk on how and why software development has become as complex and messy as it is today
- Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz
- Software Engineering's Greatest Hits by Greg Wilson
- A fun (and sobering) look at the measured (vs. claimed) effectiveness of software development practices such as TDD
