Here’s a selection of my favourite talks and articles. It’s not exactly a reading list becuase most are videos, but hopefully they’re still useful to you!
Ideas & architecture
- Simplicity Matters — Video — Rich Hickey
- The Language of the System — Video — Rich Hickey
- The Value of Values — Video — Rich Hickey
- Turning the Database Inside Out — Video and article — Martin Kleppmann
- Immutability: Putting The Dream Machine To Work — Video — David Nolen
- The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks — Article — David Nolen
- Immutable Data and React — Video — Lee Byron
- The Immutable App Architecture — Video — Lee Byron
- The Elm Architecture — Article — Elm Documentation
- Let’s be mainstream! — Video and article — Evan Czaplicki
- Impossible Programs — Video — Tom Stuart
- K Things I Know About Building Resilient Reactive Systems – Video – Joe Armstrong
- Minimal API Surface Area - Video - Sebastian Markbage
HTML & CSS
- About HTML semantics and front-end architecture — Article — Nicolas Gallagher
- Code Smells in CSS — Article — Harry Roberts
Tools & technology
- RxJS 5 — Video — Ben Lesh
- Evolving Complex Systems Incrementally — Video — Christoph Pojer
- Exploring GraphQL — Video — Lee Byron
Distributed systems
I think dist-sys will become increasingly important for frontenders into the future so… read up!
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems — Article and video — Alvaro Videla
- There is No Now — Article — Justin Sheehy
You could also check out my distributed systems reading list.
Professional Practice
- On Being A Senior Engineer — Article – John Allspaw
- Hammock Driven Development – Video – Rich Hickey
- Mastering Programming — Article — Kent Beck