The Balanced Engineer • Issue #41
Switching to monthly updates, sharing coding and problem-solving insights, and my recent podcast episodes.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #40
Exploring an AI bootcamp for engineers, challenging tech 'broligarchs', and some latest projects!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #39
Sharing Josh W. Comeau's new Whimsical Animations course plus a shout-out to MagnoliaConf!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #38
The things I'm most excited about from CascadiaJS: MCP and the Agentic Web, ATProto, Developer Advocacy, Langflow, Reboot, GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and the developer community, plus a plug for MagnoliaConf!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #37
Mastering GitHub's Copilot coding agent, measuring developer productivity using the SPACE model with AI, and training your attention muscles, with articles from Alexandra Lietzke, Lizzie Matusov, and Danny Kenny!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #36
Coding agents, the current job market, and the 996 work culture with articles from Steve Yegge, Gergely Orosz, and Armin Ronacher.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #35
Taking Labor Day off for balance, plus a few updates from Overcommitted.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #34
Diving into Big O Notation, exploring AI content norms, and understanding the management skill that nobody talks about with content from Sam Rose, Sean Goedecke, and Matheus Lima!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #33
Learning from aging, valuing what truly matters and building a personal brand.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #32
Diving into AI influences on web usage, overcoming imposter syndrome, and biases in evaluating colleagues with article summaries from Tim Kellogg, Mike Fisher, and Chris Stokel-Walker!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #31
This week's newsletter highlights three articles about modern CSS tools that make SPAs outdated and unnecessary, giving/receiving feedback, and personas of AI developers by Jono Alderson, Ashley Willis, and Thomas Dhomke!
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #30
Breaking down AI reasoning, mastering async comm and evaluating AI hype with videos and articles from Annie Sexton, Lizzie Matusov, and Korny Sietsma.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #29
Master GitHub staff engineer's code review methods, explore how 'Women in Tech' falls short, and understand how adding value for shareholders can boost your purpose as we learn from Sarah Vessels, Salma Alam-Naylor, and Sean Goedecke.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #28
The Balanced Engineer Newsletter Week of July 14, 2025 • Issue # 28 🔧 Technical Excellence Building skills that last beyond any framework Learnings from two...
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #27
Today's newsletter brings you articles from Kyle Shevlin, Mike Bifulco, and Martin Fowler.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #26
Diving back into community learning, curating insightful engineering content and exploring mindsets in the tech industry, featuring writing from Sean Goedecke, Marc Brooker, and Jason Lengstorf.
Brag docs: Tracking career progress with brag docs
Just back from Gophercon EU, I’m sharing how brag docs can boost your performance reviews!
Code Reviews: Managing review workload
How to create a personal workflow to keep up with code review requests, plus some bonus talk about prepping for Gophercon EU!
Code Reviews: Writing Good PRs
This week we are talking about how to write a good pull request!
Code Reviews: A How to Guide
June brings sunny vibes in the PNW as I dive into sharing my code review strategies!
Artificial Intelligence: Polishing
I'm off to Disney World, but I've prepped insights on using AI for polishing your coding and writing to finish up our May topic!
Artificial Intelligence: Debugging
We celebrate 300 subscribers, explore AI examples for debugging, and share some new content for the week!
Artificial Intelligence: Brainstorming
After a fulfilling week of bonding with my team in Atlanta, I share tips on using AI for creative brainstorming!
Artificial Intelligence: AI, LLMs, MCP, ABC, DEF, and other acronyms
This week, I reflect on Boise Code Camp and kick off a busy month diving into AI!
Mentoring: Creating Effective Mentorship Programs
How to craft effective mentorship programs for your organization.
Mentoring: How to Find a Mentor
This edition covers how to find mentors and how to nurture those relationships!
Mentoring: How to Mentor
I’m celebrating 100 subscribers while sharing essential mentoring strategies for engineers! 🎉
Mentoring: How to be Mentored
This month we are talking about mentoring. This issue dives into how to be mentored!
Observability and monitoring in distributed systems
This week, I tackled the essentials of observability and monitoring in distributed systems to ensure you can find issues when they occur.
Geographic distribution and disaster recovery in distributed systems
This edition dives into multi-region strategies for geographic distribution and disaster recovery.
Building Fault Tolerance into Distributed Systems
This week in The Balanced Engineer Newsletter, we delve into designing fault tolerance into your distributed systems and why failures are inevitable.
Concurrency in Distributed Systems
This week, I'm diving into concurrency challenges in distributed systems and how to tackle them!
Understanding Scalability in Distributed Systems
This edition of The Balanced Engineer Newsletter dives into scalability in distributed systems, covering challenges for reaching scalability and common approaches!
Visibility: Writing
This week, I'm urging software engineers to embrace writing for greater visibility and influence.
Visibility: Social Media
This week, we discuss harnessing social media for professional visibility as a software engineer.
Visibility: Personal Branding
If the term “Personal Brand” makes you cringe, you're not alone. But after diving deeper into the topic this week, I’ve come to believe that developing your...
Visibility: Internal Visibility
February Theme: Visibility This month, we're diving into the topic of visibility—a key aspect of building your career and influence as a software engineer....
Availability: Incident Investigation
I saved my favorite topic related to Availability for last this month: Incident Investigation. It is near and dear to my heart, having changed careers to...
Availability: Dependency Management
January Theme: Availability Last week we talked about SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets. Check it out if you missed it! Today we are going to talk about...
Availability: SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets
January Theme: Availability Last week we talked about availability and how it’s measured here. Check it out if you missed it! Today we are going to talk...
Availability: How is it measured?
This edition dives into software availability, its measurement, and why it's crucial for success.