The Balanced Engineer • Issue #42
Revisiting engineering management practices, embracing GitHub culture, appreciating the Ruby on Rails community, and chatting with industry leaders in our podcast!
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This week's newsletter highlights three articles about modern CSS tools that make SPAs outdated and unnecessary, giving/receiving feedback, and personas of AI developers by Jono Alderson, Ashley Willis, and Thomas Dhomke!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!