As of May 2021
- Local-first software by Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, Mark McGranaghan
- The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction by Jay Kreps
- PHP: a fractal of bad design by Eevee
- Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses by Geoffrey Litt & Peter van Hardenberg
- The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done by Cal Newport
- Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work by Cal Newport
- Your team should work like an open source project by Ryan Tomayko
- A World Without Email by Cal Newport
- Accelerate by Jez Humble, Gene Kim, Nicole Forsgren (90-page excerpt)
- Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald M. Weinberg
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
- Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg
- Everything by Edward Tufte
- Peopleware by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
- Data-Oriented Programming by Yehonathan Sharvit
- The GraphQL Guide by John Resig and Loren Sands-Ramshaw
- Infrastructure as Code by Kief Morris
- Programming Beyond Practices by Gregory T. Brown
- Staff Engineer by Will Larson
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
- Branch in Time by Tekin Suleyman
- Changing the World by Erica Joy Baker
- The Hard Parts Of Open Source by Evan Czaplicki
- Legacy by Chard Fowler
- Turning the database inside out by Martin Kleppmann (written version)
Another book on my radar: Event Streaming with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB