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I listen to these frequently: - Software Engineering Radio - Signals and Threads - Developer Voices - Happy Path Programming

To get started board books and we also had a book with pictures of a 1000 everyday objects which both my kids loved.

Then for older than the first few months, my kids loved Maisy books, Spot books, various Julia Donaldsons, Percy the Park Keeper and Hairy Maclarey to name a few.

Good luck with all of it!

I posted this link and found out about it on episide 121 of a podcast called Happy Path Programming, which Bruce Eckel hosts. I was aware that he had started and subsequently abandoned writing the book, so was excited to hear he had used Claude to clean up all of his old material for the book.

Signals and Threads, The Pragmatic Engineer, Maintainable, Book Overflow, Happy Path Programming

I second this. I joined a second hand Lego Whatsapp group a while ago and that's made it far more affordable.

My key takeaway from the book is the importance of conceptual integrity and how hard this is to achieve the bigger the team. I think this is just as true today as it ever has been before.

On the human readability concern, we use protobuf converted to text format. It looks JSON like so very readable and comes with all the other benefits of protobuf.

I was going to mention Peter Naurs paper as well. It's fundamentally changed the way I think about software. The projects I've seen that are in the most trouble are those where the current devs haven't had the opportunity to work closely with developers that understood the codebase well.

Have a look at a site called neetcode. They offer collections of leetcode problems that are representative of what you'd see in an interview. They have tutorial videos for each problem, which should help you get back up to speed with these sort of problems.

Completely agree. Beyond being of interest in its own right, "There exists" is a prerequisite for further work in finding a practical approach to find the path.

In regards to a career as a quant, the top firms may focus on "young geniuses" but there will be plenty of places where your profile would be just fine. It's a broad industry!

That sounds interesting. Do you have a link?