Reading list

Programming and design books I’ve found useful at work (or just interesting).

Civic technology

• A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell
• Power to the Public: The Power of Public Interest Technology by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank
• Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

Programming

• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
• Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
• High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik
• Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering
• Relevant Search by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman
• Software Estimation by Steve McConnell
• Understanding Distributed Systems by Robert Vitillo

Design

• Atomic Design by Brad Frost
• Design Systems by Alla Kholmatova
• Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication-Oriented Techniques by Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano
• Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick
• The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist by Fred Brooks

Project management

• The agile comms handbook by Giles Turnbull
• Project Management for Humans by Brett Harned
• Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager by Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood
• The Web Project Guide by Corey Vilhauer and Deane Barker