Languages

• Python For its versatility and expansive libraries
• Elixir For its superb concurrency capabilities and fault tolerance
• Go For its simplicity and fast compilation times
• Swift For its advanced type system and protocols

Projects

• ETHAlert Ethereum News and Tickers
• Dropsector Web based, passwordless, basic file storage with phone login
• Swift by Example Learn the Swift programming language by example
• Erlang by Example Learn Erlang/OTP through small examples

Thought Provoking

• Hacker News
• Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
• Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
• The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit
• An Engineer's guide to Stock Options
• The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer
• Tech as a Taste-Based Industry
• John Cleese on Creativity

Great Books

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman