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  1. The Sovereign Engineer
    AI Literacy for Software Professionals
    Russ Miles

    AI is an amplifier. It magnifies whatever engineering discipline — or lack of it — already exists, which means the bottleneck was never AI's capability; it is the collaboration space you design around it. This book is a six-level progression from early AI panic to sovereign engineering: the discipline of designing the environment in which human and artificial intelligence produce work worth keeping. It moves past prompting into the practices that compound — verification, habitat engineering, specification-first development, and the platform discipline that scales the practice across teams. The habitat is yours to design. Let's build it well.

  2. How To Be A Tech Lead
    A practical guide for new and experienced tech leads to increase their confidence, effectiveness, and impact
    Michael Rice

    Are you a new tech lead who wants to know what the expectations are? An experienced tech lead who needs to be more impactful? In this short book, the founder of the Tech Lead Coaching Network and experienced software manager and leader will explain the role and five core capabilities you need to be confident and impactful in the role.

  3. Scoring Sound
    Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider
    Thor Magnusson

    Scoring Sound covers the basic approaches to sound synthesis, algorithmic composition and instrument design in SuperCollider. This tutorial has been used in workshops around the world for over a decade, and was included in the MIT Press SuperCollider Book.

  4. asyncio from ground up
    A working Mental Model for Python asyncio
    Ritesh Modi

    Most asyncio tutorials introduce async and await on page one and ask you to take the runtime on faith. This book does it the other way around. You build a working event loop in thirty lines of plain Python — no asyncio import — and meet the keywords as labels for parts of a runtime you have already watched run. By the end, async Python stops being intimidating and starts being readable.

  5. Master the Art of Gathering Requirements
    Your Path to Clear, Reliable and high-quality information
    Edgar Fernandez

    A practical, real-world guide to gathering software requirements with clarity, confidence, and precision. Learn proven techniques to eliminate ambiguity, reduce rework, and communicate effectively with clients and teams. Upgrade your skills now and stand out at work before poor requirements keep holding you back.

  6. Use Vim Like A Pro
    Learn to Understand and Use Vim Effectively
    Tim Ottinger

    This may be the one tiny book that changes your experience vim from one of "memorizing random key sequences" to "composing vim commands."This is an intentionally small micro-book, not a comprehensive guide to all the features of this amazingly powerful editor. The tutorial can elevate your practice and enable deeper learning and better retention of vim commands. Go from "conversant" to "capable" more rapidly than you expected!

  7. Collaboration Games
    from the Growing Agile Toolbox
    Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing
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  8. Learn how to use Python for modern engineering applications like Image and Video processing, Audio, Raspberry Pi, amongst other things, in this highly practical course.

  9. Git y GitHub desde cero
    Guía de estudio teórico-práctica paso a paso más curso en vídeo
    Brais Moure

    Aprender a trabajar con Git y GitHub es una habilidad esencial como programador. Esta es una guía de estudio teórico-práctica paso a paso y desde cero más un curso de 5 horas en vídeo 100% gratis. 45 lecciones, decenas de comandos y casos prácticos reunidos en un único lugar para comenzar a usar rápidamente Git y GitHub de manera profesional.

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