Episode · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2024-12-11
Books mentioned on Notion: going native on iOS and Android
Supported by Our Partner DX → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers — In today’s exciting episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by two members of the Notion mobile apps team, Austin Louden and Karn Saheb.
Austin Louden recommended Skunk Works by Leo Janos and others. Gergely Orosz recommended A Philosophy of Software Design by John K. Ousterhout.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Skunk Works
Skunk Works by Leo Janos and Ben R.
Recommended“I recently read Skunk Works by Ben Rich which is about the engineering team at Lockheed Martin um kind of during a period of very critical years uh you know they worked on the SR71 Blackbird”
Where to get it
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A Philosophy of Software Design
A Philosophy of Software Design by John K.
Recommended“but uh I've been recently rereading a philosophy of software design by John osterhouse um and you know it's about sort of managing complexity in software and sort of like the tricks that you can use to sort of reframe some of your problems”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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