Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night"
Why Programmers Work at Night" is a book exploring the habits and lifestyle of programmers, examining why many choose to work during nighttime hours. Written with humor and engaging storytelling, it combines… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night" launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A book on how to work more effectively w/ freelance devs
2015 · its alternatives →
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After a four year journey, the book I wrote to help junior and mid-level programmers earn their first promotion was published today . The book is titled Junior to Senior: Career Advice for the Ambitious Programmer and is now available on Holloway’s website[0]. I truly believe that soft-skills are what makes the difference between a good programmer and a great one. I also believe that anyone can learn the soft-skills needed to accelerate their programming career. I wish I’d had better resources to learn these things in the early years of my career and I’m hoping this book will become a useful…
2022 · holloway.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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A riveting history of programming
2017 · theprogrammersodyssey.com · its alternatives →
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A book about the software development career. Independent of any particular programming language, framework, or methodology.
2020 · 14habits.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wrote a book on programming called The Elements of Code. I put the entire book online here: https://elementsofcode.io/ When mentoring (usually new) programmers, I noticed there were a few common mistakes that seemed to account for about 80% of the complexity in their code. I couldn’t find a concise guide to fixing those mistakes, so I decided to write one. The title is an homage to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, which is the classic guide for communicating well using prose. That guide is quite tactical in nature, and I wanted to parallel its focus in The…
2021 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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Essential Skills and Concepts For The Self-taught Programmer
2016 · bigmachine.io · its alternatives →
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Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey! I’m JC. I’m 17 and part of Hack Club, a nonprofit where we help teenagers ship programming projects with their friends while growing technically. A while ago, I asked myself the question, “How exactly do programming languages work behind the scenes?” It seemed really daunting until I went to a half hour workshop at a high school hackathon about writing a tree-walk interpreter and realized that getting started was actually super fun. This guide is designed in the vein of that - to get people, especially teenagers, started on learning how to build a programming language in a literal…
2024 · easel.hackclub.com · its alternatives →
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Humor only programmers can understand
2021 · programmerhumor.io · its alternatives →
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How to help more people discover software development
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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Going from first time designer to published and full time
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
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A programmer's guide to building products, tech & teams
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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"A must read for anyone that designs interfaces for humans"
2014 · cadence.cc · its alternatives →
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2011 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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