A few weeks back I attended React Europe in Paris. It was on its own a very interesting conference with tons of great talks, all available on YouTube. This post, however, will not deal with the awesomeness of Redux or the potential of GraphQL.

At the Automattic (most notably the company behind Wordpress.com) conference booth I was able to get my hands on a book called “The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work” by Scott Berkun. I covers the author’s experience of working as a team lead at Automattic for about two years, and since that sounds fairly boring, I think we understand the reason for the click-baity title.

There are a few books that are recurring on the “top 10 books every software engineer must read”-lists on the Internet, and one of them is The Mythical Man-Month. I’ve been trying to read more nonfiction lately, and especially books that deal with software and its development process. As a result I’ve had The Mythical Man-Month on my nightstand for the last few weeks.

The book was originally published in 1975 and received an update for its 20th anniversary, which included a few extra chapters. The author, Fred Brooks, received a Turing Award for his efforts in the field of computing in 1999.