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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 21h

Pragmatic Picks:
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📙 Modern Front End Development for Rails
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Noel Rappin @noelrappin.com · 22h

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 22h

"Stephen’s second book knocks it out of the park. Stephen is the ultimate Sherpa providing essential tools and sage advice to take the leap into a world of concurrency, simplicity, and power." -- Amos King, Founder, Binary Noggin

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 1d

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 1d

"It's such a refreshing change to see a highly technical book that brings a human element alongside technical excellence. It really does feel like Miki is speaking and teaching you, personally." -- Adelina Simion, Spectro Cloud.
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 1d

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Circles and Soup -a collaboration technique to help teams visualize issues & take action. End the blame game; run more meaningful retrospectives.
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 1d

📘 Agile Retrospectives, 2nd Edition
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📕 Effective Go Recipes
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📗 From Ruby to Elixir
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📙 Modern Front End Development for Rails
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 1d

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 2d

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView
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Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up
Practical A/B Testing
Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition
Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

Program Management for Open Source Projects
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

The Stress Equation (Including Audio Book)
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

Beta Update - The Healthy Programmer, Second Edition by Joe Kutner
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Refactor Your Fitness, Improve Your Mind
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

Alongside the book, you’ll find a production-ready library that implements these abstractions—fully tested, well documented, and ready to use.
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

Jack the Ripper had patterns. So does your codebase. Learn to spot hotspots and catch your own offenders in Your Code as a Crime Scene by Adam Tornhill.

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

Build a culture where failure doesn’t sting, it teaches. Teams test freely, learn fast, and treat being wrong as progress. Experimentation powers growth in Practical A/B Testing by Leemay Nassery

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

We talk about technical debt in code, but what about data? Without shared ownership, data debt builds fast and invisibly.

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 4d

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 5d

"This is a wonderful collection of math puzzles, some traditional, others new. There’s plenty here to challenge the most seasoned puzzle solver." -- Walt Mankowski, Senior Data Analyst, University of Pennsylvania.

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 5d

Real time updates in LiveView may feel like magic, but it's math. Efficient rendering and minimal data transfer make large tables feel instant.

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See how in Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView by @peterullrich.com
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