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Jason Roell
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Jason Roell writes The Curious Programmer, a personal blog at jasonroell.com about programming and career. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “12 Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Roell's 2015 post listing 12 influential books for software engineers. One commenter notes it is the original source of a list also shared on LinkedIn.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jason Roell writes about AI engineering, software architecture and the craft of building software. Head of Engineering at Vurvey.
Most-linked posts?
- 12 Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-04
- 12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Overtime I've built my own list of lists. Books lists for Hacker News: https://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews http://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/ https://mapfilterfold.com/?genre=programming Most mentioned in Stackoverflow: https://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/all Other aggregated lists: http://developeronfire.com/book-recommendations https://medium.com/…
Comment linking /2015/03/16/12-most-infuential-books-every-software-engineer-needs-to-read/
on “Most-recommended programming books”Submitted 12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis seems like the same list as https://jasonroell.com/2015/03/16/12-most-infuential-books-e... . The main differences seem to be the original source has pictures and the linkedin article has the honorable mention for head first design patterns. If you somehow can't access the linkedin site and just want the list, this seems an easier resource.
Comment linking /2015/03/16/12-most-infuential-books-every-software-engineer-needs-to-read/
on “12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read”Submitted 12 Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned from My Buddy’s Interview with Amazon (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read as a story · 1 points
HN discussion