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  1. The Sovereign Engineer
    AI Literacy for Software Professionals
    Russ Miles

    AI is an amplifier. It magnifies whatever engineering discipline — or lack of it — already exists, which means the bottleneck was never AI's capability; it is the collaboration space you design around it. This book is a six-level progression from early AI panic to sovereign engineering: the discipline of designing the environment in which human and artificial intelligence produce work worth keeping. It moves past prompting into the practices that compound — verification, habitat engineering, specification-first development, and the platform discipline that scales the practice across teams. The habitat is yours to design. Let's build it well.

  2. Most companies claim to be agile. Few actually are. The rituals changed; the waterfall mindset survived. This guide shows what real agile looks like through one concrete story: an empowered team going from business problem to measurable impact in eight weeks. Continuous discovery, TDD, feature flags, no story points. Practices you can put to work on Monday.

  3. SimPy: Simulation in Python
    A pratical guide
    Afonso C. Medina

    Here is the English translation:Learn to build discrete-event simulation models and agent-based simulation models using SimPy, a Python library.

  4. Project Lifecycles
    How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
    Johanna Rothman

    Too many teams feel stuck in fake agility, with a years-long backlog, rampant multitasking, and little chance to do great work. That's waterfall masquerading as an agile approach. Instead, assess your risks and culture to design your lifecycle. Based on your risks, decide how and when to iterate over features and when to deliver value—real agility.

  5. The is more to AI than Large Language models. Here we explore Symbolic AI with the Prolog language.

  6. Hands on Labs to prepare you for a career in Linux or system engineering. Built by the Professional Linux User's Group to focus on exactly what the professional needs in the enterprise.

  7. Visual Collaboration Tools
    for teams building software
    João Rosa, Kenny Baas-Schwegler, Nick Tune, Mathias Verraes, Henning Schwentner, Cédric Pontet, Stefan Hofer, Trond Hjorteland, Pim Smeets, Krisztina Hirth, Gojko Adzic, Nancy Beers, Julius Gamanyi, Paul de Raaij, Michael Plöd, Zsofia Herendi, Gayathri Thiyagarajan, Dawn Ahukanna, Devon Burriss, Steve Pereira, Rich Allen, and Matthew Skelton

    Visual Collaboration Tools is a book for teams building software. It describes tools that help us in our daily job, and also present field stories from different practitioners.

  8. Git y GitHub desde cero
    Guía de estudio teórico-práctica paso a paso más curso en vídeo
    Brais Moure

    Aprender a trabajar con Git y GitHub es una habilidad esencial como programador. Esta es una guía de estudio teórico-práctica paso a paso y desde cero más un curso de 5 horas en vídeo 100% gratis. 45 lecciones, decenas de comandos y casos prácticos reunidos en un único lugar para comenzar a usar rápidamente Git y GitHub de manera profesional.

  9. Shell of an Idea
    The untold history of PowerShell
    Don Jones

    The Untold History of PowerShell

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