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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. Agent Engineering using Claude
    Engineering Reliable AI Agents with Claude
    Venkatesh Tadinada

    Most agent books teach prompts and frameworks. Agent Engineering teaches the judgment and engineering discipline required to build AI agents that are reliable, secure, testable, and ready for production. Follow a practical Claude-based project from first agent to production-grade autonomous system—and receive every future update to this early-access edition.

  3. A Short Guide to Naming
    Understand how and why to better name modules, classes, functions, and variables.
    Tim Ottinger

    if you've read my chapter on naming in a famous software book (first or second edition) you may want to go a little deeper. Same author, same topic, all-new content!

  4. Rust Full-Stack Development with AI Pair Programming
    Learn full-stack Rust by building a complete, production-level FDX banking platform — backend, frontend, security, testing, and AIassisted development. Whether you’re a seasoned engineer or a beginner to modern Rust, this book takes you from concept to deployment through a fully working application designed for today’s real-world software teams.
    Konstantin Pupkov
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  5. 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.

  6. No One is Coming to Save You
    The Power-Ups to Help Surf the Chaos
    Stuart Young and Dave Prior

    No One is Coming to Save You is your no-fluff guide to thriving in chaos. Forget trends and templates—this book delivers the essential human skills (“Power-Ups”) you need to survive and grow in an uncertain world. Straight talk, real stories, and practical tools from two people who’ve failed forward so you don’t have to.

  7. Use Vim Like A Pro
    Learn to Understand and Use Vim Effectively
    Tim Ottinger

    This may be the one tiny book that changes your experience vim from one of "memorizing random key sequences" to "composing vim commands."This is an intentionally small micro-book, not a comprehensive guide to all the features of this amazingly powerful editor. The tutorial can elevate your practice and enable deeper learning and better retention of vim commands. Go from "conversant" to "capable" more rapidly than you expected!

  8. Data platform interviews test CDC, streaming, warehouse modeling, and trade-offs two levels deep — no generic system-design book covers it. This one does: 50 full mock interviews, 122 rapid-fire Q&A, and the framework that turns a vague prompt into a hire.

  9. PowerShell 101
    The No-Nonsense Guide to Windows PowerShell
    Mike F. Robbins

    This book starts with the basics of PowerShell and uses a step-by-step approach to build up to complex concepts. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this book will help you become more proficient with PowerShell. By the time you finish this book, your skills will be as well-integrated as the seamless components in the cover artwork.

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