Friday Links: Becoming a senior dev, coding, and phones
12 Dec 2025 #mondaylinksHey, it’s been a busy week. I’ve been preparing my last book for publish on Amazon, so I didn’t read that much.
But I still want to share some interesting reads. Here are my top 3 most read posts from the quarter plus a funny weekend project.
#1. I always joke that I don’t know when “Senior” made it into my job title. But I know it was thanks to good mentors. Here are 5 lessons from one of my mentors (4min). I’ve been following lesson #1 since I met him…Well, not in the past week.
#2. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “get good at coding”? Younger me only thought about learning programming languages. But here are 7 unconventional ways to improve your coding skills (3min).
#3. I’d do a lot differently if I were a junior again. Here’s one lesson I wish I had known 10 years ago (3min). That would have made me a well-rounded coder.
#4. What if we could slam a phone after a boring Zoom call? That was the side project of someone who turned a rotary phone into a meeting handset (8min).
Speaking of coding, are you following the Advent of Code? I have. I missed a couple of days, but I’m catching up this weekend. Here’s my last solution: Advent of Code Day 6: Doing Cephalopods’ Math (3min).
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See you next time,
Cesar