Influences

These are some noteworthy books, talks/screencasts, and articles I've consumed, mostly in the engineering vein.

Books

The Pragmatic Programmer
Refactoring: Ruby Edition
Talent Is Overrated
The Ruby Programming Language

Talks & Screencasts

Destroy All Software (the entire catalog of 90 screencasts)
Go Ahead, Make a Mess (Sandi Metz at GoGaRuCo 2012)
Idea to Delivery: Application Development in the Modern Age (Adam Wiggins at Waza 2012)
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (Rob Pike at Waza 2012)

Articles

The Twelve-factor App
Immutability in Ruby (part 1, part 2)

Conservation of Decisions (conserve your willpower)