Thorsten Ball:
Here's what I consider to be the basics. I call them that not because they're easy, but because they're fundamental. The foundation on which your advanced skills and expertise rest. Multipliers and nullifiers, makers and breakers of everything you do.
They don't usually show up in technical books and yet without them a lot of brilliant effort can go to waste. I constantly have to remind myself of them, sitting on my own shoulder and wagging a finger in my face.
What a great set of obvious but seldom articulated things that every developer would do well to go through at some regular interval (because these are easy to forget, especially in this age of agentic engineering).
This is an old post that I discovered through last Sunday's Joy & Curiosity, Thorsten Ball's weekly round up of really wonderful links (a lot of them focused on agentic engineering, given Thorsten is building Amp, which I've heard described as the Porsche of coding agents).