A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Osterhout beautifully covers the nature of complexity in software. It provides clear strategies to keep complexity as low as possible while giving real-world examples along the way from his own work (e.g., RAMCloud or the Tcl programming language). He also gathered, for instance, interesting sources of various designs for a GUI text editor from his students, highlighting essential points to keep in mind while designing software.

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them is a truly insightful book by Teiva Harsanyi that covers common mistakes made by Go developers. This summary provides a high-level overview of the book's content.

Refactoring UI provides guidance for non-designers on how to create polished, professional visual interfaces without formal graphic design skills.

After reading Letters to a New Developer, one of the next logical steps on this learning path was to read [The Effective Engineer][effective-website]. I hope you enjoy this simple yet effective book summary!