Ask HN: What reads made you a better engineer?

I'm currently reading 'Programming Clojure' and it looks promising.

what books, posts, or any kind of read made you feel that after that you learn something valuable to your craft? something that made you say to yourself 'I learned a ton from this author'

i’m trying to cut through the noise and seeking for community recommendations (it’s also well received the opposite - what texts or resources to avoid)

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Looking at my bookshelf, there are three books that I've re-opened as references for a while that have a significant impact on my current work:

1. Refactoring/Fowler 2. Design Patterns/Gang of Four 3. The Art of Unit Testing/Osherove

Although, the last book (Unit Testing) is C# specific, what I appreciated was the open discussion of using techniques and tools, rather than ideology.

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