Welcome back to this totally non-regular compilation of interesting reads. Enjoy!

• A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art.
• A module of Python utilities aiming to complement the standard library. Boltons
• Named Pipes in Unix. Pipes are a really powerful tool.
• I’m each day more convinced that the biggest problem that an developer faces today is the internal expectations and unfair comparison. Productivity vs Guilt and Self-Loathing.

• On secretly Terrible Engineers Curiously enough, in my current job, one of the first things my manager said to me was: “your interview was brilliant, but here’s a great book on the area you seem to be less good” 😉 It was a great book indeed.
• The linked article about hiring is also worth reading.
• Why someone would want to use Vim????
• Managing and lead engineers is challenging. Jessica McKellar talks about it.
• Did you ever wonder why some songs feel so much as others? Chord progressions on 5,000 songs. This video illustrates what a chord progression is beautifully (and hilariously)
• Cognitive overload is a real thing. Simplifying processes with simple rules can greatly help on taking decisions.

How Not to Be Hard on Yourself via @GreatWorkLife http://t.co/WokozxmrrO—
Donna Svei (@AvidCareerist) March 17, 2015

• Social networks space is very interesting, because everyone seems to have different opinions on what is important and what are the changes to come. Here one article about this. Here a different view. And here a comment to the different view. 
• Given the current trend of glorifying youth in our field, the title “senior developer” seems to be used somehow lightly. I don’t particularly like decalogs or “must have“, because careers are not a list of checkboxes. That said, I think that talking about maturity is always interesting, and this article has very good point on great skills to have that experience should help with. On Being A Senior Engineer.
• In this follow up there an interesting point. Why culture is (not always) bullshit.
• From a more practical point of view, lessons learned in software development.
• Some explanations about passwords and how they should be treated, including why is not OK to send you your password over email.
• For a purely external point of view, the market on Visas for programmers in US seems quite weird.

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