Fond memories! My first job out of uni was building interfaces for embedded devices using XUL/javsacript/xpcom/c++. The technologies were fun to develop in at the time and it felt special to be somewhat of a part of such a big open project.
I think my biggest recommendation is David Graeber. Perhaps something like Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. In a similar way to Kropotkin, Graeber challenges a lot of narratives that form the basis of capitialism e.g. that all we did was barter before we had money, that it was the enlightenment that first introduced the world to freedom and equality etc.. Instead, he shows that there are many cultures in the past, and contemporary, that have significant anarchist tendencies (mutual aid, direct democracy, solidarity etc). I believe understanding this is key to expanding the anarchist tendencies in our own culture.
"Conquest of Bread" had a huge impact on my politics. It cut through the capitalist realist narrative that we're all in economic competition and that capitalism is the only sane solution. It made me feel like another world is possible. I changed my life to pursue these other possibilities ever since.