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When your code works, but you have no idea how
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People often say that you can't index JSON with MySQL, but that's not entirely accurate.
It's totally possible to index JSON columns with MySQL!
It's kinda tricky, but definitely worth it.
Let's take a look at how...
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AWS is not for the weak ππππ
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Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How βbusyβ you were
- How stressed you were
- How many hours you worked
People will remember:
- That one time you used Docker Swarm instead of Kubernetes
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I get quite a few invites to these "roundtables" where "industry leaders" come together to talk about... I don't know what. I'm guessing, many words but 0 useful content?
Has anyone ever actually attended one of these? And if so, why?
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Cold recruiter messages were annoying enough as a Software Engineer.
But when you're a Head of Engineering everyone is desperate to sell you engineers, or managers, or logging / elasticsearch / cloud / SaaS. Or send you phishing emails pretending to be the CEO (really?)π€¦ββοΈ
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When I worked at a big tech company I used to reply to every email and Slack message with:
βCan we set up a recurring meeting about this to keep everyone in the loop?β
I was promoted 7 times in 6 years.
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Now that I run a company, I can make ridiculous rules like making Kubernetes illegal
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If dynamic typing is so good, why do people keep adding static types to dynamically typed languages? π€
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When you read the docs for Kubernetes and start clicking on links to understand how networking works
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More programmers than ever are moving to Rust.
They may not know Rust is not always the best choice!
Here are some languages that they may want to try instead: π§΅
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Anyone noticed a big rise in "dev influencers" here recently?
Basically folks who started doing iOS or Javascript six months ago, have 10,000 followers and just relentlessly post stuff like "what's your favourite API?" or "here's how variables work" for engagement.
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git commit --allow-empty is the one true universal rerun CI button
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Struggling to connect on your remote team?
Weβve built a 68 person remote team thatβs driving $30 million in annual revenue.
Here are 10 ideas for building great culture in a distributed team: π»π
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Every now and then I think of what this concert would have been like
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βKind regardsβ
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How do you say βfuck thatβ in a professional setting?
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Please don't use exceptions for flow control.
Checking if a user exists or not? It's perfectly valid for them not to. If you have a network or query problem, that's a case for an exception.
This is language agnostic. There's a reason #golang and #swiftlang allow multi retvals.
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Want to return null from a repository method, e.g. find()? Please replace it with an exception.
NULL should only be used for the absence of primitive values (if nullable is a business rule), but not in cases, were you have the chance to give more information like UserNotFound.
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LinkedIn has finally added the laughing reaction.
Get your popcorn ready for all the passive-aggressiveness thatβs on the way! πΏ
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Copilot using OSS to train itself, and then GitHub charging for it, is not much different than the majority of us using and building our apps based on OSS, and then charging for them, without paying a dime to the dozens of libraries and frameworks we use.
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This is cool, but not as random as the keystrokes of developers trying to exit vim.
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I was today years old when I found out Cloudflare has a wall full of lava lamps they feed into a camera as a way to generate randomness to create cryptographic keys
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Just saw a startup with 7 people that has a CEO, a CTO, a CFO, and a VP of Eng π€
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Helios is a WIP GUI automation tool written in Go that uses image recognition powered by OpenCV.
I'm currently using it to bot an android mobile game running in an emulator. There's a lot of work to do yet!
Check it out and let's collaborate!
github.com/J7mbo/helios #golang
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What happens to this car when it get caught up in a traffic jam?
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OH:
web1: You are the audience
web2: You are the product
web3: You are the victim
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And it's back. Maybe it was only me screaming.
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I haven't posted much for some years now as I got away from the whole 'likes and validation' thing. But I've been ignoring the possibility that my posts may have helped someone at some point.
You may expect some more posts unrelated to income or self-promotion at some point :)
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Pro-Tip on being a Technical Lead - if you are the one *making* all the decisions for your team, there's something wrong there. Putting that on your CV may not have the intended impact. #leadership
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I discovered now has a 'Live Preview' equivalent via InjectionIII!
In the past there was no storyboard support, but now it'll auto-recompile and the simulator updates like live preview. I can finally switch from Xcode! #swiftlang
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I recently saw CTO of a large scaleup bragging on LinkedIn about him being able to bringing up a container that was printing βHello worldβ πππ
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Just wanted to shout how awesome #firebase is when working with #swiftlang + #iosdev. It's realtime database "just works" and there are many simple examples out there to get up and running with it quickly.
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There is no chance anyone will convince me that being sat on my balcony, with the sun shining and surrounded by nature, along with having random video chats with colleagues, is worse than a concrete block where how you dress is considered part of your expertise. #remotework ftw.
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People make fun of smart appliances, but donβt you wish your dryer sent you a monthly digest email?
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