Spas Poptchev

I have a new piece up. It's a bit of a rant, even for me, so buckle in. A lot of "thought leaders" have been making their mortgages lately off of bits on how AI is going to replace software engineers, particularly entry-level engineers. stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/gen…

The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war Nobody in Europe is thinking why increasingly everything they use is made in China running on American software The knee jerk reaction is to proudly pass regulation against American tech The chad reaction would be to reduce regulation so that European entrepreneurs would actually stay in Europe to build European startups increasing Europe's GDP and making Europeans richer! I am European and I have regular conversations about this with people here, it's just not on top of mind AT ALL! While it should be because Europe's GDP is stagnant and the real innovation now happens in US and China and elsewhere, not in Europe People in Europe do love to complain about rising cost of living and the increasing unaffordability of living, but they don't realize why. They point at foreigners/immigrants as the problem, which can't be the whole story Other Europeans I talk to get visibly upset if I ask them about stagnant GDP numbers: "why should everything be about money?" they say in a thick German accent The whole story is that Europe has made it very difficult for people to start a business, raise capital, innovate and get the reward for taking that risk, so why would anybody? And for the Europeans that do, it's way easier to open a US Delaware company, raise capital in US, sell your stock or IPO in the US, because why even do that in EU, where it's too hard? The proof is in the pudding, if it was so easy in EU then why is startup funding in US $270B AUM with 330 million people vs $44B AUM with 746 million people? That's almost 14x bigger startup funding market per capita Why doesn't EU have ANY trillion dollar companies? While US has six? Why isn't there any European company in the top 10 of largest companies? While 80% is American? Why is Stripe, a company founded by two Irish brothers, an American company and not a European one? It could have been Very few Europeans will agree with this post because they can't see it, if they would've seen it, we wouldn't be here in the first place! What's the role left for Europe in the future? Signed, - A techno-optimist European who'd love to see Europe become wealthy again

Eric Schmidt says it's going to be rare to see the successes in Europe that you see in America and the UK: "The fundamental reason is that they can't get the capital and Europe's regulatory structure is so prohibitive It's really sad because the European talent pool is amazing, the opportunity to build companies in terms of impact is huge And frankly Europe's government and its regulation is slowing them down"

@starbuxman If there were clean exception handling in JS/TS, using async/await wouldn’t be too bad.

async/await was a mistake

@tdinh_me It’s hard to unlearn Vim. 😄 In my opinion, IntelliJ has the best Vim support.

Considering switching to using VSCode as my primary IDE, but I'm too lazy to relearn every hotkeys... Is there a well-trained GPT chatbot that understands VSCode very well and can help me answer 100 "how to do X in VSCode" questions? Things like: - how to duplicate/delete a line - how to open a file in a vertical/horizontal split - how to select the next matching word and activate multi-cursor - how to jump to previous cursor position - etc.

I spent *hours* today debugging something that turned out to be a single wrong letter in the code: a .ge() should have been .gt(). Beginning programmers sometimes despair when debugging, but with experience it is just something to grind through.

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Trying to learn a new programming language? - Immerse yourself in it by reading open source code, solving coding problems, and creating a small project - Understand its strengths and weaknesses - Unlearn and relearn: embrace the new language’s design philosophy I can’t stress the importance of the last point enough. I have often found myself trying to force the design patterns of one language onto another. It’s a trap! Don’t fall for it. It’s not about forgetting what you have learned before. It’s about being open-minded to the idea that problems can be solved in a different way than before.

"In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating it,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you." – Andrew Clark

Just published a new blog post on integrating #Keycloak multi-tenancy with the #Pulumi Automation API. zone2.tech/blog/keycloak-…

@levelsio Bulgaria is a great choice for remote work. Let’s hope the government will take note of this some day…

Also added 🌟 consistently grown in last 5 year list now nomadlist.com/fastest-growin…

@maciejwalkowiak The Service and Component annotations in Spring arguably increase the complexity. Imagine trying to explain the distinction between these two to a beginner...

"Service" is likely the most abused concept in Java/Spring world

One of the things that I find missing in Kotlin is the package-private visibility. It would be a great addition to the language.

@iannuttall Something like github.com/typesense/type… might be better suited for your use case.

Does anybody know how to handle performant LIKE searches on a table of 50m rows? Asking for "a friend"...

Keywords are coming to Niche Site Metrics 🔥 After chatting with some smart cookies at Affiliate Gathering I’m currently getting ranking keywords for all domains so you’ll be able to search for them! We’re at 18 million keywords at ~10% complete. Gonna be a huge database 🤯

Authentication and authorization are among the most underrated parts of SaaS development, particularly when dealing with multi-tenancy. I've noticed that in some cases, establishing these security measures can take longer than developing the core business features. To add to the complexity, finding an affordable solution can feel like a search for a needle in a haystack. The quickest solution I've found is a combination of Rails, Devise, Pundit, and Doorkeeper. It's efficient, effective, and perfect for start-ups looking for a solid, affordable option.

@sivalabs Lombok introduces an additional layer of abstraction, which may make your code harder to understand and maintain. Be mindful of this when using it and consider adding tests to ensure the quality and stability of your code.

How about giving a few concrete examples of why Lombok is bad instead of simply repeating "Lombok is bad" song every other week? Why not enlighten the people giving some practical examples they are going to face while using Lombok 🤦‍♂️

Kotlin, Spring, and Testcontainers: Unbeatable Iteration Speed.

Just spent hours digging into #Java17 only to discover that it uses the system clock, which varies in precision based on the OS. Good luck finding this issue without a good test-coverage.

The perfect mix for testing Spring Boot Kotlin applications: JUnit 5, Mockito-Kotlin, and Kotest Assertions.

When you hit senior-level, the challenge becomes resisting complex solutions to simple problems. Sometimes, embracing a beginner's mind is the key - just dive into writing the code. #beginnersmind