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There are two camps here. First camp knows how the magic works, and do wonders in short times (see all the amazing Rails people), second camp doesn't know how it works at all, and is allured into thinking they can summon a Genie, blowing up everything along the way. If you're dealing with magic, at least choose camp one, and try to learn the underlying things. If not, good luck trying to maintain it. For myself, I got never along with Rails. I'm a huge "make everything explicit" type of a person. Go's error returns are something I like for example. I just love when I can immediately understand what an expression is doing. But I respect the magic people (The ones in the first camp), because there you need a different kind of mindset. And if you put these people together, they do wonders (see @PlanetScale).

Using a unified coding style helps keeping the code consistent. This simplifies its' long-term maintenance. That's why the best programming language should allow only a single boring way to write the particular code. @golang was close to this goal. Unfortunately it went in the wrong direction with generics, iterator functions, weak pointers and similar garbage, which complicates software development :(

With the rise of AI, investing in becoming an infra/distributed system expert sounds good like never before. From yet another great post by Matt Rickard: blog.matt-rickard.com/p/distributed-…

Yeah, definitively AI is changing our day by day working life 😎

It'll probably work reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

Thrilled to see @Informatica make it to @CRN's 20 coolest cloud software companies for the second consecutive year for data-led business transformation. informatica.com/about-us/news/…

We are honored to be recognized by @Computerworld as one of the Best Places to Work in IT for 2023! Read more: infa.media/3FNi5fH

Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today. Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.

Be explicit rather than implicit. Stop excessive DRYing, sugaring, and abstracting if it makes your code harder to understand for newcomers. You'll, too, be a newcomer a few months after. Thank yourself later.

Feature Comparison xkcd.com/2699

Do I expect a CEO to know how their homepage works? No. Absolutely not. But then again I don't expect them to pretend like they do either. And I certainly don't expect them to criticize their own product and engineering teams that actually do know how the hell it works.

Introducing the Dagger Go SDK: a new way to develop your CI/CD pipelines as code, and run them in containers anywhere. dagger.io/blog/go-sdk

LeetCode is a useless interviewing tool. Very few of our jobs are actually about finding an efficient algorithmic solution on the spot, with no support, and real life generally requires days of work on a design. Why are we using riddles to hire developers? fev.al/posts/leet-cod…

Definitely, me reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

TypeScript reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

We feel honored and proud that developers ranked Rust as the "most loved" language in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for the 7th year running! We tied for "most wanted" with Python, and usage grew to 9% from 7% last year. We hope to welcome even more of you in the future! 🥰

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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