Thomas Findlay

More projects are moving away from complicated build processes for their front-end assets and back to something simpler. https://lnkd.in/eHVrSWcE #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #FrontEnd #css

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Was playing around with the #Zed IDE from Zed Industries this evening. There's no Windows installer for it yet but you can compile it pretty easily. Yesterday I updated my #Rust toolchain, and with Visual Studio Community made sure the MSVC C++ build tools and Windows 11 SDK were installed. I let `cargo run` do its thing while I did other stuff, and when it eventually finished, it just launched without any build errors. Love that. Still early days though, it's not yet the most intuitive to use. I do like the docs as they are now, and also the familiar keybindings from VS Code. I wonder how easy a complete newcomer would find it though. The idea of built in #collaboration features for the IDE is great. I first saw this kind of feature many years ago in JetBrains #IntelliJ IDEA, where you could do things like viewing a colleague's session and diffing files against their local copy. I thought that was amazing! We've also seen it in recent years in Visual Studio Code and VS proper with #LiveShare. One thing these kinds of tools have issues with usually though is challenges within corporations - networking policies, proxies and firewalls, data privacy policies, etc. Having an ability to use an on-premise/local server for this would be nice too I think. As far as I understand, you can run a local collaboration version, but it's just a dev tool at the moment more than a product. The ability to follow collaborators is useful for #remotePairing or #mobProgramming. Channels with a side-by-side chat window, and note links to Markdown notes is nice. I haven't really used all the features fully, but I think it might support voice? Since COVID days I've wanted a way to combine something like Discord with Live Share or MS Teams, where you can enter a "room" with your colleagues/team, similar to being in an open office while working on-site, but now working remotely. Need a break, go over into the "coffee corner" virtual room and see what people in there are chatting or talking about - whether its collaborating on something, or just socializing. Need to have a quick team breakaway discussion, use another room/channel. Having AI as another "collaborator" in the IDE is of course nice. Interesting to see the support of multiple language model integrations too. I've recently been wanting to get back into the command line world as a primary environment, and like that it has built in vim emulation (yes... I'm finally wanting to figure out how to be a vim power user... maybe). Glad to see there's a #csharp extension, as well as an #asciidoc extension, think I might be testing those pretty soon :) Looking forward to not just playing around a bit, but trying it out on a proper project, to see how it performs. zed.dev https://lnkd.in/e5Shjx8P

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What is a TypeScript Engineer? I keep seeing this pop up in recruitment posts, which means clients are asking for it...right? Has this replaced the FullStack Engineer, which, lets be honest, meant a NodeJS developer. That was back in the good old days when it was only NodeJS. Now we have Bun, Deno, Hono and more. Or perhaps its asking for a Javascript developer...whatever that means in todays world of a thousand js frameworks and evolving ES standards. Or are they actually asking for a Java developer, because someones used Gen AI along the way and it got confused between Java and Javascript (*shudders*) Are they seriously in need of a type system engineer, thats kinda niche. It's hard enough trying to explain what you do as a job to "normal" folk as it is, without this level of obfuscation. How would you even explain this when asked "What do you do?". Do kids nowadays needs to consider themselves experts in everything inside package.json to land a job? When will the industry move beyond this fixation on specific languages? I get it, it's an important consideration, but asking for Typescript Engineers...it's not going to help you find the devs you actually need.

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Here's how to take full control over authentication requirements in any type of frontend application! Read Gary Archer's latest article on The New Stack NOW 👉 https://bit.ly/47lzaJY

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lateinit and lazy in Kotlin Imagine you’re at a party 🍕, and you tell your friend, 'Bro, you’re on snack duty, but don't bring them right away. We’ll call for snacks when we really need them.' That's lazy in Kotlin! You don’t initialize a variable until it’s actually used. It’s like telling your code, 'Hold up, I’ll get to it later when I need it.' val snacks by lazy { fetchSnacks() } Then there’s lateinit – it’s like inviting a DJ 🎧 and saying, 'Yo, I’ll tell you where to set up later, but trust me, I’ll need you.' Here, the variable is initialized later in the code but must be initialized before it’s used. lateinit var dj: DJService In short: Lazy: 'Bring the snacks when I need them.' 🍿 Lateinit: 'I’ll set up the DJ before the party starts, but not just yet.' 🎶 Now the next time you see lazy or lateinit in code, you know they’re just like party prep! 🎉 #Kotlin #LazyVsLateinit #CodingAnalogies #AndroidDevelopment #DevLife"

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There’s a fascinating ‘leaked’ PDF[1] doing the rounds at the moment. It, allegedly, was penned by Mr Beast, and in it, he outlines key factors for success at his production company. I’d recommend reading it as he speaks with great candour, and it’s packed with broadly applicable insights, but my personal favourite is this: === USE CONSULTANTS Consultants are literally cheat codes. Need to make the world’s largest slice of cake? Start off by calling the person who made the previous world’s largest slice of cake lol. He’s already done countless tests and can save you weeks worth of work. === Whenever I’ve mentored people who wanted to start out in consultancy, I’ve always said the same thing: a consultant is just someone who’s done something at least once more than their client. Consultants aren’t there to be smarter than their clients—they’re there because they’ve BEEN dumber. Consultants have already seen and made all of the right mistakes in all of the right permutations, and they’re there to stop their clients from doing the same. Your client CAN DO what you do—you’re not special. It’s just going to take them longer. You’re not hired because you know what to do—it’s because you also know what not to do. You’re not special; you’re a shortcut. 1. https://lnkd.in/eD6SYchZ

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🧑‍💻Kotlin Community! You can now watch David Denton's fascinating keynote presentation from On Kotlin 8 in it's entirety. Kotlin's Elegant Deception: Simple APIs, Unusual Tactics by David Denton A massive thank you to David for his insights and continuous work within the Kotlin Community. Watch it now via the link below on our YouTube Channel. #SourceTechnology #OnKotlin #Kotlin

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🧑‍💻Kotlin Community! You can now watch David Denton's fascinating keynote presentation from On Kotlin 8 in it's entirety. Kotlin's Elegant Deception: Simple APIs, Unusual Tactics by David Denton A massive thank you to David for his insights and continuous work within the Kotlin Community. Watch it now via the link below on our YouTube Channel. #SourceTechnology #OnKotlin #Kotlin

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Earlier this year we scaled our platform to support 100K users — now we've pushed even further! In our latest blog post, we talk about how we integrated Redis into our architecture and the lessons we learned running Redis at scale. From cache invalidations to leveraging Redis' powerful pub-sub mechanism, our journey is packed with insights. Read the full blog to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gSpH7Y8X #Scaling #TechInsights #DevOps #CloudComputing #TechBlog #MissionCritical #Collaboration #Workflows

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ICYMI: Our very own, Tom Wheeler spoke at the Explore DDD Conference back in March, and his talk is now available to watch online! Check out the full video where he discusses how Temporal can help developers build more reliable and scalable applications. Watch here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g7ypmmva

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Looking for a reason to hire junior developers? Ignoring them is a big mistake, as John Crickett correctly points out. 👇 Sure, they might lack experience. However don't mistake their inexperience for incapacity. ➕ Their fresh eyes unravel new perspectives on old problems. ➕ Their hunger for learning is unmatchable. ➕ They're innovative, adaptable, and ready to absorb knowledge. Investing in junior talent is investing in the future of your business. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄'𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. So, next time there's a position open, consider them. You might just be surprised.

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Learn how to make better, more maintainable software that works for the long term using Domain-Driven Design! Rob Allen from Nineteen Feet Ltd dropped by PHP Sussex to give us an introduction to DDD and how you can use it to build and architect software that meets the needs of its users. Catch up on Rob's talk here: https://lnkd.in/euub8PMa Yannick Chenot

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📱💡🍏 Here’s a question from Richard for all the iOS developers: When you use the iOS Alarm app, it can remember where you stopped scrolling and picks up right there when you open it again. It even remembers if you were in the middle of deleting alarms and keeps the delete buttons visible. Q1. Which iOS system APIs make this possible? Also, there’s a little glitch. If you start to swipe on an alarm to delete it, but then close the app, it shows the delete option on all the alarms when you come back, not just the one you were swiping on. Q2. What programming error could be causing this issue? Drop your answers in the comments below! Richard will give hints to help you get to the right answer. 💡 Don’t forget to check out Richard’s other posts for more iOS insights: https://lnkd.in/dRRyTWbA #rakettitiede #LightYearsAhead #ios #iosdevelopment #debugging #iosquestion #alarm

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Building embeddables is different than building an application with global state, using well established frameworks like Next.js Maintaining them is more difficult, but if you apply strong engineering principles like: - Using the same versioning - Make sure you have telemetry - Make sure SDKs respect your set protocol - Make sure you offer a great DX (developer experience) The benefit to your users is worth it

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