It's easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code. Contributor Charity Majors makes the case for hiring junior developers and treating your engineering team like a delicate ecosystem, and why GenAI tools can only take so devs far. stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/gen…

Breaking news: Developer accidentally completes task in the estimated time. Colleagues in total disbelief. Authorities have been alerted.

Outlasting is the toughest but most rewarding strategy

When the project manager asks why my code isn't working, I remind them that it's spelled "developer" not "magician". Debugging, it’s like being the detective in a crime drama where you’re also the murderer.

Thank you @whoisalanjacobs

Hot take: how can a for-profit business make a profit paying social grants in South Africa? itweb.co.za/article/lesaka…

Social media sharding is becoming very distinct. X is a bit of a cesspool. LinkedIn is like walking into a lounge where everyone is super friendly until you realise they are all either on cocaine or in a cult. Instagram is for bragging. Facebook is for visiting your grandparents

#hottake Geordin Hill-Lewis Geordin Hill-Lewis Mayor of Cape Town 🇿🇦 Parody As PRASA Group Metrorail W/Cape improves the railways in Cape Town, taxis are: 1. Shifting their routes, 2. driving more aggressively to service the diminishing demand. Is it not time for MyCiti to explore its own branded feeder network of taxis?

Articles and regulation like this cnbc.com/2024/12/17/uk-… fundamentally misunderstand the technology. It is too late. This heist has been performed, and is a derivation of technology (crawling) behind search. Inference and probability are insufficiently understood by lawmakers.

Someone should tell PayPal that their new brand from Pentagram Design looks like a bit of a lift of Mr D - awkward... pentagram.com/work/paypal

Never have truer words been spoken.

Great article cacm.acm.org/practice/test-…

Random fact: Humanity landed on the moon before we had a marketable quartz watch, which only launched in December 1969.

As South Africans we don't realise how good we have it - FlySafair is the most on-time airline in the world - this has nothing to do with equity - it has to do with the ownership of the staff (both in the air and ground crews). cnbc.com/2025/01/03/whi…

This is the kind of remuneration most employees need and will benefit from. Well aligned to what we've done at full stack. Sharing in profits makes thoughtful owners of everyone.

Software developers have nothing to fear

Thrilled to announce... devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typ…

The hardest part of business isn't starting, it's staying. Starting is a rounding error. Staying is all the rest. Starting is the most obvious. Staying is the most elusive. Starting gets the glory. Staying can be gory. Anyone can start, few can last. Startup? Stayup!

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to Markdown Introducing Markitdown. Let me explain. 🧵

As a white South African business person, who has played by the rules, built a technology business with all the challenges of loadshedding and double standards, I take serious offence if the rumours are true that Elon Musk and Starlink are going to get a BBBEE carve out #kakpraat