I like to read replies to posts like this just to remind myself how misinformed the general public is about “USB-C” So here is a thread looking at a few of them… 🧵1

Petition to rename “Tech Documentation” to “Tech Lore”

To call yourself a “full-stack” developer in 2024, you must be able to: - Build frontends - Build backends - Provision cloud infrastructure - Handle UX in Figma - Maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines - Create 3D art in Blender - Manage projects with Scrum - Attend daily standup

dax if we are already here: it's weird that object orient programming (or inspired by) became the most common programming patterns for web development when everything around web requests inherently functional no state, clear intend, one input, one output, chaining of requests, etc

Richard Feldman Zed May I ask what you do in Zed , AI? github.com/zed-industries…

A “Razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. Here are 16 Razors every person should know:

Day 1 at #opensauce was awesome. Stop by on day 2 if you haven't yet learned about our community-built open source 2D procedural graphics editor. Open Sauce

Fantastic summary of the most effective learning techniques based on research study findings:

You don't need to know these abstractions to use libraries (assuming, the author guarded the user enough). You don't even need to know them to design such libraries (you can use your experience but it may take longer). But knowing them gives you unmatched leverage.

When you remove a line of code that looked useless

This short paper (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…) contains a lot of insights on how learning works, and how to improve the way we learn as software developers. It's worth reading, but you could also head to the very good summary made by Abi Noda: newsletter.getdx.com/p/software-dev…

Quite a few new featured packages on Universe, but why don't you start your weekend with a game of "soviet-matrix"? Look for it in the Typst app or try `typst init` in the CLI!

@AndreyWhoCADs YouTube That may be true. Or it may not. But it doesn’t matter, because Web development itself is peak nothing. We really need to get past the whole HTML/CSS/http/JavaScript model.

I'm seeing a lot of excitement on board game spaces for this game, and I think our playthrough will demonstrate why. Win or lose, I'll extra-enjoy my post-game dram.

Interview on Book Overflow podcast about the Refactoring book. We talked about the origins of the book, the relationship between refactoring, testing, and XP, refactoring in the wild, and the role of books and long-form prose today. youtube.com/watch?v=CjCJ76…

Multi-column figures, line numbers, improved PDFs, and faster performance – Typst 0.12 is a game changing release. To show you how to use it for your projects, we have put together a short video

I use this every day! Mostly for pairing, although sometimes to pop in on someone else's pairing session (e.g. to ask a quick question), which requires no coordination because it shows who's in which channels. I also know I'm not interrupting solo focus because I can see they're

Happy Halloween!

Remco (Remco Smis) and Anthony (Anthony Eid) have been working on a debugger PR for quite some time now. In this video, you can see their progress, and that the debugger even works collaboratively!