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Thank you!

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Honored to be asked to review @pragdave.bsky.social's new book for programmers, Simplicity.

It was such a joy to read -- like having your super experienced senior dev best friend share all their coding and productivity secrets.

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I had a really nice chat with @bruceeckel.bsky.social and @jamesward.com about programming, need, and satisfaction
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2024 Advent of Code, day 7 This one had a fun first part but I think I must have missed something obvious in the second: it runs way too sloe.

Day 7 of the #AdventofCode. I'm really please with the first part: generating all permutations of the two operators by adding one to a count.

I think Phoenix has been fairly stable, but I have had no direct experience using it for a while now. I can't talk about the JVM ones. I've also had zero experience on the JVM side of the house.

2024 Advent of Code, Day 4 YouTube video by pragdave

And #AdventOfCode day 4 is up, including a wee little data-driven search...

youtu.be/Uy02EnbHvbA

2024 Advent of Code, Day 3 YouTube video by pragdave

Day 3 of AoC is up. Lots of regular expressions and bad typing...

youtu.be/8WC8kks2Mws

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2. Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang by @whatyouhi.de
3. Real-World Event Sourcing by @kevinhoffman.bsky.social

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2024 Advent of Code, Day 2 YouTube video by pragdave

Day 2 of my #AdventOfCode exploration is now online.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6EL...

Nah, it's me that's going to feel stupid when the "why didn't you..." comments start rolling in. :)

2024 Advent of Code, Day 1 YouTube video by pragdave

ust as an experiment, I'm recording myself working through the Advent of Code challenges. The videos are pretty raw: I edit out long silences and the occasional dog park, but otherwise they've just me bumbling along. Enjoy:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEI2...

Massive congratulations to Chris McCord and the team for reaching the amazing milestone of LiveView 1.0.

Maybe you say I should just freeze all versions of the framework code, and run with that into the future. I tried that. I have 80kloc of Rails that won't run on Ubuntu > 18. And, or course, that means no security updates.

I think we need to start factoring this in to our choice of frameworks.

Not picking on Rails here: it's even worse in the Javascript world. And Python 2 -> 3 is still a mess, all these years later.

It's time to stop assuming latest = greatest, and instead know that latest will be most painful.

I don't want to incur the future debt of Rails or a JS framework.

This has reached the point where some frameworks are not even compatible with themselves. Rails 8, for example, changed how assets work (again) and deleted a manifest file. But use the Rails 8 generator to create an esbuild app, and that app won't run.

Most framework curators seem to value signing up new users over supporting existing users and their apps–each major release will adopt the libraries and ideas du jour, attracting people who want to play with them to the detriment of existing users who now have to spend time fixing their code.

Well said! DRY is about having a single source of truth, and never about removing identical lines of code. I updated the 2nd edition of TPP to try to make that clearer.

Who knows, who knows...

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I'll be interested to hear what you think.

Aerospace might well be the workspace manager for OS X that I've been looking for. Anyone got any other favorites?

I just tried installing eight popular CMS apps under Rails 8. Only one of them got past the initial install stage. Makes me want to use Java.

This afternoon I submitted an issue to the JRuby team. Five hours later they had the fix ready to merge. I'm seriously impressed.

On the face of it, Payload and Drizzle have a nice looking take on database migrations. During development, the scheme just updates automatically. When a feature is complete, you then ask it to create a migration to formalize the little changes you've made.

Effective Haskell Build efficient applications that exploit the unique benefits of a pure functional language, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell to do practical work.

I really try not to do too much self promotion. I think it's annoying, and I generally believe that the best way to get interest in your work is to give people something they value.

That said, new platform so I'll do this once:

I wrote a book about Haskell:
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Currently Away cover

Currently's Great Loop Track

Currently Away last page

I have just finished reading Currently Away, by @redrapids.bsky.social and @maggietate.bsky.social.
It is not a book about a boat trip.
It is a book about two fascinating human beings that decided to take that trip (known as The Great Loop).
In some chapters you cry, but most of the time you laugh.

I try to distinguish between disagreement and argument. Disagreement is when we have different opinions and try to find common ground. Argument is when we disagree and don't. The former is what makes things change. The latter is what makes people walk away and disengage.

Ask Slashdot: Have AI Coding Tools Killed the Joy of Programming? - Slashdot Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in the 90s and I've always liked the back-and-forth with the runtime to achieve the right result. I recently got back fr...

That from a /. reader.

Is that _really_ how people are coding? If so, I've been incredibly naive, and I am really, really scared.

developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/...