This week on @overcommitted.dev , why education for engineers with 2-3 years of experience is critical: they don't know what they don't know.
Check out the episode as we chat with @glich.stream about why he's creating a system design course specifically for this demographic.
Are microservices more problems than solutions? 👀
Most companies embark on that pattern because they think they're solving scaling, when actually they're solving organizational inefficiencies.
This and more in this week's episode of @overcommitted.dev with @glich.stream !
Ugh. Max of 60 secs… come on
Oouh! Can post videos here too!
Whether a job can be automated will depend on how big the flow chart that documents all its functions is.
If a job has barely any degrees of freedom, everything follows procedure, and the worker has no decision making power it should not be a surprise if this jobs is automated soon.
How many of you run vulnerability / security scans on your code while writing it / before submitting a PR?
The future is bright: AI agents now handle creating your resume and automatically applying for jobs on your behalf, and AI agents review your resume and decide whether you move forward or not.
This is your daily reminder that while LLMs can do awesome stuff, they still make mistakes. Can you spot it?
What makes this even more problematic is that the previous 4 time diffs I asked it to compute, it got them right.
The vast majority of the internet today is nothing but a client/server implementation of some sort.
How is a Kindle edition of a book more expensive than the hardcover or paperback? 🤔 bonkers..
I’m of the age when nothing productive happens after 7:00pm
This was my first, long, painful, and expensive custom keyboard build 😭 and I documented it aaaalllll for your learning and entertainment. Watch how I built the Aurora Sofle v2 split keyboard and the lessons I learned throughout the process!
youtu.be/pE8lcf3MJDw
From this to this .. it was an intense build 😓 but it needed to happen.
Now all I have to do is to relearn how to type 😭
I have experienced 2 states when writing code:
1. Making things work and good enough
2. Artisanal coding
I wish I could more of #2
Another fun fact is, both its creators were PHP developers before adopting Python. I really loved recording this episode with Simon, so much history and fantastic insights.
If you listen to one thing this weekend, make sure it's this
📺 https://youtu.be/jQ3LzxN1Nwg
🎙️ https://tinyurl.com/glich-e27
Back in 2000's everyone was busy creating content management systems (CMS) think Drupal, Joomla & the likes.
It was fascinating to learn that Django also started as a CMS for a local newspaper in the US before it was open sourced & became the framework with a wide adoption.
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Where are all the tech folks hanging out?
I do miss the extended character limits though 😓
Where are the Rust vs Go posts here?
Drop by the GitHub booth at ReactSummit (Amsterdam) for stickers and to say hi
In reality, this will never happen. The engineering cost / benefit ratio is too high
The holy grail of observability is to be able to have timeseries charts of some metrics on a dashboard, and from that same view, drill down all the way to the specific event(s) that might be causing the spikes you're seeing (or other anomalies)
If there’s a reality TV show about the Rust drama, I’d watch it
🚨 Going live in 20 minutes! Join me
📺 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/VJB-TYo9_DY?feature=share
📺 Twitch: https://glich.stream/twitch
I'll be streaming the last part of building a CLI tool in Go tonight at 8:00PM CEST
Today, I'll be working on the release process, writing the workflows to build and publish the tool
📷 Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=lttOcy…
📷 Twitch: glich.stream/twitch
Frameworks are great
… fast forward 10 years …
you’ve built a ton of abstractions on top of it, the framework is dead, documentation is old, only a handful of engineers who were available from the start know how to navigate all the built-in magic and it takes 8 months to onboard a new engineer
3 years at GitHub and counting.
The longest I've worked at a company was 2 years and 7 months. At GitHub I broke this and every additional day I spend here is a new record.
The people I have the privilege to work with everyday make this experience both a blessing & pure joy.
A university degree in tech is always an ineffective proxy indicator.
Universities are awesome, I wish I could go back and do more studying now that I know how to study and what.
They, however, are not programs to prepare anyone for the job market. They can't keep up.
The topics taught in a CS program are important.
Mastering these topics takes a lifetime.
Why are we torturing everyone in multi-year programs where in students come out on the other end with a "mental index of relevant topics" but not necessarily any depth indicative of any level of mastery?
The world would be a far better place if we stopped associating degrees with intelligence or capability. The world would also be in a better position if we stopped considering alternative means of education "lesser".
We would all be better if not having a University degree is normalised.
