Been hearing a lot of people talk about going back to the fundamentals of Software Engineering when they talk about continuing to be competitive in the AI-driven Software Development world. I want to ask what everyone thinks the fundamentals are and do they believe this will keep them competitive?

How does everyone keeps track of all the services that their app needs to run? For example, you use a particular email service or your app is a bunch of microservices. How do you keep track of all of that?

It’s #CyberMentoringMonday!!!! Are you looking for a professional mentor or to learn more about InfoSec? Are you experienced and willing to ‘give back’? Use this thread and hashtag to connect!

I haven't coded since last year hurr durr

This emerged during Office Hours Chat! today. (tiny 🧵.) Work describes the tasks we do and why we do them, but Job is only a mechanism to exchange tasks/time/energy for money. Sometimes we have the opportunity to do Work at Job and we often feel happier when we do this.

Where do you go to look at Software Design specifically for Front-End applications? Been going down this rabbit hole again and would just like to see if my thoughts match up with others in the space.

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Software design techniques represent, at their core, a guess about what a hypothetical future reader will understand more with a lower investment in effort, time, and money. I consider "guess" the key word of that claim. What makes you guess more accurately? Experience, knowing the audience, ...

Designing software means forever balancing two opposing consequences of the limits of working memory: - wanting conciseness and relying more on tacit knowledge to make writing code feel easier - wanting clarity and relying less on tacit knowledge to make understanding code feel easier No escape.

Hey folks, if you ever wanted a copy of Letters To a New Developer, the book I wrote, it is on sale. Usually $65, now available for $18. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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I got a Jamaican-specific ad from Twitch today. We are in the end times...

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

So I write a 'Weekly Goals' document every week. One of the best things I've picked up is adding a Retrospective in the Notes section of each doc. It mostly forces you to process why the week turned out the way it did. Keeps you from mindlessly doing activities that you think are adding value.

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That awkward moment when you're learning about a software design pattern and you decide to update an old app to explore the pattern... ...only to realize that you've been leveraging the pattern in your design and you just didn't have a name for it 🤣🤣🤣

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Is anyone familiar with Jotai _and_ TanStack Query? We’re looking for new maintainers! github.com/jotaijs/jota...

Look for a new (co-)maintainer · Issue #105 · jotaijs/jotai-tanstack-query

#103 (comment) Would anyone be interested in maintaining this library?

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Anybody here works at 1Password & would consider giving a referral? 🙌 There is a Rails Developer role that would be an excellent match for my experience! Please share, this could be really helpful after being laid off <3

Anyone here @ Vercel? Would love a referral for an eng role there! <3 If possible, please share the post!

Been seeing more roles targeted to juniors being posted lately. I don’t know if they were always being posted and I'm just now seeing them or if something happened to encourage people to invest more in juniors. Anyone have any insights on this?

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The "pipeline problem" is a myth. Women in tech exist. Black developers exist. Latinx designers exist. They just don't have access to your network. I've watched amazing talent get overlooked because of limited connections. So I built the bridge.

One of my favorite memories involving computers was when a technician had to debug my computer. We had Red Ants that would find their way into our computer and short a connection, electrocuting themselves. Happened at least another time after that with another Ant shorting out a tube monitor.

Move set if I was a fighting game character: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Power Nap ⬅️➡️⬅️🅰️ Dad Joke ⬇️↘️➡️🅱️ App Bug

I'm going through some old notes trying to migrate away from Evernote (which I haven't used in years now) and it's so fascinating seeing how my thinking have evolved from almost a decade ago. Happy that I took any notes much else the amount I ended up taking.

Name a show you’re positive no one remembers, but you 📺

Has anyone framed the need for someone to build strong Software Design Skills as being empathetic to not only to the next Engineer who needs to read and understand your code but to those who also need to run your code and keep it operational?

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