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Here’s my opinion on the new typescript compiler: You should write programs in the language you want to.

@margeditor.bsky.social Good morning! Who’s working/Anyone working on the Elixir brain teasers book? Lots of other language options, but Elixir is curiously missing.

Engineers are not smarter than everyone, and engineers do not get to wreck everything. The fact that engineers *are* wrecking everything is a cascading systems failure.

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yeah but also at the highest level, our beliefs about what "being good at tech" gives people blanket permissions for! This is alllllll over the framings of this. Like why am I seeing Github contribution graphs splashed over linkedin with men crowing "I'd trust this guy to run the govt"

"You don’t need a cutting-edge system to deliver most software requirements" Think about this the next time some shiny, new, complex framework/tool comes around. I love working with "boring" technology for this reason. (From: jacquiread.com/posts/softwa... via @tekiegirl.bsky.social) #YesDesign

Software Design: What went wrong? | Jacqui Read

Design should be a developer’s bread and butter. Changing how we talk about software under development is the start of building better software systems.

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Proud grandboss moment here.

Dylan@dylbyl.com · 2y ago

don't tell my boss's boss but i've been commenting memes on PRs lately i just used this when asked to proofread someone's info panel, journalism days coming in clutch

Optimist operator, getting locked out of their AWS root account: "Great news, as of today our infrastructure is now immutable"

My kids have no idea how to communicate at any volume below 11. These snowstorms may be the end of my hearing as we know it.

Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...

Questions you can always ask in an incident review: What made this particular incident hard to deal with? What skills helped the responders diagnose and remediate?

Pantheon is one of my favorite sci-fi animes. The story and the ambience absolutely sucks me in. I can’t wrap my head around why they couldn’t have officially released the second season in the US. At least let me buy it on iTunes or something. Why make me resort to crappy YouTube rips?

There's a beautiful discussion of this mindset around bugs/defects in "They Write the Right Stuff" (back in '96!) about the group that writes space shuttle software: www.eng.auburn.edu/~kchang/comp... This is the essay that made me want to be a software developer.

Anyone have any solid resources for best practices on using Phoenix PubSub that’s junior friendly? Bonus points if it also serves as a soft intro to BEAM concepts to explain the technical bits? (Or is this something that needs written?) #ElixirLang

I really enjoyed my Sonos speakers that I had configured using the old app, but configuring my new Beam and Era 100 satellites in the new app was a miserable experience. There's a cautionary tale here. Brand goodwill is tough to gain and easy to lose. Go into the gamble eyes wide open.

Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

Last year’s app debacle has finally led to Spence’s ouster.

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Question for the BlueSky engineering friends! How frequently do you like to see updates from your team or others during an (high impact) incident? Personally, I like to see them hourly or so even if there’s no tangible update to judge if there’s a point where I need to pitch in earlier.

Definitely a welcome change. Fewer clicks to get the newest version from search results!

David Bernheisel@david.bernheisel.com · 2y ago

AWESOME! Coming in ex_doc soon is a new button to go to the latest version's documentation if you happen to be on an earlier version. I often find myself googling something, getting a hexdocs.pm link but for some inexplicable reason it puts me into an old version of it github.com/elixir-lang/...

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In case you didn't know this, you can sell your self-published programming book on pragprog.com. 50% royalties and we market it along with our other books. We call this our "distribution" model. Hit me up for details at margaret.eldridge@prapprog.org.

Focus By Demotion a use case for #CSS `:hover > :not(:hover)` nerdy.dev/hover-not-ho...

I agree with this. I have deliberate conversations in interviews about benefits and culture, and I invite people to ask about whatever I’ve missed. An interview designed not to get into these details is broken.

Valerie Phoenix@digitalblkhippy.bsky.social · 2y ago

People are so quick to say a candidate is a red flag if the first question they ask is about benefits or PTO, yet they never stop and question if there’s something wrong with their interview process. If anyone has to ask about these things it’s because that information wasn’t given.

Hey all! Need some help! I’m getting some ideas together for a conference, and I’d love to see your favorite software/programming t-shirts from conferences! My favorite is a swag t-shirt from Steel City Ruby 2014. What’s yours?

Beyond amped that Gojira’s Mea Culpa is on the slate for a 2025 metal performance Grammy. I’d give almost anything for an entire album of that.

I’m excited to get into those type system changes. Really loving where that work is going.

Peter Solnica 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇪🇺@solnic.dev · 2y ago

Elixir 1.18.0-rc0 was released today 😃 More progress on the type system and now there's built-in JSON support. Lovely! #ElixirLang https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.18.0-rc.0

I play the drop music from Helldrivers 2 when I’m joining meetings. Dun dun dun duuuuun…

Peter Ullrich@peterullrich.com · 2y ago

Still dropping. Protecting freedom with one bullet at a time. #Helldivers2

Being able to build and deploy quickly on Fly is so incredible satisfying. Going from zero to a minimal Elixir app deployed and collecting webhook payloads in 10 minutes totally supercharged my progress on an otherwise frustrating integration. 10/10

Sunday's are for watching the SEO course by @dannypostma.com so that maybe my next startup will actually make some money 🤞🤞🤞

Weirdly enough… My book reading has gone way up since I’ve started a regular gym routine. I sit my iPad on the treadmill and manage to get 15 or 20 pages a session. Definitely my favorite new habit.