DOGE Plans to Rebuild [US Social Security COBOL] Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse | WIRED
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113053
#SoftwareEngineering #cobol #doge #trump
Dev Containers are great way to try out the latest versions of .NET. Deploy to a dev container for some safe playground testing without changing your current environment!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-in-dev-container/
Because I said so…
…Is never a valid justification to get your team to take a specific approach...
Nachdem ich gerade in der Bäckerei den ständigen Kampf gegen das Kassensystem beobachten konnte der Aufruf and alle #uidesign und #softwareengineering Kollegen: Nehmt euch Zeit mit euren Benutzern! Bevor ich in die interne Entwicklung gewechs bin hat sich mein Team mindestens einmal im Jahr ins Lager gestellt und die Kollegen im Lager begleitet. Man lernt so viel darüber wie das system benutzt wird, validiert die eigenen Annahmen und kriegt viele kleine Probleme mit.
Happy Monday !
What are your working plans for this week?
I start today implementing domain events in the source code from another team
GetType vs Get-Member in PowerShell Tip #22 #PowerShellScripting #LearnPowerShell #CodingForBeginners #softwareengineering #coding
Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/stratospheric is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #AmazonWebServices #Java #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering #CloudComputing
Data Munging With Perl [2ed]: Techniques for data recognition, parsing, transformation and filtering https://leanpub.com/datamungingwithperl by Dave Cross is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Perl #DataStructures #SoftwareEngineering #books #ebooks
Wow, groundbreaking revelation: #AI still requires human intervention! 
Who knew that a social platform isn't built by waving a magic wand and expecting code to write itself? 
Verdi's wife learns that software engineering might just require some, you know, engineering. 
https://verdikapuku.com/posts/the-death-of-the-software-engineer-by-a-thousand-prompts/ #HumanCollaboration #SoftwareEngineering #TechRevelation #SocialPlatform #HackerNews #ngated
Filter with Where-Object in PowerShell Tip #21 #PowerShellScripting #LearnPowerShell #CodingForBeginners #softwareengineering #PowerShellTutorial #coding #Scripting
Claims like "X language is for beginners" or "Y language isn't suitable for real problems" are just dressed-up versions of "X language sucks". They are pseudo-religious arguments, not technical ones. They are not useful in choosing technology to use.
A "real programmer" chooses languages, libraries, and other technical things based on utility, not holy wars (like "vi vs. Emacs", or "tabs vs. spaces").
e.g. For different problems and situations, you might choose a language because it is technically suited to a particular problem class. Or you might choose it because the group to work on the problem has deep experience with it, even though another language is slightly better suited to the problem. Or you might pick one based on a dozen other factors - and usually you will actually use more than one in making the choice.
Hollow assessments like "Python is for beginners" aren't useful. The people who make such statements are generally not particularly well-versed in the thing they are criticizing, and possibly not with programming/engineering in general.
If you want real assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of a language or other part of a tech stack, they're out there - but they will be articles and essays, not sentences.
Unlock Your Engineering Confidence - Interview With Maria Glazunova
I've said it a million times and I'll say it a million more: Communication is a critical skill for software engineers. And if you don't want to listen to me, listen to Maria Glazunova who I had the pleasure of interviewing in this video!
Maria coaches many software engineers and tech professionals on how to improve their communication skills. Many of these people have English as their second (or third) language -- but the fundamentals of what we discuss regarding communication apply to EVERYONE.
Thanks for the awesome chat, Maria!
Which programming language should you choose?
It doesn't matter. Pick any. As long as you’re gluing libraries, worshipping frameworks, and elegantly concealing incompetence behind layers of "magic", you’re doing just fine.
After all, it's all just ancient text rituals running on toasters if you want to.
#Programming #CodeLife #TechHumor #DeveloperLife #FrameworkHell
#CodeMagic #SoftwareEngineering #ToasterDrivenDevelopment #DevSatire
#ChooseYourWeapon #CodingTruths #AncientCodeRituals #GluingCodeTogether #coding
“Take This On-Call Rotation And Shove It”, Scott Smitelli (https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/take-oncall-and-shove-it/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498213
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ki4dkb/take_this_on_call_rotation_shove_it
So hand-wavy 
; you still need #OnCall for critical services with defined SLAs 
:
“Breaking Up With On-Call”, Alexey Karandashev (https://reflector.dev/articles/breaking-up-with-on-call/).
One of my favorite memories from working in AAA video games:
I was at work late one night, like 11PM, during crunch. The lights were out at the office. I was sitting in my cubicle, with my headphones on, watching a Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail DVD on the TV hooked up to my Xbox devkit.
Suddenly, I hear a voice behind me. I turn to find my boss's boss's boss, a key producer on the project, behind me.
1/3
Hilariously low sample size, but I’m glad I’m not the only one with this problem. I’m more strict in code reviews than the vast majority of people I’ve worked with, but I still regularly find myself working with other people’s code and saying “this is terrible, who approved this? Oh wait I did.”
It’s really hard to fully understand code and its tradeoffs by looking at it statically. A really thorough sense of how it hangs together really seems to depend on working with it, making changes and considering alternatives.
This is why I don’t believe people who say that LLM-generated code is fine as long as you review it thoroughly. In my experience code review misses major problems *all the time*.
#programming #coding #SoftwareEngineering #LLMs #copilot #GenAI
https://social.treehouse.systems/@jnkrtech/114229834458020279
The Curious Case of Beam CPU Usage (2019)
https://stressgrid.com/blog/beam_cpu_usage/
#HackerNews #CuriousCase #BeamCPUUsage #2019 #TechInsights #PerformanceAnalysis #SoftwareEngineering
