A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Mathias Verraes on Technical Debt: The problem isn’t technical debt, it’s unmanaged technical debt. In any company, the CFO knows exactly how much financial debt there is. There are spreadsheets, quarterly reports, payment plans, and options to refinance or sell debt. But ask your CTO how much technical debt your organisation has, and you’ll get …
Nice Star Wars fan film depicting Obi-Wan Kenobi as he lives in seclusion on Tatooine, all whilst keeping an eye out for a young Luke Skywalker who’s living with his aunt and uncle.
Interesting new product (Beta) from the Puppet folks: Project Nebula automates continuous deployment of applications to multiple cloud-native targets. Our objective is to dramatically simplify continuous deployment of cloud native applications and infrastructure by composing the tools and workflows your developers already use into simple, repeatable deployment workflows. Project Nebula →Simplify continuous deployment with Project …
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useEffect(fn, []) is not the new componentDidMount()
Brad Westfall from React Training on why the React hook useEffect(fn, []) is not the same as componentDidMount(): When developers start learning hooks having come from classes, they tend to think “I need to run some code once when we mount, like how componentDidMount() works. Ah, I see that useEffect with an empty dependency array …
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Nice demo/explainer by Louis Hoebregts on how to generate a pattern of Connected Vertices using p5.js 💁♂️ Use the included slider to advance the steps.
Google Maps Hack by Simon Weckert: 99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. …
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Until now, the standard for all mobile development at Shopify was native mobile development. We built mobile tooling and foundations teams focused on iOS and Android helping accelerate our development efforts. While these teams and the resulting applications were all successful, there was a suspicion that we could be more effective as a team if …
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Are you constantly shipping features and cutting corners? Then you might be working at a Feature Factory. Here are 12 symptoms: No measurement of impact. Rapid shuffling of teams and projects. Success theater around “shipping”. Infrequent (acknowledged) failures and scrapped work. No connection to core metrics. No PM retrospectives. Obsessing about prioritization. No tweaking. Culture …
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There are plenty of opportunities for friction in the user experience when logging in, particularly while entering a two factor authentication code. As developers we should be building applications that support the need for account security but don’t detract from the user experience. Sometimes it can feel as though these requirements are in a battle …
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