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Wait til you learn about "brownfield" projects, which apparently is also a thing! (It's the opposite of greenfield)

At my last company I helped build the experimentations platform that processes millions of requests per day. I have some thoughts: - The most useful resource we've found was from Spotify, of all…

But this gives us an excuse to moan about cookie banners, so up to the front page it goes

Is this something that people are clamouring for? How many of y'all would be using this?

If I were in the market to learn another language, I'd go for C++

The doubt comes from not knowing. Not knowing if a different life choice 20 years ago would have made them happier now, because they never tried. If they gave it a go and it didn't work out, then…

It is much better that the young person tries it and decides it's not for them, than for the young person to never try and to have that doubt gnawing at them for the rest of their life.

Starter packs are such a cool and obvious idea for onboarding new users. Probably won't be long before the other sites introduce something similar.

Bluesky lets you configure your feeds, or add new ones: https://bsky.app/feeds Default Bluesky has the "Discover" feed and the "Following" feed. The "Discover…

If you're worried about your content on Bluesky or whatever getting hijacked, you should consider POSSE: https://indieweb.org/POSSE (One of the strengths of Bluesky over X is tha…

I'm relatively new on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/weiyen.net I've been posting Postgres stuff for some reason The Postgres starter pack is worth following too: h…

JavaScript will be killed off by webassembly for about 5 years now

I sometimes think about one of the Star Trek episodes where the ship was getting attacked by a "SQL injection", and I think that's pretty realistic

Perhaps it's enough to POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)? Post your content on your own site, but link back to them on all your favourite social media sites. That seems like a reas…

I use LLMs to write "secondary" code. Things like deployment scripts, autoformatters, Github Actions, Dockerfiles or Kubernetes config. Stuff that isn't strictly part of the main web pr…

No. I should probably give it a go (I have a mastodon account from 2017(!), but there was so little activity back then I think I just forgot it was there.)

Half built stuff still counts =) I don't think anything is ever truly finished anyway

The Github frontend appears to be React now. That said, most (not all) of it still works with Javascript disabled

An overdesigned, overengineered personal website

For a side project I created a new account on X and on Bluesky, both before the election. Bluesky asks what my interests are. I said software engineering, science and tech. Bluesky showed a lot of pos…

I have been experimenting with putting up short TILs on my blog, as an alternative to writing notes, and so far I think it has been a positive experience. Putting it out there in public means I spend …

Thanks for sharing this! It looks so much cleaner in my eyes. Plus it uses constant-sized indents, which means less futzing about with spaces and all that. Also means you can comment out the first sel…