Im such a huge fan C# now after working on my own little api for the last month. With strict typing im not running api call after call after call with print_r or console.log everywhere trying to debug everything. 9 out of 10 times it just tells me before I even compile. Thats such a foreign idea to me and yet so beautiful. Now I still think working with websockets and the such is easier with node but man entity core is a breeze, .net core is as agnostic as I had always hoped .net would be. Im simply loving every moment of it. My rant is that ducktyped languages will now feel very burdening after working with C#.

Wow I finally got .net cores JWT middle ware working. Really nice to work with once it’s going.

Open the country back up or match businesses shut out on their income dollar for dollar. Period

My company now of three months has proven to be the most perfect environment for me to pursue what I would call a long road to senior level expertise in software development. They say you can only grow as large as the room your in will allow. Everyone around me has 30+ years of experience and is ridiculously intelligent. Theres not one feature that does not correctly use sufficient design patterns,. Code is actively refactored to the point that it reads like a book. New technologies are pursued, btw dont tell me mongo cant be proficient in a large environment, these guys have proven differently (it just takes the right abstractions to keep it safe). I encourage every dev to find that team that pushes you to be more.

Im starting to think fat client architectures a dumb idea. For any given application how many times is the api rebuilt? And how many times is the client rebuilt. You have a client for IOS, android, web, desktop, maybe smart watch. With that in mind why would i pass all of the heavy functionality off on the client ?

We heard you like being declarative. So we put declaratives within yo declaratives within yo declaratives

So front end engineer is a relatively new role if working with spas is a requisite for the title. It’s no wonder everyone on here’s like “ya f front end man I just write what’s needed to fix the issue” “f js” “f it’s not being reactive”. It’s so clear now. Today’s front end tooling just hasn’t sat long enough with everyone. I get it. The paradigms surrounding reactive components and the hierarchies and the state management resemble hardly anything on a server side application. Coming from a Traditional server side app with fresh eyes, it can be an absolute cluster fuck to wrangle in your mind. And with that I’m sorry for all you old fucks that have to learn it right in your glory years of development when you thought you were finally past all the “newness” . Guess your gonna have to ask the hipster JavaScript kid with checkered skinny jeans and stupid beard for help with Redux

Does anyone or has anyone struggled with Understanding get rebase ? I just can’t grasp everything it does in practice. I’m theory it makes sense but when someone tells me to debase off something to make something happen, I’m lost

I’ve been writing a node.js service that automates kubernete commands so users aren’t having to constantly call for newly generated pod names and then container names and so on so forth.

For instance it would ask you if you want to delete a pod, Exec into a container, fetch logs on a pod. It would list all namespace, pods and containers for those pods for you to pick from by just providing a corresponding number.

With this kind of service assist anybody who is constantly having to restart, delete, fetch logs and delete with Kubernetes?

I wish I had the time that these single, childless devs do to pursue complex distros, new tooling and app ideas. But alas I have my 1-1.5 hours a night to fiddle around. It’s never enough time to actually do anything so I end up watching the Witcher for the third time or some shit

None once so ever. Keep slaving away until other large tech companies start leading the way into remote solutions during the epidemic.

I need to know if I’m just going insane or if this is common in other work environments. I’ve had three feature improvements now that required me to connect to our staging Redis to obtain a hash map example that I would then manually put in my Local redis so that the process I am running can successfully run. That’s just one terrible example, I feel like I am constantly making changes to mongo and redis in order to make my environment act the way it is supposed to just so I can properly test my jobs. I don’t think I’ve ever written an application that has resulted in developers having to have a deep understanding of every database abstraction just so they can claw their way through manual database entries so they can continue doing their job

Every team has that dev that comments every last opinion they can think of on every single PR. I'll have conflicting conflicts between two team mates, one wanting me to take a functional approach while one wants a more imperative decision tree. How about this, if you want a declarative approach, define it in the damn code style guidelines which is pretentious enough for us to have with a team of 10.

Hardest part of development is the pressure of knowing there’s 200,000+ users sitting behind your commit

"I can teach you the physics of riding a bicycle. Indeed, the classical mathematics is relatively straightforward. Gravity, friction, angular momentum, center of mass, and so forth, can be demonstrated with less than a page full of equations. Given those formulae I could prove to you that bicycle riding is practical and give you all the knowledge you needed to make it work. And you’d still fall down the first time you climbed on that bike."

How beautifully put

Building out our new prototypes API with .NET core. Whats special about this decision is we primarily work with php, node.js and ruby for our server side needs.

After playing with C# for a few months though, I felt as if we were being neglectful in our own experience by not experimenting with a strict typed language with the amount of projects we undertake.

I'll say C#s documentation is exquisite. Php's docs give me what I expect which is "this method takes string, array, ect. It returns a string under these circumstances, array under these and therefore returns mixed. Great, no biggie. Its fast as hell to write with and no one minds writing an "instanceof" or "isArray()" here and there to make sure things are cohesive.

But working with C#/.Net im learning is a whole other ball game. Documented to the moon and back for any given topic. It seems to be focused more so around the correct engineering of low level components and following specific paradigms then it is "getting shit done" while still offering the tools and interfaces needed to scaffold turn key APIs.

I dont know how I'll feel coming out of this build but diving into its currently eye opening.

This is dUcKtYpEd diverging from his roots.

Broke down and traded the gaming mouse for an Apple trackpad 2

Would I use php for a api prototype? Sure, it’s quick to build out with. Would I build my own personal projects in laravel with the max team potential reaching a few devs? Definitely, laravels fantastic and it’s testing suites a breeze.

Would I use it for a large scale application build with a large upward momentum? A project that will become a company and take on teams of devs? I’m a lot more hesitant. When you’re working with PHP or any ducktyped language, you really have to enforce good documentation and annotation standards.

Strict typed languages you could say document themselves with their strict nature where php , JavaScript, racial you have to rely on the dev to include those necessary annotations/comments. Otherwise you have PR requeststhat make little sense.

You bring on newcomers who can’t understand what goes where looking at anonymous functions taking objects that aren’t even type hinted. I will say though that the PHP I knew and loved has morphed into a more strictly typed (when preferred) beast.

I’m really quite happy with where it has come and you really either get the language or you don’t. Ruby no matter how hard I try it’s still confusing cluster fuck to me in the same way PHP is an annoyance to many. And that’s ok

Having to learn SOAP protocol. I actually feel rather innovative learning to write a SOAP server/client and then i remember that SOAP is dead and I am not doing myself any favors other then gathering an understanding of the past.

JavaScript: can you recursively call and sync method? How’s that work?

Scrum master certified!!

I won’t hire someone who is arrogantly aware of their own gifted intelligence. People like that are a walking anti pattern

2020: ima tell y’all how I tell my fellow devs at the office. You only get out what you put in. Reach for what you want and understand what the market demands. If the markets flooding with PWAs then don’t spend weeks learning Wordpress plugins.... apply yourself harder then anyone else in the room to be inner-twined with the markets needs so that your worth is higher every year. Double your knowledge and worth this year.

Got the offer, accepted, just put in my notice. Flying out to silicone for training in 2 weeks, all uphill from there.

I’ve spent collectively 20 hours interviewing for this job. I’m suppose to receive the offer today. I have heard nothing yet and it’s the afternoon now. I’m honestly a nervous wreck and I find it hilariously sad. Just send the offer!!!! I can’t wait any longer!

Devs, how much additional time do you put in each day outside of work to keep up with technology and/or work on side projects ?

Right now I’m estimating an hour a night I believe.

AWS: Use "Easy Setup" to utilize the industries suggested preset for your database needs. (Buttons ordered first in and pre-selected).

I use easy setup as I trust amazon to abstract the granular settings and guide me through best practices rather than reading through their 600 page manual to configure an Aurora instance.

10 days later, 700$ bill comes in.
Thanks AWS 👍

Recruiter: no clear answer to rather your hired yet but you are trending positively 🤦‍♂️. Trending. Positively.

Third interview, this time with the CTO and CEO. They were very neutral so I’m not sure what to expect next. I’m so use to the convo going like “alright let us figure out when we can get you in here” followed by details. These guys asked how much notice my current job would need but that’s all. Left me very questioning. Maybe that’s just the professional way of handling interviews but they seemed very very political about their company. That shit scares me. Can leave the politics behind, I’m just trying to move your business forward, not trying to battle over who has the most degrees or reputable past businesses

Need job advice:
I love where I work but I just had an interview which a much bigger company that is offering 25k more!
I
m so nervous that they'll call me back with the next steps for speaking to the CTO that I almost just wish they wouldn't. I dont know if thats me actually not wanting this job or just so nervous about leaving my job I love for a newer position that Id rather not bother with it.

Regarless, my family needs the money and Id never make the same where im at. Any advice?