Currently VSCode just because I am not that into Vim and it supports most languages I have to deal with very well (ReasonML/OCaml, TS, JS).

But when OniVim2 will be completed, that will probably it. I pre-purchased it and the instant startup time while still supporting vscode extensions are already promising.

https://v2.onivim.io/

We converted all TCP APIs to UDP to ensure there are no handshakes...

OCaml

OCaml uses 63-bit integers by default to be faster:
https://blog.janestreet.com/what-is...

When you review a PR from a senior dev, find something improvable, suggest it and the dev updates it accordingly.

The first time when this happened made me the luckiest guy. It's still rare, though.

Fuck you fucking Amazon Video!

Wanted to watch the second part of the Mr. Robot series finale, but Amazon Germany has only the first available.

Both parts aired yesterday evening on USA Today, so I'm ANGRY!

Luckily, there are other ways, so maybe it was a little "Hacker-Challenge"...

But still, with all episodes they could have flunked it has to be the finale!

Folks, it's happening!

Look at this shit: they managed to create a web editor / infrastructure technology which enables you to write backends blazingly fast. No deploy time, no git (versioning with feature flags).

Sadly, this comes with the worst vendor lock-in ever. But it is still a great idea to take the approach to drastically remove complexity out of today's software.

https://darklang.com/

I am torn. But I would prefer if it was OSS of course (to be able to self-host it).

Even if he's a younger guy than most other examples, my mention is:

Jordan Walke

He's the inventor of React, which probably changed the way to write (web-)apps for a lot of people and was based on a prototype written in StandardML.

He's also created ReasonML which is not only in many ways a more fitting language to write React, but also a good systems language (props to OCaml and it's unbreakable type system). Many React concepts/patterns have their origins in functional language concepts, including reducers and hooks.

"Webpack not working if its Monday"

https://github.com/JeffreyWay/...

I don't see the issue here? Not working on Monday is completely expected behavior, at least for humans. Why shouldn't this apply to software?

> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000)LaTeX
FUUUUUUU Latex!

I don't care about the badness of my hboxes, cause I'm a badass myself.

At least the document looks nice.

New dev domains. Grab them while they are hot. Only $ 11.5k + $ 12 a year!

(or just $ 12 starting from Feb. 28th)
https://domains.google/tld/dev/

My only nemesis are sales people.
* They try to sell the impossible to the customer.
* They think even the biggest change takes only some minutes to implement, and tests do not even exist.
* They promise to deliver an app within half the time which means we have to cut out animations or some tests to deliver when due.
* They often get a commission (sometimes not as part of profit but revenue!) for calling their pals and asking them if they wanna buy something new (some say they also take the risk, but they don't, the company does).

There may be exceptions, but my perceived ratio between good and bad sales is about 1/20.
Now I am in a very small company with only one sales guy. Guess what, he is a good one! I hope he stays forever.

Wanna attend the developer conference?

White and male? Pay half a grand.
Female? Black? LGBTQIA? You get a free ticket!

Seriously, how would they verify if you are gay?
It appears to me that it's easily exploitable.

Writing a library is so much nicer than writing an app. You can concentrate on the core thing you want to achieve and need to handle just a few files.

And you can still test it live even if it's a node module: just symlink it into the node_modules folder of your app.

You know what is at least equally hard as naming variables?

Finding fitting icons to button actions!

With some icons you rather confuse your users compared to using no icon at all.
Others may fit the button text but not the context in your use case.

And there are so many icon sets out there that you need to search for something and hope that you stumble upon a good one.

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I am a hacker!

Yet another nice (bad) tool with a funny name: volkswagen

> Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.

LOOOOL

https://github.com/auchenberg/...

Damn, we seriously need a more professional system to test (the appearance of) our web apps in all browsers.

Also especially the resizing behaviour with flex items & Co.

What do you use for that? It can be a paid solution, if it is not too expensive.

Not my rant, but look
http://tonsky.me/blog/...

Makes me question my career, but he is right.

We need to build our products on better foundations. But who builds the better foundations ?

What's the simplest way to deploy a small node project to a private root server, possibly dockerized?

I feel like there are thousands of possibilities nowadays, like Ansible and so on. But is there something more in the the KISS way? Apart from just hacking a bash script together of course, it should be portable (and work on windows too).

https://github.com/python/cpython/...

Seriously? Isn't that pretty obvious from the context that slavery is no subject here?

But it is pretty ironic they merged that into master...

When I was freelancing and still studying 60 hrs a week.
~20 hrs. bread-and-butter job
~20 hrs. for University
~20 hrs. writing a full-stack application for a startup

I did that for about 3 months, afterwards I luckily had no classes left.
Only, the thesis is still open. But on the other hand, the freelance work for the startup was a pretty good reference for scoring an actual, well-paid position which made me leave my old job as well as freelancing.

Now I work roughly 40 hours a week with nearly as much freedom as a freelancer but less paperwork.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

A day in the life of a paypal dev.

1. Slurp some starbucks
2. Do a lil' Meeting
3. Eat lunch
4. 1on1 Meeting with manager for one hour
5. Scroll over some code and look at the beautiful Momentum ToDo app
6. Bid some employee farewell (seems to happen every day there apparently)

Sounds pretty efficient. When you write no code you cannot create any bugs...

My mom asked me to speed up her PC's startup process. I looked into it and and probably found the problem: G Data.

I told her she has to delete it, there is windows defender anyways (and virus scanners are just snake oil). She refused and said: But I bought it from the local IT shop. They said it is the best.

I said: Yeah because they cannot sell windows defender...

She still argued that she paid for it and wants to keep it.

That was were I said: then enjoy your slow startups.

She also said she feels more secure with it. 🙄

I would not even be able to work with that PC! Its not old at all, but the permanent scanning comes at a high cost and probably does not help much.

But she trusts that local it store guy more than me apparently.

Just found there is an alternative to create-react-app with parcel. It's called create-react-app-parcel or in short CRAP.

To initialise a new project you even do

crap sample-project

Nice!

I am scared.

Google detected unusual traffic from my home network?

When I search anything in incognito mode, this page appears.

No incognito mode -> Google search works.

Feels like an attempt to force me to use my google account.

Ladies and Gentlemen!

The war is over now.

Sauce: https://twitter.com/vuejs/status/...

That moment when you can't help but drop from the lecture.

TRIGGERED!

Do you feel that mobile development destroys your phone battery? At least when developing React-Native, I use a cable most of the time and thus, the phone gets charged.

After some time it feels like the battery is draining faster. I experienced this with the second phone already.

Makes most sense if you have a separate dev phone, I guess...

This is ridiculous.
https://businessinsider.com/apple-m...

Looks like only Inuit can utilise the full power of the new MacBook Pro.

Just learned that "Updation" is a thing. Seems to be a common word in India.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/d...

Seems logical, if you think about Deletion, Creation. But is there also a Readation?