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  • Because I really wanted to see if (hand quotes) "#AI" was good or bad for my personal #coding development. I kept track of estimated time saved for the past 3 weeks. Week 1: 30 minWeek 2: 1 hrWeek 3: 1-2 hrs Not apples-to-apples each week because of different tasks (last week was a heavy coding…

  • #coding #programming #webdev "It's not enough for a program to work, it has to work for the right reasons. #Code working for the wrong reasons is code that's going to break when you least expect it." https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/be-suspicious-of-success/ "And since "correct for right reasons" is a much narrower target than "correct for any possible reason", we…

  • Dave Farley On What Makes High Quality Code "So I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to change the code. If it's easy to change, it's high quality; if it's hard to change, it's not." https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4713-dave-farley-on-what-makes-high-quality-code.htm #programming #coding #webdev

  • Lessons from Plain Text https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/plain-text/ "Your #texteditor hides details so you don’t have to overthink. However, there are many times when these details leak through the protection layer that your #text editor tries to provide. And you often don’t notice these complexities until you face them." #webdev #coding

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    Friend of mine yesterday: "I finally figured out timezones in #programming." Today: #PHP #coding #webdev #memes

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    I respect people's opinions and experiences on #coding and #AI. It's been my experience that AI (horrible general term, it's really Code Pilot in #VSCode ) has certainly helped me. Saved me a ton of time vs me trying to google something. Don't blindly trust – code still tested. Helps automate things and writes decent…

  • "2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid #HTML" #webdev #coding https://meiert.com/en/blog/html-conformance-2024/

  • Good Refactoring vs Bad Refactoring #programming #webdev #coding https://www.builder.io/blog/good-vs-bad-refactoring

  • TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them #programming #webdev #coding https://ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/

  • "Good #programmers worry about data structures and their relationships" #coding #webdev https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/good-programmers-worry-about-data "Try to reduce code complexity through stricter types on your interfaces or #databases. Spend extra time thinking through the data structures ahead of time. "

  • "#Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves" #coding #programming #webdev https://carbon-steel.github.io/jekyll/update/2024/06/19/abstractions.html

  • "notebooks are McDonalds of code" https://yobibyte.github.io/notebooks.html #programming #coding #webdev

  • "#OpenSource is a restaurant." "…At a restaurant, you eat your meal first, and then you are expected to pay for it. Yes, we could dine and dash. But we don’t. When presented with a tab for a meal we have just eaten, we pay the tab." https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/open-source-is-a-restaurant/ #webdev #coding

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    Classic Console Neue #font is good for command line font, FAR Manager, Putty, #VSCode font, IntelliJ, WebStorm/PHPStorm, etc. #coding https://webdraft.hu/fonts/classic-console/

  • "Clever code is probably the worst code you could write… and clear, readable code is probably the hardest #code to write." https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst #programming #coding

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    From time to time I stumble onto a modern Tweet worth adding to my https://davidbisset.social collection (via #mastodon). — About #coding / #tech industry: "Early in my career, I joined a project that used a lot of #SQL. I was new to SQL so I found an “intro to SQL” book on the company bookshelf,…

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    "You shouldn't care how your code works as long as it works." 🤔 #programming #coding

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    "Ever seen a function in code that is named for the very thing that it DOESN'T DO?" 🤔 #programming #webdev #coding #memes

  • Snake…in pure #HTML⁉️ [no #JavaScript, no #CSS, no images!!] 😱 https://dev.to/grahamthedev/snakein-pure-html-no-js-no-css-no-images-2ccg #coding

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    When you see a comment in the code and afraid to ask it's backstory. #programming #coding #memes

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    Lapse is an #opensource code "Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor" for Mac, Windows, and #Linux. Pre-Alpha stage. https://lapce.dev/ Looks from the screenshot similar to VSCode but reading more up on it. Always interested to see new editors (although VSCode is ok for me currently, and certainly fast enough… speed has been a "selling" point for…

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    Client: "We hired someone cheap who left us suddenly but project is practically done (we think). Looking for you to finish the infrastructure, push live, and commit to maintaining it." 🤔 #programming #coding

  • "Non-code contributions are the secret to #opensource success." https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-non-code-contributions "“Even if you write an amazing program, no one will use it if you don’t explain what it does and how to use it…" #WordPress #coding

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    Brilliant. Why I 🧡 the #web. "Worst way to share your code". https://code.xxut.ru/ #coding #programming

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    Someone made an alignment chart for a #developer naming variables and I love it. #programming #memes #coding

  • TIOBE Index for January 2024 "Compared to January 2023, #JavaScript climbed to 6th, #PHP to 7th, and C# remains 5th." #programming #coding https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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    I enjoyed this #programming post: "4 billion if statements" https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html #coding

  • I actually do this and I don't feel now it's so weird: "A simple #programming #productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow " https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/simple-software-engineering-habits #development #coding

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    When I saw this I instantly was triggered by my inability to properly at times initially define variable names in #PHP. #coding #developers

  • A list of useful, not-obvious hacks to get the most out of your browser’s1 debugger. Assumes an intermediate-level-or-higher understanding of the developer tools. https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks #Developers #Coding #JavaScript