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by john-tells-all 3y ago
I love Steampipe: it gives a simple and clear way to get feedback on many cloud resources. "select * from cloud" is a good synopsis. I'll check out Flowpipe!
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
> - Put all build/publish/test logic in Makefiles or scripts in the repo. This means that devs can run it locally as well. This is critical! In many teams Devs are "lazy", if any errors or weirdness happens in CI they
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
A moment's verbal reflection can radically reduce the time wastage. One time I told my producer that for each sentence in her email -- mostly questions -- each sentence translated to an HOUR of my time. This is fine, I'm happy to
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Sounds like an XY Problem: - user wants to do X but doesn't know how - they think that Y will work, and asks for help on Y - others are confused because Y seems strange https://xyproblem.info/
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
I'm 100% fine with opening a PR for "I just typed it" code... with two caveats: - a HUGE disclaimer at the top saying "DO NOT MERGE: not tested" - also, you'll probably want to politely ask someone for a review
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
I suggest your TS is moderately valuable, and certs are only a slight mention at best. I've met multiple interviewers who said if you know the material, you wouldn't bother with a certificate... For them a cert is an anti -signal
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
genius!
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Monoliths are so much easier to test and deploy! Even if one service needs to be developed separately, it can still live in the monolith. For dev, it's easier to test. For production, deploy the same monolith but have it only handl
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Bad. DevOps/Software Engineer with 20+ years experience. ~100 applications this year, a good number of interviews, but no offers yet. (2.5 calls this week scheduled) It seems I either get: - proto-startups with ~5 people and no concret
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Logically, a coding test is relevant to the job or profession at hand. Practically, it can be LeetCode. I enjoyed studying LC questions and answers, until I realized it was useless. In 20+ years of Software Engineering and DevOps jobs, I&#x
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
> particular technologies being used, including something called MarkLogic, an XML database XML database ? For a critical service used by 300 M people? Brrrrrr.....
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Pfft I used your "useless" app! I wanted to clean the keyboard and the app lets me do that without shutting the computer down. Very happy! Thanks.
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
thanks! title is "Complete Short Stories", and yes it's 63 hours long! I love Ballard, so this is a fine investment.
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
I use this constantly ! Summary: - open important page* on iPhone, using Chrome (* cat photo) - on Chrome on macOS or Chromebook: three-dots > History > iPhone There are stanzas for each device I use. The links get synced pretty
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
This is a wonderful story! I listened to the podcast version of this Damn Interesting post: https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portu...
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
I was there. I learned Python first. I saw Ruby as a "similar language, faster, more syntax-heavy, popular in Japan". Python "won" because of Guido's focus on ease of use by non-programmers. A bunch of scientists us
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Their work is incredible! Incredibly and unapologetically nerdy. They are an inspiration <3
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Seconded. Recently while refactoring I realized I was breaking nearly everything. Most code didn't have tests -- I'm working on an experiment. So, I coded 3-4 tests of the "run the main program and if it doesn't crash th
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Seconded. A debugger is a very efficient way to print out values in the middle of a computation. Example: in a test case. I do this even with high-level languages like Python.
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
I strongly recommend creating a GitHub Profile README and spending some time on it, and get others to review it. Imagine the interviewer will skim it for 10 seconds before your interview -- your personal README matters! They are unusual so
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
My commute has always been an hour each way. If the job is going well this isn't bad (podcasts and Audible), but it's a time sink. One day I realized I was falling asleep on the hour-long, 12-mile route home. (Los Angeles traffi
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Absolutely. [I'm also an artist] I find Developers like to have a specific Goal, then explore the space towards it. An Artist does the opposite : they make random marks and explore the marks that they "like". Art iteration i
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Strongly agree. Design Workflow: - spend little time making a couple design decisions -- lots of handwaving and "we'll figure it out" - bind these decisions, then write a tiny app to see what it looks like. What are the techn
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
The "looking for job" process was wearing for me until my friend told me a secret. Companies only give you two signals: 1) "we love you!" and 2) ghosting. Sometimes replies take a few days, which makes the two signals am
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
For others: this is the classic Out of the Tar Pit paper, which I also adore so so much. It promotes very explicit state management and functional programming to reduce accidental complexity. our friend ChatGPT summarizes the paper thus: &q
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
thanks for your work, Nick! Note Nick has tons of great content. Example: a video on how to use checklists to reduce risk on operations like database migrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOp7uog7_Xw and the corresp
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
For some reason there's a lot of people on Reddit who post "Sqlite is only for toys". In my experience Sqlite is great for everything , with a number of exceptions: https://dev.to/johntellsall/re-more-on
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
Note: many HN-ers don't post on their blog much, but they leave comments here on Hacker News. This site converts HN comments into an RSS feed: http://hnapp.com/ Example URL: http://hnapp.com/?q=author%3
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
https://dev.to/johntellsall older: http://johntellsall.com/ I blog on everything about Dev, DevOps, and Quality. A number of topics are on dev speed: fast Dev, fast DevOps (e.g. TDD with cloud resources), f
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by john-tells-all 3y ago
technical leadership determines technology... with some (or a lot) of "legacy" tech remaining in place. At a company, I was brought in to help Version 2 get off the ground (serverless everything, Typescript). Version 1 worked just

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