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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   You're right, "technical debt" doesn't raise any sense of urgency. What people actually mean by technical debt is that there is a trade-off to be made: short-term gains at the expense of long-term costs. Your kitchen met
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   This is true if you think of programming as chunking out "code". But great authors are not great because they can reproduce coherent sentences fast. The same goes for programmers. Actually most of the hard problems don't real
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   I totally agree. Technical debt is a vague metaphor that is not very helpful. It doesn't accelerate discussions. It doesn't help us make better or quicker decisions. In fact the opposite is true, someone will say something about t
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   I agree 100%. If you want to deliver valuable software you need short iterations because you need to validate assumptions. Anything you build more than the bare minimum is not included this feedback loop so your assumptions are not getting
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   Do this metaphors really help anyone? To me it only obfuscates the situation. It doesn't give me any clarity. Honestly "technical debt" doesn't mean much to me and I've seen the words mostly being used as a shieldin
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   I immediately thought so too. Why confuse everyone?
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   Why specifically programming? I think every knowledge profession is at risk, or at the very minimum suspect to a huge transformation. Doctors, analysts, lawyers, etc.
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   Is it really such a big deal that there are multiple "good enough" solutions available? I understand it is suboptimal, especially for beginners, but dependency management in Python is a solved problem for a while now. And also the
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   by mmcnl 2y ago

   Sometimes there are requirements to separate clusters on the network level.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    In my company (large corporate) we only have 3 clusters: dev/acc/prod. Everything runs on it. I love it.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    I didn't grow up in the trenches like you did, but nonetheless I think Kubernetes has a very user-friendly API. Imo Kubernetes is only complex because IT infrastructure is complex. It just makes the complexity transparant and manageabl
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Public key cryptography (and specifically the Diffie-Hellman key exchange) is arguably the greatest mathematical discovery of the 20th century. I guess digital trust wouldn't exist without it.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Nothing wrong with security by obscurity. It's widely used and it is effective. Security is security. Usually there are easier and more effective methods though, so if it's your only security layer then you might have missed a few
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Strangely enough I'm at the complete opposite end of the author. Docker Compose imo operates exactly at the right abstraction layer and to me the author never really explains what the problems with Docker Compose actually are. Imo Dock
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Optics are not dumb. Corporates are very noisy. It is difficult to extract the signal from the noise if you're not working on a project full-time (as most people are, except for you, the tech lead), and it will definitely not happen by
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    This is a great and insightful article. Very helpful. Thanks a lot, author.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Very interesting and good write-up. PS. Be cautious with using subjective words like "simple". It can be really off-putting as a reader if you think something is difficult and the author claims it's simple.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    I meant using a physical device indeed.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Two displays with the lid open. "The display engine of the M4 family is enhanced to support two external displays in addition to a built-in display." https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intr
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Why would that matter? You can use a MacBook in CI too?
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    I had some trouble migrating from Poetry to uv because the dependency constraints are different. With Poetry, you can use caret ^ and tilde ~ version constraints. Apparently this is outside the PEP spec so uv doesn't implement it. Unde
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    BetterDisplay does this. It adds HiDPI resolutions which render at 2x and then downscales.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Exactly. Even shorter summary: MQTT broker is stateless thus easy to manage and hard to break. This makes MQTT reliable.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    You can install Gnome Software with one command if you don't like snaps. That's a negligible amount of tinkering for the average Linux user.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    I have two websites written in JS that render entirely server-side. They are blazing fast, minimal in size and reach 100/100 scores on all criteria with Lighthouse. On top of that they're highly interactive, no build step required
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Choose the right tool for the job. Every engineering decision is a trade-off. No one blames the hammer when it's used to insert a screw into a wall either. SPA frameworks like Vue, React and Angular are ideal for web apps. Web apps and
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    Every solution to any problem is trivial once the correct problem has been identified.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    UK gov website is great. It looks great and accessible too.
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    I don't really get this "frameworks vs. web components" discussion. They are both tools to solve different problems. Frameworks exist to render your view as function of state in a declarative way. They use web primitives to d
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    by mmcnl 2y ago

    KDE works the same.