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And unfortunately “productive” needs to be part of the package. I have worked with some incredibly smart people that I really respected who had a very hard time getting anything do…

You can earn cash shop points by doing a lot of grinding.

Thanks, I really didn’t get what they meant with the example they were using. Out of curiosity why is writing everything as a single element type more ergonomic? I’ve not done fron…

Heh. Going to be a lot less maintenance work if they are.

At work we use snapshot tests to see visual changes to ui. It helps a lot with code review especially with adding edge case data to tight designs. We use ui tests specifically for …

Spoiler: no one thinks they should have to pay for software these days.

It really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “…

Unity is a really good alternative. Flash kinda went sideways and started really trying to lean into the Java crowd with flex. Unity is more like what would have happened if Flash …

Yes. And the tooling is pretty straightforward to plug into generally if you need to tweak things. I’ve found that the biggest barrier here is generally not in openapi tooling, but…

“I don’t have to finish this” is also quite liberating

It also doubles as documentation that’s forced to stay up to date. Code has a way of becoming hard to follow especially when edge cases and performance enhancements are added.

Adding software can help. Alfred can either replace spotlite or run along side it. I’ve found it much faster and easier to use. You can customize it pretty well. (Just don’t downlo…

I think the problem here is that there are very few places where there is any time between pressing feature demands. This always seemed to me what the agile guys were saying. The a…

It takes a bit of time. You’d want to do it one by one. I’ve done it the other way (mono repo code to library) and it’s worth the time to keep the history around where you are work…

Some of the best engineers I’ve ever worked were just “going with the flow”. They certainly brought tons to the table. Some people are just quiet and don’t like conflict. If you as…

I think it’s more about the centerpiece being subjects rather than people. I read Reddit threads all the time and comments there are front and center. There’s plenty terrible subs …

I’m surprised Reddit is even considered social media. The anonymity of the users and focus on subjects over people make it a very different experience. With Facebook and instagram …

“Programming guides”! Those were so awesome because they explained the whole system. The core graphics one was an absolute lifesaver when I started working with iOS. Apples UI a fr…

I really wish apple would spend more time on their tooling. A lot of the new features like async/await and SwiftUI have way less visibility than what came before. A lot of this stu…

They do start to care when it stops working or it takes forever to change due to it being a mess. This is the natural state most projects end up at unless the devs are putting in a…

It doesn’t sound like burnout to me. It sounds more like organizational issues that have left the author with a very limited amount of time to work on a sluggish product they can’t…

Slack it really great for getting info but it definitely can become a firehose and a distraction. Many of those fire and forget posts are from people equally as exhausted with it a…

Tests are the only spec I know of that stays up to date. It’s code that is executed regularly and has to change by design if specs change. That doesn’t help a ton in your case as w…

It was also better for the really quiet ones. There’s some really great programmers who can put out amazing stuff if you can keep them away from the agile/stakeholder circus.

Stars of the lid and Steve Roach have a lot of comparable stuff.