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Not everything needs abstraction. FP (Functional Programming) has it's place. Sometimes a pure function is a beautiful thing to have. It's also ok to mix OOP and FP.

Main advantage is the full sized keyboard. If you do a lot of coding, it's just a better ride than "compressed" keyboards. 13" is a nice form factor, but I find the 14" X1 just has…

I've had one of these and it runs Ubuntu really well. Personally I actually prefer the IBM X1 Carbons, they have the nicest keyboard I've ever seen and a good keyboard is IMHO a mu…

In my opinion, you lose out where transferrable skills are concerned. You become a platform or product expert, which can effect your career in some ways. I've seen this in situatio…

This is purely my opinion from the perspective of a developer/engineer who has seen my solutions removed with little understanding for the engineering and people consequences in an…

Only if you have 1,000 apps being messed with by a monkey

I would argue that there are boundaries to this sort of behaviour though. There should be open discussion about these things.

Passive aggressive behaviour, which sounds very unprofessional. If his manager is enabling or ignoring this behaviour, I would wager there is some toxic culture in action here. Hav…

This is akin to Salesforce, Oracle and other certifications of their ilk.

https://vercel.com/docs/serverless-functions/introduction

I've been using https://vercel.com/ for a while now. It has built in gitops and a very simple deployment model. Works really well with custom domains and cost-wise it is great as i…

Another vote for distowatch. I go there from time to time when I get bored of Ubuntu :)

Rule number one, be honest. Rule number two, don't wait to have difficult conversations, do it as soon as something arises. Rule three, delegate organisation tasks to your team. I …

Where have others found, in person or online a mentor or mentors specifically for your role as an engineering manager?

https://zeit.co/ Supports Node.js, static and docker containers. Very easy to use with custom domains.

My extreme view is to just block. But a more measured approach is to ensure it is flagged as a paywalled item.

After taking lessons I just played along to tapes of my favourite artists. I would also recommend learning tablature.

Enablement means having choice. Choice means using open standards and not closed proprietary platforms. Often I see developers feeling trapped when they are unable to choose the be…

The best line of code is the line of code you don't write. The best gun is the gun you don't have. Less guns less gun violence, it's not rocket science!

Another vote for the XPS, I have a 9360 with bare metal Ubuntu. Works flawlessly and the screen is very nice.

Control what you can, look elsewhere for another job, then quit. If your company is unwilling to change, change your company, find another job. And priority one is your family!

There's an actual API documentation standard called Blueprint API with some tools for this. https://apiblueprint.org

Was that a parody of the parody?

These days you shouldn't use a monolithic architecture IMHO, you should consider creating services or microservices with Node.js to provide API's to a "headless" frontend. Dependin…

While I work with Node.js a lot, and love it, I have to say this is not a very even handed article. Feels like the team the writer was working on had some cultural issues around pa…