Lukas Eder, creator of jOOQ and a bit of a SQL wizard. Definitely upped my SQL reading things he's either written or retweeted. As a Hibernate refugee, jOOQ is a godsend.
Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
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Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
My introduction to the world of professional software development was meeting one of the idols and hanging out with him for two days before realizing who he was. We've kept in touch since then and I now consider him one of my best friends. I agree about putting people on pedestals, and my own experiences speak to that. The person I once saw in a very idealized way I now see as fully a person, complete with faults and…
> I would argue that there are no "masters" - or rather, that there are very few of them, and those that I might consider such are "just people" too. Mastery does not obviate humanity. The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess.
>The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess.
Odd choice of words, wouldn't it make more sense to switch the meaning of 'talented' and 'gifted'? A 'gift' is something you receive without sacrifice, while a 'talent' needs to be honed.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#113A really big issue in simplicity and modesty.
Engineers are supposed to simplify via their expertise and produce something is consistent, elegant and easy to use and maybe even beautiful. That's the achievement, taking something clearly complex and 'taming' it.
There is a ugly trend towards gratuitous complexity. Some seem to revel in it. Is it because of signalling, lack of expertise or hidden fears about becoming redundant and making work?
At least one of the folks mentioned here is responsible for producing by far the most user hostile pieces of software I have ever come upon.
Discourse seems to not only revel in complexity but celebrate it. The objective does not seem to simplify in any way but make everything as complex and convuluted as possible.
The only way to use it is via Docker so you need to know Docker which is itself not a friend of the simplicity line of thought. Then it needs a full dev environment with around 80 packages, 2 databases, around 150 gems most of which need to be compiled and can fail at any time with mysterious messages and while at building possibly the most important software in human history why not just throw in nodejs too. At the end of which I am sure many would have forgotten why they started this exercise in the first place.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#114C: Salvatore Sanfillipo (antirez) Python: Kenneth Reitz JS: TJ Hollowaychuck C++: John Carmack Ruby: Aaron Patterson, _why
@tenderlove does some revolutionary stuff. For example, one of his latest project has been to measure the weight his cats' poops.
https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/824322587379441664
Came for the tech, stayed for the puns and generally odd behavior.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I would argue that there are no "masters" - or rather, that there are very few of them, and those that I might consider such are "just people" too. Mastery does not obviate humanity. The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess.
>The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess. Odd choice of words, wouldn't it make more sense to switch the meaning of 'talented' and 'gifted'? A 'gift' is something you receive without sacrifice, while a 'talent' needs to be honed.
Talent is innate.
Skill is practiced.
If you're passionate enough about something that you happen to have a natural affinity for in order to hone your skills, I call that a gift.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#116Julia Evans : https://jvns.ca Rachel : https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ Jeff Atwood : https://blog.codinghorror.com/ Joel Spolsky : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Dan Luu : https://danluu.com/ patio11 : http://www.kalzumeus.com/
While he has many an interesting read on SEO and business related topics in the field of software, what programming related content from patio11 are you referring to?
There has been some meta-related such as salary negotiations for programmers, the importance of A/B testing etc.
Can't remember any code examples off the top of my head though.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's the main one I follow too, although I haven't kept up on his programming language progress (although I should get on that). He gives very interesting lectures though. I had the good fortune to see him give two in person at the Game Developer's Conference in 2008, and that was actually before I knew who he was and before Braid came out. He actually showed a tiny piece of Braid during the lecture, although it didn…
He did a couple of streams recently using his language to work on a new game. At the very least it will be C/C++ where you don't have to type () around if expressions. So there is that. :D
Cool, I'll definitely check those out. I am looking to start making video games again, although it seems like this is probably in too early of a state still, so I was planning on refreshing my knowledge of Unity. But it doesn't hurt to watch those streams, and I look forward to when it makes sense to do serious development in it.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#118Dr. Axel Rauschmayer : http://www.2ality.com/
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#119My current list:
* Armin Ronacher: Flask, Jinja2, click
* Jonathan Blow: game dev, designing a new low-level language called Jai (https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888)
* Michael Fogleman: extremely proficient Go developer; wrote a Minecraft clone in both Python and C, and a NES emulator in Go (https://github.com/fogleman)
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#120Troll picks:
Curtis Yarvin a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin)
Xah Lee (http://xahlee.org/)
Michael O'Church (https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/)
Bryan Edds (https://medium.com/@bryanedds)
CAT-V (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/)
Suckless (http://suckless.org/philosophy)