textlog
…
profilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach. www.gruntsoft.comreplied to🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Microservices. Not really programming, as this is more on the architectural level. Microservices is a valid approach when you need to address massive scale. The thing is, I have seen it applied to things that could realistically serve its audience in a handful of modest servers with a less fashionable approach. It was done under the guise of simplification; each individual microservice was in fact very small. But this at the cost of absolute spaghetti architecture.
🥷profilefollowFather, getting older every day, technologist, enterprise architect @ work, like to explore tech. Like to keep it simple and work in the shell, write in vim, prefer Debian if I have the choice. Plays saxophone and clarinet. Enjoy motorcycle riding, photography, hiking. Christian.replied to🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
I assume this is not original at all at this point - but (extreme) DRY is not a good practice. My experience is that a bit of copying yourself and your colleagues in the code base often make maintenance of the code base easier.
🥷profilefollowSoftware engineer. [Reluctant] Salesforce dev. Salesforce’s biggest hater. stephenlf.devstephenlf.devImportant Thingsreplied to🥷profilefollowFather, getting older every day, technologist, enterprise architect @ work, like to explore tech. Like to keep it simple and work in the shell, write in vim, prefer Debian if I have the choice. Plays saxophone and clarinet. Enjoy motorcycle riding, photography, hiking. Christian.:
Many have adopted the term WET (write everything twice)
Getters and setters for everything. Certainly, if you want an object to be doing more than just getting and setting a value right now, get them in there! Planning to add functionality later without breaking code? Stop it! That should break code! If I'm consuming a library and have been using this setter method for 2 years, I don't want it to suddenly introduce brand new validation, caching, or logging behavior!
profilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.replied to😊profilefollow:
Are getters and setters on everything even considered a good practice? To me it screams junior developer who hasn’t yet fully understood encapsulation and abstraction — if you’re just exposing getters and setters as the interface then what is the class/module/etc providing beyond what a standard variable does…?
profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlywrote:
The pendulum has swung far in the direction of favouring machine generated content over that from actual people. I wonder when it will swing back?
What is the exact definition of an IDE? JetBrain's products are as good as ever, in my opinion, but people have definitely made non-IDEs into big, hulking behemoths with tons of plugins. If anything, maybe "just an editor" is dead?
I think they mean the transition that all IDE's are making towards an agentic interface, hiding the code completely as humans will not have to interact with it since the AI will be doing a better job at everything, even auditing it.
🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied toprofilefollowBelieve powerful technology and ease of use can be combined. 46elks founder, an SMS and telephony API for Europe based in Sweden, 15 years in the running.:
woo that was great, happy for him! I had an Amiga too :D remember all that era so this demo resonated a lot
join the communityorbrowse more notes