Alexey Alekhin retweeted
oh come on. You think your grandma wants to make her own app? Much less maintain it.
Everyone neglects the mental energy it takes to even *think* of what it is exactly you want.
The entire principle of apps relies on some faith that designers; and the collective feedback of their users, can come up with a workflow or design paradigm that is *better* than what you; an individual could come up with.
This is true for 99% of cases.
I’d be floored if even 1% of global users want bespoke applications for uber-specific needs. Not saying it’s useless; but it’s so far away from what average users want.
Alexey Alekhin retweeted
I consider myself a "just in time" developer.
Like I have no idea how to work with sqlite databases in Python. At least not without an ORM. By the end of the day I will.
Let me tell you the secret of how I do that...
I read docs and play with code until it works. 🤫
It would be nice, but I really doubt it. If we were moving slower, maybe. But at current pace we barely take time to "refactor" our engineering practices. And that's when building better abstractions happens
The “AI generated code” era will quickly lead us to the “statically typed composable abstractions” era. And it’s gonna be Effect Oriented.
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It's official! Metals 1.0.0 is out! 🦖
- multiple workspace folders
- Java hover support
- running specified scalafix rules
- clean-all command
- better support for Scala CLI
Try it out with VS Code, Vim, Emacs and Sublime!
scalameta.org/metals/blog/20…
Alexey Alekhin retweeted
Build tools generate huge amounts of hate from developers. Which is strange, given our tolerance for misery and pain elsewhere. Possibly it's the underlying complexity, combined with the fact they are never an end in themselves. We're always trying to get on with something else. – at Monkstown, Northern Ireland
Alexey Alekhin retweeted
Interesting thread about GPT3 creating SPARQL queries from natural language for wikidata or dbpedia
Alexey Alekhin retweeted
If you're curious what the Scala Center is up to, you can always check this page for the current quarterly roadmap.
scala.epfl.ch/projects.html
Alexey Alekhin retweeted
Stay on the same page with everyone at ACT2022
Sign up on statebox.tv/act2022 and start 👀 ✍️
Alexey Alekhin retweeted
For those who don’t know, Chris makes a delightful podcast about Scala tooling. If podcasts and Scala are your thing, you should definitely listen to this, so many interesting stories from people in the community!
Was pretty happy to get this email today. For being a pretty niche topic of Scala tooling, it's great to see people interested in this. So thanks for listening!
ALT A celebratory image with fireworks in the background and the Tooling Talks logo in the middle with a congratulations from buzzsprout message in the middle for getting 5000 podcast downloads.
Going live on Twitch with a keyboard build! Today finishing up the Saturn60 + Boardwalk PCB build: twitch.tv/laughedelic
Going live on Twitch! Modding Boardwalk PCB with Millmax hotswap sockets #keyboard
twitch.tv/laughedelic
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I am planning to start building a keyboard later today (Saturn60 + Boardwalk PCB) and will try to set up a stream: twitch.tv/laughedelic. No strong commitment or schedule, so just follow me if you want to get a notification.
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Alexey Alekhin retweeted
Compiler error messages are generally so bad that beginners would rather just run the program anyway and see where it crashes. This is why dynamic languages have such traction.
Instead we should be helping people write programs that are correct by construction.
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This piece about keycap designs copycats is not bad. I appreciate that they interviewed a few of the prominent community designers.
theverge.com/22905351/mechan…
