won’t be updating to Java 21

happy sad dev noises

If you consider the perspective of the serfs who built the pyramids, the gameplay is actually kinda lore-accurate.

In the ‘Medium’ difficulty category, OpenAI’s o4-mini-high model scored the highest at 53.5%.

This fits my observation of such models. o4-mini-high is able to help me with 80-90% of the problems at work. For the remaining problems, it would come up with a nonsensical solution and no matter how much I prompt it, it would tunnel-vision on that specific approach. It could never second guess itself and realise that its initial solution is completely off the mark, and try an entirely differently approach. That’s where I usually step in and do the work myself.

It still saves me time with the trivial stuff though.

I can’t say the same for the rest of the LLMs. They are simply no good at coding and just waste my time.

TLDR

Redis for caching, RabbitMQ for queues, Elasticsearch for search, and MongoDB for… reasons?

Postgres might be too good for its own good. It’s so capable that it makes most other databases seem unnecessary for 90% of applications.

Thanks for sharing. The built-in text search sounds helpful for the project I’m working on.

Personally, I have seen so many memes about exiting vim that by the time I got to use it for the first time, exiting it was a no-brainer.

For any newbies out there, the command is

:wq

I don’t get the punchline.

Have you tried turning it off and on?

Spaghetti is all messy and tangled up; spaghetti code is the same.

when the order of execution was obfuscated due to excessive jumps and GOTOs

That’s one way to make your code messy and thus achieve spaghetti code.

In general, when some code is very poorly written, it becomes spaghetti code.

No need for all that.

You’ve just got to see my code.

Any tips or pointers (unintentional pun) will be greatly appreciated!

IMO the most important thing when it comes to frameworks like this is state management.

Once you truly understood it / know how to do it properly, you are good to go.

P.S. My guess is that React got its name because it reacts to changes in state

P.P.S. this documentary on React provides insights on its history

No punchline…

The Software Craftsman by Sandro Mancuso

It’s less of technical stuff, but more about the attitude one can (and should) have in our profession.

IMO this interview with the author sums it up nicely.

It’s not just you. Perhaps it depends on the distro?

I just had to click around a little when setting up Ubuntu 22.04 and it’s done.

This is just a meme, but I find that communication is an underrated skill among software engineers.

Personally, I’m trying to get better at it.

Sounds like pain.

Thanks anyway.

FYI

1. branch protection is a thing
2. commit signing is a thing

I’m not sure what you are getting at.

Then saying that you have looked through and reviewed the code would be lying. And that is unprofessional.

Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.

It’s possible to see what others upvoted or downvoted?

Yeah, I get you.

In my case, I just pointed out (politely, I hope) that they were the one who called me, and not the other way round.

And thankfully, they left it at that.