saasjosh

The tech industry is full of thought leaders trying to sell us their inventions.

Adam should have said that Tailwind is a good solution for him. Instead, he said that Tailwind is better than everything else and piggy-backed on famous people in tech to sell his idea. Which created a cult-like following.

Cults are bad for tech because it prevents out-of-the-box thinking.

I just start coding, then if it sucks, I throw away the code, and start from scratch. Github branches help with this.

When I start from scratch again, I usually do much better than the first time because you get to use all the experience from the previous iteration to make the current out better.

ExpressJS back-end + NextJS front-end is the most productive one for me.

I agree with this. Fast API provides a better developer experience because of how simple it is, and it's also more performant.

I recently watched a Rails World 2023 conference talk where Aaron Patterson was laughing hysterically and making jokes throughout.

Someone should check on him.

Read Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. You'll realize that anti-social behavior is quite old.

It could be that some people evolve to be anti-social so that society can progress, because such people typically spend more time on intellectual endeavors like inventing programming languages. I say typically because the underground man spent all his brain power to fuel his existential crisis instead of working for the advancement of the human race.

But some highly productive aren't anti-social. Take Jeff Bezos for example, who is incredibly charismatic but still invented the best online shopping experience in the world. Compare him to Elon Musk, who I can't listen to for more than 30 seconds because of how awkward he is. Sometimes I think he's trolling us by pretending to be awkward.

I believe anti-social behavior can and should be treated.

It doesn't matter because all tech stacks do the same thing. The only difference is how they organize code.

Same. It's been proven time and time again that hard problems can be solved by simply walking away while the brain keeps working on it in the background.

Why not? If a solution suddenly pops up while you're walking in the woods, you don't want to get paid for it?

Is the developer getting paid for the software he's building, or for the number of key-presses recorded on his keyboard?

That's why paying developers an hourly rate doesn't make sense.

If you like hourly rates so much, then become a manager at a factory, and leave the tech industry to people who are aware of knowledge work.

It's interesting how in 2024, managers still believe that building software is simply the act of pushing random buttons on a keyboard while moving a mouse.

If the developer stops typing for a minute, or a few hours in order to use his brain to think about a hard problem, then the developer doesn't deserve to get paid because he's not actively using his computer?

If you really want to track developer hours accurately, you need to invent a microchip that will be implanted in the developer's brain.

This chip will track all electrical activity related to building your software, so that you get the best bang for the hourly rate you're paying the developer.

Cool homepage but I don't even understand what this thing does.

I use Poetry because it makes my life easy and works just like Ruby's bundler and npm in Nodejs.

Some people hate it because they forced people to upgrade a while ago. It's childish to dismiss such an amazing tool because of one bad decision on the maintainers part.

Good for you but they're niche features that most developers will never use. I certainly won't.

That's why I switched to NextJS anyway. Django's implementing features voted by the board and companies who fund the project the most. They don't care about end users anymore.

Another boring release without much innovation. I wonder what's stopping Django from releasing more useful features like other frameworks are doing. Maybe the team is stuck in the past.

They've been trying to improve forms for a long time but it still sucks. I think they should just remove it at this point and let external packages solve the problem.

What do you mean?

In your prompt, instruct the llm to return responses as markdown then use a markdown parser to display the response in your ui. Code will automatically be formatted.

It's not as straightforward as something like Insomnia because you have to write a script that will open a browser and pull the tokens from there.

How do you deal with oauth2 with curl?

I switched to Insomnia a while ago because it's less bloated.

I contributed features and bug fixes to popular open source projects but when I mention this to recruiters or during the technical interview, the interviewer doesn't seem to be interested in those.

I once contributed a feature to a project and then applied to a position at the company who maintains the project itself but even then, it didn't seem to matter.

They were more interested in what school I studied at, what other companies I worked for and how long, and how low of a salary I was willing to accept.