I went camping by myself at Shenandoah National Park Tuesday. I’ve been on lockdown with the family since March, and despite 1 summer trip to a river at a campground where we had a nice cabin, I’ve been going crazy staying inside all the time. As an extrovert, the lack of human contact has been hard, and going on my OneWheel with others and myself outside helps, but is often quite short. So I figured a longer time away from the house, in the wilderness away from tech would help.
This article has been making the rounds on Twitter & LinkedIn, inciting and resonating with people. Either “I completely disagree with this guy! 🤬” or “YES, this guy gets it! 🙏🏼”. I’m… both.
http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html
He invokes both my 20’s-Jesse-thinks-he-knows-everything-and-must-own-this-wrongness and my 40’s wistfulness at simpler tooling. Let’s tackle both.
(more…)Stripe pulled a Gartner 2 years ago and did a survey of the C-suite around the world: what are devs doing that works and does not work. Its main point is while executives think getting more developers is the most important thing, in actuality their data showed how developers are utilized is the #1 thing executives should do instead.
(more…)I managed to get Hypatia, an Elm and PureScript like typed Functional Programming language that compiles to Lua, running in Roblox. Roblox is a 3D game engine that has a ton of already built games and editor where games are built in Lua. My kids spend way too much time and our money in it. I couldn’t get Amulet, another similar language, too compile, but Hypatia “spoke to me” more. Advent of Code 2020 this year taught me dealing with no types and race conditions is painful. I really wanted to explore what other language options there are that compile to Lua.
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