Software Development recap for week 36/2024

From 2/9/2024 to 8/9/2024

Articles #

• Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? 1534 comments in 3 discussions

• Any programming tool with graph based view like how obsidian note making tool has it with back links so that it would easy to figure out the lines and variables kept totally separately ? 1058 comments in 13 discussions

• Greppability is an underrated code metric 716 comments in 4 discussions

• Async Python is not faster (2020) 583 comments in 7 discussions

• Software Estimation Is Hard. Do It Anyway. 579 comments in 6 discussions

• I'm dumbfounded by the number of devs that don't test and stories of devs that don't test 576 comments in 2 discussions

• Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi 549 comments in 5 discussions

• "Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases" 530 comments in 6 discussions

• Dynamicland 497 comments in 9 discussions

• Don't defer Close() on writable files 448 comments in 7 discussions

• Generative AI Banned on StackOverflow 424 comments in 4 discussions

• Exercism has 2M users but no money in the bank 366 comments in 3 discussions

• How to convince your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt 361 comments in 3 discussions

• Swift is a more convenient Rust 357 comments in 3 discussions

• Explicit is better than implicit 336 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• Clojure 1.12.0 is released 136 comments in 3 discussions

• Spyder 6 IDE Released 62 comments in 1 discussion

• 🎉 Kotlin Multiplatform Ksoup 0.1.6 Released 🚀 52 comments in 7 discussions

• QEMU version 9.1.0 released 11 comments in 2 discussions

• Just released the latest version of String::Util 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Spyder 6.0 Released – The Scientific Python Development Environment 6 comments in 1 discussion

• BookCars 4.4 released - GitHub: Car Rental Platform with Mobile App 5 comments in 2 discussions

• TypeScript 5.6 Reaches Release Candidate Stage 3 comments in 1 discussion

• I just released nansql - A Go library for managing SQL Server connections and transactions with sqlx 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Ruby 3.3.5 was released 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Comfy, the 2D rust game engine, is now archived 264 comments in 5 discussions

• Bulletproof React has been updated for Next.js! 🎉🚀 225 comments in 14 discussions

• GitHub - damn/core: RPG Maker&Engine for Clojure. 221 comments in 2 discussions

• Using my C web server to host a blog (you can't crash it) 201 comments in 3 discussions

• Ergo: Actor-based Framework for creating event-driven architecture in Golang 189 comments in 8 discussions

• Just me showing some of my work on a Canvas Vector and Raster Graphics Engine 106 comments in 17 discussions

• Introducing Qustar: A New Way to Query SQL Databases 104 comments in 3 discussions

• DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound 95 comments in 5 discussions

• Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard 90 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Tiny JS – A Tiny JavaScript Library for Easy DOM Creation 88 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• [Scheme'22] Programming is (should be) fun! 118 comments in 3 discussions

• Stephen Wolfram Reflects on What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work? 39 comments in 1 discussion

• Haven't seen anyone do this kind of tutorial much yet so I went ahead to do it 33 comments in 1 discussion

• C++ Modules in 2 minutes 30 comments in 1 discussion

• Lex Fridman interviews Pieter Levels: PHP stack entrepreneur 29 comments in 1 discussion

• How I accidentally ran 650 database queries to load one page 28 comments in 1 discussion

• Primitive Obsession: An OOP Code Smell 19 comments in 1 discussion