When someone on the team is frequently asked to review PRs owing to their expertise or reviewing powers, they may experience pressure to be the gatekeepers. The pressure to know all the answers.
Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
When someone on the team is frequently asked to review PRs owing to their expertise or reviewing powers, they may experience pressure to be the gatekeepers. The pressure to know all the answers.
People often argued that open-source was a nice & structured way to create high-quality hobby software and that proprietary/patented (closed-source) software was the only way to make serious money.
ChatGPT is composed of LLM and control logic. LLM by itself is just a smart word spitter trained on large amounts of natural language. It’s the control logic that activates an LLM.
Writing code optimized for humans may come at the cost of performance, but wisdom has it that maintainable code turns out much more robust than convoluted or stylish code that only a few can understand.
For the unaware, Arch follows a strictly do-it-yourself philosophy. That means, you have to install, configure, and set it up all by yourself- no cheat codes and no GUIs.
Something interesting is coming. I’ve been working on an unorthodox method of learning developery stuff – languages, frameworks, libraries quickly and productively. The first step in that direction is to set up a video platform for content delivery and a basic companion website. Today morning I bought the domain anurock.dev. I’ve been using the “anurock” […]
We often hear this rather denigrating remark “jack of all trades, master of none.” Said like that, it sounds offensive and implies that being a specialist in one thing and one thing alone is a good thing.
A few weeks ago, I woke up to a terrible feeling. An emptiness, caused by the overuse of macOS at work and Ubuntu at home. I craved something different, something other than routine. So I once again donned my “distro hopper” hat in the pursuit of an ideal second operating system.
After banging my head multiple times in attempts to learn design patterns from various online resources I finally found one that taught me well.
It’s an endless debate. Like spaces vs. tabs. emacs vs. vim. Windows vs. Mac. Before joining Automattic, creating a merge commit was the only way I would close PRs.