Recommend a DEV post worth reading

I really want to boost this one:

What it's like working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

John Pham ・ 4 min read

#career

It was posted the other day, and is a really fun read.

There's a ton of buzz around what it's like working at big tech companies but not much on gems such as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This gets to the heart of it.

I am going to do a shameless plug here. I hope no one minds, but this is my first post on dev so I am excited and I think it is worth your time :)

How Testing Speeds Up My Workflow

Sam Ringleman ・ 7 min read

#testing #laravel #lumen #php

I absolutely love this one. A lot of (not so) beginners in Rails mindlessly rely on Active Record queries without thinking of what's actually happening on a DB level behind those. This is a very important concept and I think Rails Guides should have a dedicated section about this, somewhere near the AR part.

Preventing Useless Database Hits

Molly Struve ・ 5 min read

#beginners #rails #ruby #performance

I like this one:

The State Of PHP Today

SyntaxSeed (Sherri W) ・ 5 min read

#php #webdev #languages

Mostly because it debunks some of the myths.

A couple relatively recent posts that seemed to fly under the general radar a bit:

@samosborn 's look at Giorgio Agamben's theories of law and social belonging in the context of communities defined as application users is utterly delightful

States of Exception and how we conceptualize humans in code

Sam Osborn ・ 6 min read

#discuss #career #philosophy

And here's a tour of CMake's house of horrors courtesy of @slurpsmadrips

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About CMake

Isabella Muerte ・ 12 min read

#cpp #cmake #buildsystems #opensource

I'm offering up a #solongagosunday pick, encouraging everyone to give Catherine a high five for her regex cheatsheet posted in January. I use regex all the time now, but it took me forever to get the hang of and her post was super helpful for me.

A regex cheatsheet for all those regex haters (and lovers) 👀

Catherine 👩🏻‍💻 ・ 4 min read

#javascript #beginners #programming #computerscience

Also, I would kick myself if I did not include an honorable mention of Emma Wedekind's regex cheatsheet from February, because it's pretty badass:

Regex Cheat Sheet

Emma Wedekind ✨ ・ 4 min read

#javascript

YUS!

I've limited myself to a few from each of the topics I like the most:

SQL things

The Day Everyone Turned Into Michael Johnson. A Lesson In F5.

Adam Barker ・ 4 min read

#sql #humor #microsoft #bob

Everything you need to know about (Relational) Databases

Lucas Olivera ・ 16 min read

#beginners #database #sql

Reading a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE Query Plan

Caleb Thompson ・ 5 min read

#databases #postgres #performance

AWS things

Event Handling in AWS using SNS, SQS, and Lambda

Frank Rosner ・ 11 min read

#aws #cloud #lambda #showdev

Everything You Need To Know About Networking On AWS

Graham Lyons ・ 5 min read

#aws #networking

Career things

What's The Difference Between A Senior And Lead Developer?

James Hickey ・ 3 min read

#career #webdev

Be a good mentor, not a dickhead

edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y ・ 5 min read

#career #motivation #softwaredevelopment #lifelessons

You don't need to know everything (but you should know something well)

rhymes ・ 3 min read

#discuss #softwaredevelopment

Here is one

12 Things Every Junior Developer Should Learn

Ben Halpern ・ 1 min read

#beginners #bestofdev

Love this one.
It helps always.

Regex Cheat Sheet

Emma Wedekind ✨ ・ 4 min read

#javascript