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What was your win this week?

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Reflecting on your week -- what's one thing you're proud of achieving?

Every win matters -- no matter the size 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Landing a new job!
  • Initiating a fresh project
  • Squashing a persistent bug
  • Satisfying a bubble tea craving 🧋

animated character drinking bubble tea

Have a good weekend!

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Jess Lee

I made my first PR in a very very long time (to a private repo, so don't go looking for it! haha).

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Ben Halpern

🎉

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adriens

So... back on the track to code something concrete uh ;-p

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Best Codes

Nice! :D

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adriens

As I'm currently recruiting for my team, I built an Assistant to help candidates get a preview, answers very early:

It works amazingly well, and it runs on top of LLAMA3:405B on Huggingface. It creates a lot of opportunities, so I'm currently writing a dedicated blog post about that... hopefully to be released next week as I should finalize it this week-end ;-p

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heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Edited

Excellent. What's LLAMA3:405B ? Huggingface ? You can post a blog's link here in responding to me. I can't watch video on youtube due to bandwidth fees.

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adriens
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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Right. Interesting.

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Darren

This looks cool. Interested to see the post..

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adriens
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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Eager to see results. It may be very interesting at all.

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adriens
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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Thanks.

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mlr

My win this week was hitting my goal of putting up three new articles for my newsletter. I covered topics about Lean, enterprise software, and data structures and algorithms on technical interviews.

Some of these ideas came out of my recent interactions at work, helping my teammates better understand how to develop our enterprise software.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Nice. Remarkable. What's Lean ?

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mlr • Edited

Great question! Lean is a methodology that emphasizes reducing waste across the development process. It comes from the Lean Manufacturing Process in the traditional manufacturing world, but many of its core philosophies have be translated over to software development.

If you're interested in some of those philosophies and how they apply to software development, specifically, this is the article I write about the focus and waste reduction parts of Lean: Heart of Software Engineering: Lean Software Development

Edit: Also, if you like the article, please feel free to subscribe at the bottom of the page. I'm aiming to get out a new article every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning with content targeting some key issues in software engineering and the overall job market in the industry.

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jason brown

Not a newb, more someone armed with just enough knowledge to be dangerous to themselves, heh. Been picking up rumblings of discontent with agile, be interested in your thoughts on how does lean compare?

Especially when it comes to managing complexity!

My context: In a newsroom situation where deadlines can be 24/7, we prefer not to be buried in the guts of git, peering into buckets of code vomit :D

For example, what got me here was an everlasting search for a publishing app simpler and way more reliable than eg the big [tech] four. Not just in the wake of the Great 2024 Outage, but just for general production use. If not Windows, then Linux - updates especially. I've tested everything from Publii to Patr, after early days in email lists and Blogger - a huge leap forward for remote communities that could, for the first time, reliably publish webpages via email. Slightly less rock-solid was the ex-MS desktop app that could publish to Blogger and -

"Just use WordPress!"
"Word press, yes
!_ And, if WordPress, why not Joomla?"_

Almost every web tech ^ ever.

Uh, no thanks both can be a nightmare for security reasons, updating add-ons. Also, complexity for non-tech* workers is off the roof. As in, it makes staff want to jump off a roof. Again, especially janky from low/no net locations.

Currently leaning towards good old SFTP again, honestly.

  • whispers * he said non-tech

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Good. I appreciated much answer. I have read your articles specifically related to job resumes and job titles. It was enlightening, beyond main concern of my question. Latter topic article is very useful at core. I wish to implement it my projects. I actually lead one in digital sustainability.

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mlr

Been picking up rumblings of discontent with agile, be interested in your thoughts on how does lean compare? Especially when it comes to managing complexity!

It's interesting to compare and contrast Agile and Lean. Agile is a methodology and, in many ways, so is Lean. What I've found, more often than not, is that organizations try to think about Agile and Lean as frameworks for product development; they think of them as ways to force developers to conform to a process. Neither of these methodologies are framework, nor process. (There are of course Lean manufacturing process and Lean Software Development frameworks, which are true process and frameworks for accomplishing product development and manufacturing, but these are a bit outside of scope.)

Where Agile and Lean really shine are when they are used as principles to back well-established product development frameworks, like Scrum. Scrum relies heavily on Agile ideals, like individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and Responding to change over following a plan. Likewise, Scrum draws on Lean principles, like focus and reduction of waste in all aspects of development. When combined in this way, Agile and Lean really lay a solid foundation for good product development principles, while still offering flexibility, since they are methodologies, not strict processes.

I could say a lot more on this topic (maybe another article :D ), but I'll keep it short here, since this is the comments sections. Thanks for asking the question!

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Good explanations.

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Thomas Bnt ☕

We finished the translation of the Astro docs. Yes, FINALLY! 🤩🙌🙌

Also published a new version for my Discord bot with adding logs

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Congratulations. Your bot, what's it used for ?

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Thanks you! Used for fight french swears and logs some events like join/leave member, swears, created an invitation... and more soon!

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Nice.

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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas

I finished refining WjDataView for data drilldown scenarios. See the live demo. The cool stuff shines when you have expanded a couple of rows.

This is a Svelte v5 component catered for humans to analyze data on-screen.

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Pawel Kadluczka

Published my weekly post despite camping where there is no internet.

What can Taylor Swift teach us about Software Engineering?

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Pretty comic. Nice.

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Pawel Kadluczka

Thanks!

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Alberto Cubeddu • Edited

I've got my first 30 unique cloners and therefore individuals using my app!

I want to bring AI to your fingertips, anywhere, anytime; the project is open-source, fully customisable and ready to use.

Give it a try: github.com/albertocubeddu/extensionOS

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

It means that you should have auto-responses to posts in social media. That's nice.

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Alberto Cubeddu

pre-release if you are keen to try: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/extension-os-your-ai-part/bahjnakiionbepnlbogdkojcehaeefnp?authuser=0&hl=en-AU

Bring Your Keys, or register and use Groq for FREE API Keys.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

I didn't use Google Chrome. I'll do my best.

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Eljay-Adobe

Found a mistake (bug) in my code, where I used marked_rect instead of mask_bounds. Oops!

Sounds too simple and ridiculous, I suppose. But it took me about 12 hours to find my mistake.

You should see the amount of print debugging I added to the code.

I know, you're probably thinking "print? why not use trace points?" The trace points really, really, really slow things down for this particular function. And they go stale so easy. Then it takes a long time to fix them all up so they're on the correct line again. Faster to add a print statement, and recompile, rerun, and quickly get to that operation in the program.

Or "why not use a break point, and step through the code?" I do that too. There are a lot of steps. And I want to be able to see previous state easily, which is what the print (as logging) does for me.

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Tyler Smith

I feel like I finally have my hands around mocking in Jest. I was excited and wrote a post about it, then in the process of writing the post I learned even more.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Well.

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Oscar

I replaced my installation of Ubuntu with Arch Linux!

(I use arch btw)

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

What's Arch Linux ? Why are you used it for ?

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Oscar

A very DIY installation of linux. See: archlinux.org/

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heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Edited

CCool. I see you can check recent packages updates.

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Best Codes

I made an AI voice assistant in Python, while learning Python, with the help of my AI voice assistant as I built it. 😂

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Bhaskar Ghale

I've been part of a team that hardly every shipped anything on time, and... it's very likely not brag-worthy, but this quarter we shipped almost everything on time.

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Thaísa Vieira

This week I submitted my CSS Art for the Frontend Challenge

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Karim Abdallah

I'm In The Top 21% In Mobile Applications At LinkedIn 🙌

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Kovid Batra

We have 50+ more mentees registered lats week for our connect 1:1 mentorship program and 10+ CTO's, VPEs got onboarded as our mentors.

In case anyone wants to book a session (it is 100% complimentary) - grocto.substack.com/p/get-me-a-mentor

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