stilgar [he/him]

IMO an engineer should be able to develop a complex system which an entire company could potentially be based upon.

A developer who isn’t an engineer would focus more on individual libraries, apps or tools that don’t necessarily require the mindset of an engineer to design and maintain.

This looks like a lot of fun to use, I loved the example from What If, so many units!

Only if it’s specified and documented as part of a contract with the user. If they’re relying on internal implementation details, well that’s a good lesson for them not too do that.

There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:

• The terminal can remember everything you ever did. Forgotten the command you wrote 2 months ago? You can do a search for it with a tool like fzfand run the exact same command again.
• Communicating with others. GUI programs require step by step instructions, often accompanied by screenshots while CLI may be copy/pasted.
• Combining programs together. There are a few different techniques for combining CLI programs to search/format output, use secrets without ever having them in the clipboard or on disk, monitor something frequently/constantly etc etc

So while I agree with you that there’s plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.

Thank fuck! I’m so sick of rebasing and merging Dependabot PRs.

This is a good way to realise that you don’t need a function for that use case.

No, you missed the homeless encampments, forest fires and car centric cities.

There’s no apt install utopia.

My proudest moment was getting a PR with typo fixes for PyPI docs merged 😂

Gradle is absolute rubbish, definitely the worst experience I’ve had with a build system. But Maven is also rubbish.

IMO a CLI should be the primary way of interacting with the build system (see e.g. Go, Rust, JS with NPM or Yarn, Python with Poetry) and manually editing the build file should be reserved for edge cases and extensions.

Great post! We solve far too many problems (many of them are very much in the nice-to-have category) with our systems at my work, the systems get huge and difficult to change or maintain. I’m on a constant campaign to stop people building things we don’t need, I’m definitely filling my senior role lol.

You fucking heathen! I only use !