Why Patching Globals Is Harmful
Honestly, I'd never thought I'd be writing about this, but the matter of patching globals turned out to be one of those topics that a lot of engineers seem to misunderstand. Most of us don't do monkey-patching, and even fewer stay around those implementations long enough to witness their impact. All the more reason to talk about it. Throughout the next few thousand words, I will be referring to mo
YX problem | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
Software people are always all up in the XY problem: someone asks about how to do X when what they’re really trying to solve is Y. I find the YX problem much more frustrating: where software people decide that they want to answer question Y even though what someone asks is question X. I’ve seen a few different manifestations of this pattern: Respondent doesn’t know the answer to X, but does know t
GraphQL is for Backend Engineers | Apollo GraphQL Blog
Most articles explaining the benefits of GraphQL focus on advantages for the frontend: things like preventing overfetching, reducing round trips, and iterating faster. But GraphQL provides just as many advantages for backend developers, which is why I choose it by default for new APIs and why you should consider it, too. Improved communication The goal of building any API is to enable someone to u
What it was like working for GitLab
I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years. While I previously wrote about leaving GitLab to work on Inko, I never discussed what it was like working for GitLab between 2015 and 2021. There are two reasons for this: I was suffering from burnout, and didn't have the energy to revisit the last six years of my life (at that time)I w
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 - Infrequently Noted
The global device and network situation continues to evolve, and this series is an effort to provide an an up-to-date understanding for working web developers. So what's changed since last year? And how much HTML, CSS, and (particularly) JavaScript can a new project afford? The Budget, 2024 JavaScript-Heavy Markup-Heavy Calculate Your Own Situation Report Mobile Desktop Takeaways The Great Branch
The Open Source Sustainability Crisis
Let’s get the XKCD reference out of the way, shall we? Okay, now let’s talk about the Open Source sustainability crisis. The purpose of this post is to define terms. What is Open Source sustainability? Why do I say it is in crisis? My answers are that sustainability is when people are getting paid without jumping through hoops, and we’re in a crisis because people aren’t and they’re burning out. W
品質保証部門の陳腐化。そして陳腐化した品質保証は品質を悪化させる - 千里霧中
※品質保証のエンジニアである筆者が自省・戒めのために書いた記事になります 品質管理（Quality Control）、品質マネジメントは国内では製造業を中心に発展し、プロダクトの競争力向上に貢献してきました。 JTCと呼ばれる旧来からのメーカーでは、その実績・年功の蓄積に応じて、独立性を保った品質管理・品質保証部門が権威を獲得し、今でもソフトウェア開発に強い影響力を保持するようになっています。筆者は複数のメーカーを転職やコンサルで巡って来ましたが、例えば品質保証部門が承認しないとマイルストーンで開発がブロックされる、プロダクトがリリースできないといった権限を持つ体制が、今なお普遍的に見受けられます。 この品質保証部門が権力を持ち、品質ゲートの門番として振る舞う体制は、今であっても、ある面で恩恵を提供しています。例えば次のようなものです： 法規制対応、標準化対応、その他公的なガバナンス要求へ
Maybe Getting Rid of Your QA Team was Bad, Actually.
Over many years, “DevOps” practitioners applied Theory Of Constraints to our problems, ruthlessly optimizing our delivery pipelines and practices. Manual release management? Hell no, automate that. Deployment? Automate that too. Image management? 🔨 No thanks. Rolling back after we trebuchet a flaming dumpster into production? Automated. Whatever low value activity we could find in the process of
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
charity.wtf charity wtf's about technology, databases, startups, engineering management, and whiskey. Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thinking about being a manager. I really like engineering, but I feel like I’m just solving the same problems over and over
Goodbye, Node.js Buffer
The Buffer type has been the cornerstone for binary data handling in Node.js since the beginning. However, these days we have Uint8Array, which is a native JavaScript type and works cross-platform. While Buffer is an instance of Uint8Array, it introduces numerous methods that are not available in other JavaScript environments. Consequently, code leveraging Buffer-specific methods needs polyfilling
My thoughts on Svelte 5 as a full-time Svelte Developer for 3+ years
As a full-time Svelte user for three years, I've built a real-time collaborative website builder with 10 000+ users. My solo success wouldn't have been possible without Svelte, and here's my take on the latest sneak peek of Svelte 5. First and foremost, a big shoutout to the Svelte team and Rich Harris for their relentless dedication. I've been in love with Svelte for over three years, watching it
ソフトウェア開発の真の問題点は、コードを書くことではなく、問題の複雑さの管理にある - YAMDAS現更新履歴
www.oreilly.com オライリー・メディアのコンテンツ戦略部門のバイスプレジデントであるマイク・ルキダスの文章だが、彼が数週間前、「コードを書くことが問題なのではない。複雑さをコントロールすることが問題なのだ」というツイートを見かけた話から始まる。彼はこれに感心したようで、これから何度も引用すると思うので、誰のツイートか思い出せればいいのにと書いている（ご存じの方は彼にご一報を）。 件のツイートは、プログラミング言語の構文の詳細や API が持つ多くの関数を覚えることは重要じゃなくて、解決しようとしている問題の複雑さを理解し、管理することこそが重要だと言ってるわけですね。 これは皆、覚えがある話だろう。アプリケーションやツールの多くは、最初はシンプルである。しかも、それでやりたいことの80％、いやもしかしたら90％をやれている。でも、それじゃ十分ではないと、バージョン1.1でいく
Let's Talk About Open Source
Yesterday we announced that Codecov is now “Open Source”, and we messed up in two ways: We wrongly used the term Open Source; while unintentional, we should have known better We let our emotions get the best of trying to explain our position, rather than stepping back and addressing the problem I want to talk about both of these, how we made the mistake, why it’s important to us, and what we plan
The future of Terraform must be open
On August 10, 2023, HashiCorp announced that after ~9 years of Terraform being open source under the MPL v2 license, they were suddenly switching it to a non open source BSL v1.1 license. We believe the BSL license is a poison pill for Terraform which threatens the entire community and ecosystem, and in this blog post, we’ll introduce OpenTF, our plan for keeping Terraform open source—forever. Why
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
Published: August 4, 2023 Updated: October 27, 2023 Part 1: an intro about music, defaults, and bubbles Like a lot of people, there was a time when the only music I listened to was whatever was played on my local radio station. (A lot of people over 30 or so, anyway. If this doesn’t sound familiar to you yet, just stick with me for a minute here.) At the time, I was happy with that. It seemed like
Blogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM
Random musings on React, Redux, and more, by Redux maintainer Mark "acemarke" Erikson This is a post in the Blogged Answers series. Details on the painful experiences and hard-earned lessons I've learned migrating the Redux packages to ESM Table of Contents 🔗︎ Introduction Redux Packages Background Packages and Configurations Issue History Early Attempts Migrating to Vitest Initial Alpha Testing
ソフトウェアはなぜバージョンアップしなければならないのか - Qiita
はじめに 社内インフラの運用担当者にとってソフトウェアのバージョンアップは地味な割に大変な業務です。 特に社内のオンプレサーバで動いているようなソフトウェアの場合、バージョンアップに伴う諸々の調整をそのソフトウェアを利用している各部署と行う必要があります。 そんなときに「今は忙しいからバージョンアップを先送りしてほしい」「このバージョンはスキップしてもよいのでは？」なんて声が各部署から聞こえてきます。バージョンアップの価値を各部署に理解してもらうのは大変です。 この文章はそんな時になぜバージョンアップしなければならないのかを上司や各部署のマネージャに伝えるために書きます。 ソフトウェアの有効期限は2-5年 まず、第一に、ソフトウェアというものは無限に使えるわけではなく、一定の有効期限があり、それを過ぎると徐々に動かなくなってきます。俗にいう「何もしてないのに動かなくなった問題」です。 なぜ
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