Hugo Cruz

Software developer. Perpetually trying to understand why my perfect work always turns to crap one week after I finish it...

[Rick @RwoltX]

Coding has been a salvation for me.

I went to prison at 18 and spent nearly all my adult life there. Before getting out I began to learn to code. It was a wonderful escape. I would lose myself in some python before going back to my bunk for count time or ...

[A Small Fiction @ASmallFiction]

"The world seems broken," he said, "I want a spell that can fix it."

"Yeah, me too," the witch said.

"You can't help?"

"Magic can't. I recommend empathy."

[A Small Fiction @ASmallFiction]

His books had been a comfort.

He'd liked looking over his extensive stacks, knowing he'd never be lacking.

But then he'd started doing the math, & the stacks outnumbered the years.

What would be left unread?

They were less comforting now.

[Mario Fusco @mariofusco]

A clear symptom that your software is overengineered is that writing a simple test requires 200 lines of mocks and 3 lines of logic. And then you're unsure if your test actually verified anything or just injected the result.

If your unit tests look like this take a step back.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

And this is all you have to know about programming languages. And complaining in general

[Joe Pettersson @Joe8Bit]

I saw a tweet asking why sometimes when you unsubscribe from an email list it says it can ‘take a few days’. Buckle up, as I have a RIDICULOUS story about this happening in The Enterprise™️...

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

BREAKING: Microsoft has announced to members of its political action committee that it is suspending political contributions until fall, effective July 1. Employee pressure works!

[DEV Community @ThePracticalDev]

Not all technical problems can be solved by code alone because that debt goes beyond just the technical. It is organizational, institutional, political and, yes, often personal.

{ author: @remotesynth } #DEVCommunity
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[Pranay Pathole @PPathole]

Tech buzzwords explained:

AI- bunch of IF statements

Blockchain- database

Cloud- Somebody else’s computer

IoT- Internet of Toasters

Big data: Slightly too tedious for MS Excel.

Data science: MS Access.

Algorithm: Probably something about terrorists.

[kitze the 🐐 @thekitze]

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[kitze the 🐐 @thekitze]

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[Hugo Cruz @HugoMFCruz]

ICYMI: Anaplan CEO, Frank Calderoni spoke with Mad Money's Jim Cramer to talk about Anaplan's momentum and the future of #ConnectedPlanning https://t.co/ckuAzzc88z

[Eric Elliott @ericelliott_]

The best code is no code. Where there is no code, there are no bugs. No API to learn. No awkward UI. The best refactors are deletions.

[Writers' HQ @writers_hq]

Tag yourself, monsters.

[Martin Woodward @martinwoodward]

Ladies and gentlemen of DevOps. I present ‘The Deployer’.

[Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit]

(1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://t.co/n7djw1r9hY) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.

[Maria @misssdavid]

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[Gregory Koberger @gkoberger]

I've started turning programming puns into movie posters