Dev Fu!

Opinionated software development.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Fuck jira.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Stop. Making. The. Team. Join. Zoom. Meetings. Just. To. Read. Text. Off. Of. A. Webpage. At. Them.

[antirez @antirez]

We have the new Array type merged into Redis! https://t.co/fmw4WIH4tI
If you have a use case or want to implement agents shared skills knowledge via ARGREP, this is the right moment to start :)

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

I have never seen anything of significance get done in an organization of >50 without an explicit owner. Not a single time. The toilets wouldn't even get flushed if there wasn't an employee handbook lightly reminding people to do it.

[Joe Masilotti @joemasilotti]

Just migrated every. single. one. of my projects to @hatchboxio. No more Render, no more Heroku, no more Fly.

I think I'm saving $1,500+ per year with this and a single Hetzner box.

[Nate McGrady @natemcgrady]

The hardest part of software used to be reviewing other people’s code

Now the hardest part of software engineering is reviewing your own code

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Fuck "work items"... Shame on you @gitlab

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.

It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways.

Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo...

Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.

So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design.

They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job.

Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before.

Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Rails devs, how do you clean up your db/migrations folder

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Your QA team could’ve been a comprehensive test suite.

[DHH @dhh]

ONCE is back! It's now a full-fledged application server for running dockerized web apps, like Campfire/Writebook/Fizzy or your own vibe-coded adventures. Zero-downtime upgrades, scheduled backups, and a gorgeous TUI with hyperdrive graphics. Enjoy! https://t.co/WaLSMms2fr

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Successful software development has no need for a “product team”.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Implementation details are not acceptance criteria.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

Have any of you seen my “this meeting is bullshit” pint glass? It’s been a rough morning.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

What's the point of all those backlog refinement meetings if you're still pulling unestimated tickets into the sprint?

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

If you’re screen sharing during a “standup” you’re doing it wrong.

[DHH @dhh]

"Rather than go through an extensive, artificial 12-month performance analysis process to statistically determine how someone’s doing at the end of that crucial first year, we blow all that abstract blurriness away with one simple clarifying question." https://t.co/mvexD4EYsF

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

@gitlab Thanks. Client is seeeriously busting my balls over this.

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

@gitlab https://t.co/H0R9HMA1nE

Tickets #87089 & #87176

[Dev Fu! @devfu]

@gitlab SLA says we should receive a response in ~4 business hours IIRC; issue has been open for 3 days & ticket has been open for ~27 hours.