Boopathi Rajaa

Dev working at @ZalandoTech.

Blog:

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

A modern day pest 🥸👇🏻

[Yana Welinder @yanabana]

We've all been there 😅

[Boopathi Rajaa @heisenbugger]

Keeping the waves at bay - new post on Substack - https://t.co/B3L9olRZej

[Boopathi Rajaa @heisenbugger]

Started a new Substack. Planning to write about things I find interesting. If you’re interested stop by and check it out.

https://t.co/2GILLzJHso

[Cory House @housecor]

A recipe for tech debt:

1. Create a giant pull request.

2. Say “It’s urgent, so I’m going to merge this now. We can fix any feedback later.”

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Generating absolute junk with AI just to make some $$ is happening at alarmingly fast pace. First sites/articles, then images and soon videos.

Internet search like Google becoming much more useless, even as they try and battle all this.

Trusted sources become more valuable.

[Andrea Giammarchi 🍥 @WebReflection]

NodeJS before Bun:
"it's impossible to disambiguate parsing goal for ESM vs CommonJS so we absolutely need the .mjs extension"

Bun lands

NodeJS after Bun:
https://t.co/WOAg4bcSAW

[Zalando Technology @ZalandoTech]

#GraphQL directives at #ZalandoTech by @heisenbugger. From defining precise authorization requirements to efficiently handling metadata, directives offer flexibility and control in the #API development process – https://t.co/ua2U2gUZ1j

[Boopathi Rajaa @heisenbugger]

New post: Understanding #GraphQL directives: Practical use cases at @ZalandoTech

https://t.co/hL9WVoKCUq

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

PlanningNeededFalse https://t.co/v0UuotakZy

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Ras✦Maus @RasmusNielsen]

Mac OS. But you’ll have to sort the trash.

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

if javascript tech was invented by germans:

Reagieren.js
Nächstes.js
Rückenwind
Typdrehbuch

[Cory House @housecor]

Poll: Imagine your team has to build a project with either types or tests. You can't have both.

Which would you pick?

[Ulises Gascón @kom_256]

🎉 Yeah, #nodejs 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files.

👉 Support for the NODE_OPTIONS environmental variable
👉 Custom paths
👉 Comments supported in .env files

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else." – Melinda Varian

[https://mastodon.social/@vitaut @vzverovich]

END JAVA

[Boopathi Rajaa @heisenbugger]

Just that it’s not an app is great - text selection, translation, linking, sharing, saving for later, secure, faster feedback, always latest deploy no legacy versions, small download - even the unoptimized web bundles are a few MBs vs best of the apps are 100s of MBs.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Quote tweet this with your spiciest web dev take

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

How did I not realize you can create email filters based on number of recipients on an email? What a smart hack. Thanks @AaronErickson