Manish Vachharajani

Entrepreneur and Software Zealot. CTO at @githedgehog.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

Web #developers have been working with declarative specifications (HTML, CSS) for quite some time. #DevOps can learn some things from how web evolved from static #html to #php to things like #reactjs. #javascript https://t.co/waXR4iiyIq

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@ChShersh The problem is one of abstraction. The callee's exceptional case is the caller's simple error. As a library writer you cannot know what is exceptional and what is ordinary for the caller.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

Installing @ubuntu 24 on a mini PC and true to form, WiFi config hangs setup, even though the connection was successful. Settings->System->Remote Desktop hangs the settings app. Classic Linux Desktop. Much better than 10 years ago, still can't get the basics right.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@martin_casado Definitely interested!

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As I set up my new Mac, I do not understand why so much software makes me download an installer that then downloads the actual software to install. Why not bundle the two together?

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@thdxr The language.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@rakyll I don't think AI is going to replace the interesting parts of SWE (yet). I use AI daily. It handles some of the tedious parts of programming. It cannot write interesting code, and I think making it do so is a hard problem, despite the hype to the contrary.

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@Swizec I'll say it again. I am amazed that there are devs with the patience and discipline to build large systems in purely dynamically typed languages. Seems like insanity to me.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@the_sttts @kubernetesio No true abstraction for k8s itself. I should be able to create a namespace such that in that namespace it looks like a private k8s cluster as far as CRDs, permissions, etc.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@ibuildthecloud At some point we all mature to the stage of just wanting to get things done.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@ibuildthecloud Things get complicated when they are used in real life to solve real problems. Let's see how Deno looks when its adoption is as far reaching as Node.js. On the bright side, I don't see them moving to C++.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@housecor Certainly as many quality checks as practical should be moved before merge. As the team scales though, the integration tests will inevitably take too long, and you cannot serialize all merges if you want any merge velocity.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@ibuildthecloud Not everyone is ready for the power of emacs ;)

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@AdamRackis The dev tools space is hard. Adoption is hard, revenue is even harder.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

I've been using @cursor_ai to solve the 2024 Advent of Code in Rust to learn the language and some of the AI's autocompletes are creepily good. I had a simple bit compare and it auto-completed the error message as "loop detected" when it doesn't seem to me at all obvious that that is what the check does.

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@ChShersh Plus, devs know where the bodies are buried. Good QA sometimes exercises code in unexpected ways, but there is nothing like knowing where the complexity is.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@housecor So what about backend changes that can corrupt data? Where/how do you perform system-level testing for those things without some kind of staging environment? Unit tests and such can only go so far.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@housecor @devanfarrell_ Devs are rewarded for shipping code on time because that is easy to measure. Bugs and their impact are harder to quantify. If devs think QA will stop major issues, the incentive is to merge. Later, business pressure forces QA to yield and a lower quality product is shipped.

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@housecor Also don't forget the finger pointing when things don't ship on time.

[Manish Vachharajani @mvachhar]

@ibuildthecloud Once you realize you really care about reliable software with the least pain, the rational choices get pretty narrow.

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@ChShersh The gains are still real though.