Eleana

Software Engineer 🇬🇷🇬🇧 ✍️TDD advocate 🌞Curious about leadership, management, mentoring

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

This is hysterical. It’s not wrong. It just shows that driving an AI is a form of engineering that is not for the faint of heart.

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Google’s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow.

🎨Create with a smarter design agent: Describe a new business concept or app vision and see it take shape on an AI-native canvas.
⚡️ Iterate quickly: Stitch screens together into interactive prototypes and manage your brand with a portable design system.
🎤 Collaborate with voice: Use hands-free voice interactions to update layouts and explore new variations in real-time.

Try it now (Age 18+ only. Currently available in English and in countries where Gemini is supported.) → https://t.co/pmT9iHEpZa

[Bloomberg Technology @technology]

AI "is the biggest productivity advance in our lifetimes," says Bill Gates at #BloombergHouse in Davos

But he cautions that it means "the bad guys" can do more too https://t.co/BIYs16S8li

[HackerRank @hackerrank]

Everything's cool until the day Elon Musk buys
@StackOverflow and starts charging 8$ to see the solutions to a question

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

TDD does not take extra time. Writing tests _first_ is not overhead because they force you to think through the problem and partition it properly. You’d have to do that thinking anyway.

Testing after the fact IS overhead because you did all that thinking already.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Adobe makes $20B bet on a collaborative future with Figma acquisition https://t.co/AjL4Notl8k by @ron_miller

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

[Bloomberg @business]

BREAKING: Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as Meta's COO after a 14-year run that made her one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley https://t.co/yuGQiR3ocN

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I strongly believe that all managers in a technical area must be technically excellent.

Managers in software must write great software or it’s like being a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse!

[#AusOpen @AustralianOpen]

Rafa reigns again 🏆

#AusOpen • #AO2022

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Tonga's Hunga Tonga volcano just had one of the most violent volcano eruptions ever captured on satellite.

[Vercel @vercel]

Introducing Edge Functions on Vercel:

◆ No cold boots
◆ Globally deployed
◆ Built on standard Web APIs
◆ Middleware API designed to work with any framework
◆ SSR Streaming & React Server Components (alpha)
◆ Available today on all plans

https://t.co/OVP91Vztbh

[Vercel @vercel]

Next.js 12 is out

◆ Rust compiler: 3x faster HMR & 5x faster builds
◆ AVIF support: 20% smaller images
◆ Edge Functions runtime & Middleware (beta)
◆ SSR Streaming & React Server Components (alpha)
◆ Native ESM & URL imports (alpha)
◆ Bot-aware ISR

https://t.co/dMp1H1JtBd

[Vercel @vercel]

Let’s make the Web. Faster.

Join us October 26 for our Global Community Conference and see the future of Next.js.
https://t.co/5Ye1iKpKxL

[Eleana @pleionele]

https://t.co/ypGpuyD9Tu

[The Greek Analyst @GreekAnalyst]

Simply fantastic to see Greek tech veteran @UpstreamGlobal create a 12mo *paid* internship program for recent grads in software engineering.

Hope to see more 🇬🇷 companies follow this trend of creating good opportunities and upskilling the new generation. https://t.co/RekNnkAvLQ

[Eleana @pleionele]

Fanis Paraskevoudakis, a book to see buildings of Athens through his eyes: https://t.co/uu62MPjKVX

[Upstream @UpstreamGlobal]

«There’s a gap between the technical skills companies are seeking and those graduate developers possess. Our purpose is to bridge it,» says our CTO, Natalia Mila, about Start at Upstream in @iefimerida.
Apply: https://t.co/ipLF60zoRM
Read the article: https://t.co/Gh7KFP8AgZ

[Eleana @pleionele]

World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland https://t.co/Ati1nvE4O4

[Upstream @UpstreamGlobal]

Fresh out of university, looking for a job in #softwareengineering? Just... #StartatUpstream, our 12-month full #paidinternship program for #fullstack and #backend developers, including a 2 month state of the art training program.
Join us https://t.co/J23x4HbuMB
#graduateprogram