Development Experience(s)

A colleague of mine recently took the initiative to run an one-off book club wherein he invited our team to read Shape Up and then discuss it. Setting a hard deadline for when to finish the book was super useful and - although the discussion hasn't taken place at the time I'm writing this - I made sure to highlight and write down notes as I slowly completed the book. In summary, I think it's a book worth reading, as is The Mom Test  if you're doing any kind of product research. Hell, as I don't have a lot of notes for that one, here's some bonus content: In-line super-brief review of The Mom Test We risk biasing people by asking heavy-handed questions like “do you think it’s a good idea“. “It’s not anyone else’s responsibility to show us the truth. It is our responsibility to find it. We do that by asking good questions.“ “Doing it wrong is worse than doing it doing nothing at all. When you know you’re clueless, you tend to be careful. But collecting a fist ful

Bronies rejoice! You can now write high-performance application in fashion! Ponylang offers an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language that just might be exciting enough to steal you away from Java, C# ... or perhaps even from Go! Let's jump straight in! First we whip-up a virtual machine in Azure to run stuff on, as we're going to do this coding on our gaming machine, and we don't want any coding stuff on our gaming machine ...  Then, we connect to our machine through Windows Terminal and SSH: ssh -i ~/Downloads/*.pem develop@IP_ADDRESS We  follow this guide to update the system and install docker. Then we  develop this remotely using Visual Studio Code Remote Development ! w00t, there are even some extensions available! Alright, we're up to speed! Unfortunately, we spent way too much time trying to build CMake from source so that we could build Ponylang from source until we got smart enough to just docke