Context: Jack Dorsey is giving a talk and Drew DeVault is organizing a protest against that
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/20/2025-01-20-FOSDEM-protest...
Here’s the talk description: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infu...
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niels_bom commented on Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 fosdem.org/2025/news/2025... · Posted by u/luismedel
Almost no one thinks about the modern miracle that are grocery stores. It wasn't that long ago that getting out-of-season produce was literally impossible.
Today, you just put up with inferior tomatoes in the winter and be annoyed about it.
The logistical complications of worldwide produce supply chains and your local supermarkets are really, really nuts.
I think most people don’t have access to supermarkets tho.
niels_bom commented on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases seangoedecke.com/large-es... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
> I believe that most engineers want to write good code
But the opinion what makes code good differ a lot between software developers. This exactly leads to many of the inconsistencies in the code.
And that’s why you talk about it and agree on stuff. I call that being a professional.
niels_bom commented on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases seangoedecke.com/large-es... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
> In that case, if the current way is undocumented and/or inconsistent, you make it better before or while adding in your new approach.
Sometimes, but oftentimes that would involve touching code that you don't need to touch in order to get the current ticket done, which in turn involves more QA effort.
The need is quite widely interpretable though.
I worked on a Drupal site once where somebody had put business logic and database querying inside of template files.
Just because you can implement something without touching any other part of the codebase doesn’t mean that’s a good decision.
niels_bom commented on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases seangoedecke.com/large-es... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
I am a solo dev for my company which is a semi profitable startup. Before I was hired the codebase was built by a hobbyist and remote workers. I was hired due to a language barrier with the remote staff. I barely have 4 years of experience so I really really dont have the time to fix shit. Currently I have to ship reckless without looking back. Thats upcoming tech companies for ya, will get worse with AI.
Expecting a developer with 4 YoE to be able to handle a messy legacy codebase by themselves is a suboptimal business decision I’d say.
I so much agree with this, I want to hug you.
All this encapsulation for sake of encapsulation, and interfaces everywhere even for implementations that the application is married to. I once heard a wise man say: most of these design pattern only add code! And we should be weary of adding code that does not add features. Sure in some cases it makes the code easier to understand/read/refactor. But in many cases it becomes a holy goal with very little actual benefits. Clean architecture being the epitome of this.
> data should be separated from actions that are being performed on that data
This view is shared by nearly all dev that prefer functional programming. I also consider this true. FP-langs help you to "keep 'm separated", and OOP-langs historically make this very hard.
If you build an app on top of a db, you biz logic will get intertwined in the queries and the some of the code that's close to those queries (i.e. model code). That code represents you business logic. Trying to write the biz logic separate from the db is --to me-- just a way to make your project go over budget and hurt your performance.
The biggest reasons for me to use the clean architecture are faster testing (most logic is in functional code) and most changes having impact in a small number of files only.
niels_bom commented on Deno 2 Commercial [video] youtube.com/watch?v=swXWU... · Posted by u/niels_bom
Quite a funny commercial imo. I do wonder if getting commercials for big software releases is gonna be a thing from now on.