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I don’t have any good resources to share. But what I do is to enable error notifications for all my systems. If there is a unhandled exception, I get an e-mail and slack notification (this includes forwarding errors from the front-end). That and to log any situation in the code that should not be reached.

This works fairly good for errors, for misbehaviour or to spot missing opportunities it is blind though.

All of the sudden I got non-spam messages from my shout-box, turns out someone posted my article here =) Thanks OP!

We have this culture at work where people actually takes time to read and feedback on your blog posts (you post it in the chat and at least a few picks it up). This helps a lot, getting (somewhat) honest feedback. I also use LLM for spotting grammar and spelling mistakes, and have started to use it to find reasoning flaws, which is does pretty good.

Outside of colleagues and machines, I find it quite hard to get feedback. I have a shot-box and my email on ever page, asking for comments, but rarely receive any. Maybe it is just that I don't have enough readers? =)

> Now most people don't write code.

I use LLM daily to write code for and "with" me, I also write code without LLM. Most people I come across mix it up. A few do it all by hand, and equally few all by LLM I would say. Is that just in my corner of the world?

Not related to the post itself.

But oh my, I visited the index page, that is a provocative mouse-cursor effect! I kind of like it!

I have had fun building a small test-framework in Gleam recently.

https://github.com/eliasson/garanti/

Just this friday I wrote an article that took a look under the hood.

https://markuseliasson.se/article/under-the-hood-of-a-gleam-...

Yes. And (too) many people focus on the effort, or the LOC produced. Completely ignoring the value the thing produced actually brings.

This reader of yours sounds interesting! Is it public?

Haha, clever!

I really enjoyed the documentary, and it certainly made me want to revisit Clojure!

I agree! I have kept an eye on Elm for many years, I think the simplicity and architecture is great, but the language itself never clicked for me.

Then I was made aware of Lustre[1], an Elm inspired web framework in Gleam. I have done two small projects in it now and I really enjoy working with both Lustre and Gleam.

[1] https://github.com/lustre-labs/lustre

I have started working on a standalone, self-hosted, service for an album club (music, that is).

Members takes turn pitching one album per week. Support comments and a handful of emoji-based reactions.

Integration with Spotify for easy pitching and playing (by links only, users are not required to have a Spotify account).

Plan is to keep the clubs fairly small and invite only.

Building it in Gleam which is a lot of fun!

Wait. What? Was that the case? Young me never realised that! =)

What is even more sad is that not even Swedish regions buy Scania or Volvo busses. Where I live the region just replaced all local busses with BYD.

I used to log my weight lifting in an app but I found it really distracting and time consuming so I gave up. For the last few weeks I have been bringing a small notebook and doing my logging by pen and paper instead. I find it much more relaxing and I only use it to check what weights I used last time, so I don't really miss anything.

Pen and paper is severely underrated today.

Whitesmiths, if I remember correctly was used in Symbian C++. I remember I found it quite odd (as most things in Symbian) when I started using it. But, it grew on me and I actually thought it improved the readability.

I have never thought about that!

Even if the last thing going through my head before sleep is related to programming (which is quite often the case), I cannot remember having dreamed of computers, ever.

> MongoDB operates in the space as a leader in non-relational database solutions, managing data formats across text, video, and more to support businesses. This sounds complex, but it really just involves storing and using company data in a secure, useful, and organized way for analysis and improved customer experiences.

This made me laugh =)

Does anyone know of any good presentations about the Zed architecture and internals around?

I know that they have some recordings from their coding session, but I am looking for something more overall.

It is. Every now and then when we have guests at home we bring out the board and it is an immediate success. Age does not seem to matter, I have played with people between 10 to 80 years old everyone gets the mechanics within a few minutes.

Highly recommended!

I am not a fan of comparing bad software with erosion or organic decay. It's feels like avoiding responsibility. Software is software, it is made worse by people, nothing else.

Ditto. This was a really nice read!

Wow, this is astonishing!

Absolutely agree. I just finished a project were where users can design / construct solutions in a specific domain in either 2D or 3D, with support for exporting CAD and STP.

The user works with rich domain objects that limit the possibilities to what actually works or is practice; much like a game level builder. This allows non-experts to design solutions in this particular domain, which of course is great for business / sales.

Apparently ID3 included some strange frames such as the Popularimeter (POPM) for storing emails and ratings! lawik goes through some om them in this post which I found entertaining.

https://underjord.io/id3-specification-and-speculation.html

Thank you for building an writing about it, I have enjoyed reading about your progress over the years!

Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy reading these types of articles.

I was a bit surprised to see Perforce being used (I'm not a game developer), I have not come across it since the early 2000s. From what I recall it was very good dealing with merges.

Antirez (redis creator) has written a good post [1] detailing his thoughts on code comments where he identifies nine type of comments used in Redis.

What surprised me was the use of "guide comments" which most people dismiss as too trivial. I agree with Antirez conclusion that they are valuable to help the reader acknowledge their understanding of the code.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/124

I have tried to organize album clubs where you take turns suggesting an album per week among a group of friends. I think this is a great way to discover music.

Unfortunately after about a year people lost interest and the club self died. I been trying to find similar things online but it appears that album clubs are not a thing?