Cheap code reshapes what's worth building, but not equally. Personal tools and internal layers thrive because the hard problems are already solved. Customer-facing products still answer to distribution, trust, and compounding complexity.
I joined a company with a Kotlin backend I'd never touched. Instead of reaching for docs, I used GPT to explain, critique, and refactor my code. A rubber duck that talks back.
Kill the Newsletter allows users to create a unique email address for each newsletter and automatically generates an RSS feed associated with that address. This makes it easy to centralize newsletter subscriptions and receive them via an RSS reader.
Git's [includeIf] feature makes managing multiple configurations easy when adjusting settings like email address and signing key while working on different projects.
With the recent events at Twitter, I decided to stop using the social network and explore decentralized social media alternatives. I plan to use RSS to stay up-to-date on my favourite topics.
As engineers, we spend a lot of time writing. We must master that skill as much as code. This will help us collaborate and leverage our work within our teams or organizations.
By using the RAM disk on CircleCI, we can reduce the time for restoring the cache. In my current project, it has reduced the time to run the pipeline by 2 minutes.