Links tagged with “development”
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astral-sh/uv: An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.
Sounds good. Replacement for pip, pip-tools and virtualenv, with plans to replace more like pipx and pyenv. (via @frabcus@mastodon.social)
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Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
I’ve been tinkering with Nova and I liked this detailed write-up of trying out other text editors.
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker
On AI’s effect on programming, but also good just on enjoying writing code. (via everyone)
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Cramming ‘Papers, Please’ Onto Phones | Development Logs by Lucas Pope
I’ve never played it but this was still an interesting read about converting a one-year-old desktop game to work on phones.
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My Inky Dashboard - Matthew Somerville
I didn’t know you could get colour e-ink screens, and this project looks nice and do-able.
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Starship
A command line prompt that looks nice and displays useful info when useful.
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JavaScript Systems Music
“Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno.” Step-by-step examples, really nicely explained.
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So, about this Googler’s manifesto. – Yonatan Zunger – Medium
Aside from the sense about that Googler’s document, this is good on what being a high-level engineer means. Confirms for me that, really, I’m a hobbyist.
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Software Engineering for Industry by softengindustry
Mostly for the nice way of handling an online reading group - a Twitter account, a Slack channel, and a GitHub repository for documents, suggested reading, etc. (via @tomstuart)
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code like you don’t have the time (tecznotes)
Some good stuff about how to run, maintain and work on projects when the time available is intermittent. I think the bit at the end about “stick to a language’s standard library wherever possible” is important, difficult and perhaps rarely considered.
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August 2015 Update - A week with Michael (Citybound Devblog)
I’m still enjoying these updates, and this is quite a technical one. (Writing a SimCity-style game in JavaScript…)
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philgyford’s Open Source Report Card
Analyses your GitHub activity and tries to determine things about how you work and what you do. Not perfect — if I really am “one of the top 20% most active Python users” I’m concerned for Python — but interesting and nicely done. (via @pkqk)
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On Being A Senior Engineer
A really good read. Could also be called “How to be a mature person to work with.” Or just “How to be a grown-up.”
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Skala Preview, a Mac app by Bjango
Quite magic Mac and iOS app for previewing graphics on iOS devices. Live updates as you change things in Photoshop.
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Realm Crafter
Makes MMORPG style games.
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JPMorgan plans Europe HQ in Canary Wharf - International Herald Tribune
Yay, they’ve ditched plans for their massive HQ on London Wall, which would have destroyed some of the public highwalks. (Three weeks old.)
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BBC News | England | London | Smithfield market plans refused
A couple of weeks old. Phew. I’m not against redevelopment if it’s not going to be more glass offices and same-old shops.
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CVSTrac - A Web-Based Bug And Patch-Set Tracking System For CVS
Original CVS-based version of the aforementioned Subversion-based Trac.
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The Trac Project - Trac
Python-based bug-tracking wiki thing that uses Subversion and sounds good which I don’t need now but will forget the name of when I need it if I don’t link to it now.
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Jeffrey Veen: Making A Better Open Source CMS
Moan, moan, moan. But in a good way.
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SCPlugin
Mac OS X Finder plugin providing an interface to Subversion (and one day, CVS). In case I ever need it.
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The Daily Chump Bot
Create a weblog automatically from URLs and comments posted to an IRC channel. Handy (if I used IRC).
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Basecamp: Online project management tool from 37signals
Looks lovely. Maybe I need more projects.