Recently I worked on a personal project to help support the Linux distro I use as a daily driver, Manjaro. I set up a package mirror to allow users from the community to connect to my server and pull updates or new packages for install....
There is no mistaking that we are currently living in very strange times. We have a duty to our friends, colleagues and fellow Australians....
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
Out at Shine's various client sites, our teams often meet to discuss the pros and cons of various technical solutions. And in the past, there was one particular Shine manager who, if he was in attendance, would regularly pipe up and ask the question: what's the problem we're actually trying to solve?
tl;dr Frontend developers need to start building their own servers, for the sake of both their end-users and themselves. GraphQL is a great way to do it.
When I started out as a developer the internet was made of wood and owl feathers, held together with spit, pluck, gumption and whatever else it is that you kids today no longer seem to have (job security? the possibility of owning your own home? a habitable climate?). We had to chisel our code out of the rocks 26 hours a day, 10 days a week, wait two years for it to compile, and the only way of knowing if it worked was if the old wise woman of the company divined the error messages in the entrails of a junior developer. I am now that wise old woman, and so I must pass on the things I have learned.
From time to time, developers will come to my desk seeking advice. There's a problem they're trying to solve, they've got a couple of possible solutions, but they're not sure which one to choose. I have a standard approach for dealing with this.
