sweng

@sweng@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘Software Developer’ Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t have an expert, you should demand one. If I don’t have an electrician, I won’t ask my plumber to go read a book and come back to do that work. I would wait an get an electrician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘Software Developer’ Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the expectation that a developer can do it all is quite harmful. There are not many other disciplines where this is expected, and for good reason.

  Maybe it’s better to just admit you don’t know how to properly architect a solution rather than pretend you do and hcreate an unmaintainable mes. Maybe you shouldn’t pretend you know how to do front-end development instead of creating some monstrosity that no user actually uses due to bad UX. Maybe you shouldn’t pretend you understand security instead of introducing half a dozen sql injection vectors.

  Maybe it’s time to admit that the days of the solo developer are over. It may have worked when there was no internet, no security concerns, no concurrency requirements, etc. But we expect, and deserve, better nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the idea is that big-name men will show up to support women and work for equality, not to creep on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HashiCorp changes license from Mozilla Public License 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1 on some of their products.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably works well if you are an established company, but why would e.g. a startup pick licensing headaches over the competition? I imagine bigger companies would also rather just move to e.g. CDK or ARM if they don’t need multiple providers (at least our company started discussing this today).

  What kind of “custom licensing” do you anyway think a 5-person startup would get?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HashiCorp changes license from Mozilla Public License 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1 on some of their products.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest problem I see is that you can suddenly become non-compliant just because Hashicorp decides to release a new service (i.e.they start competing with you, rather than the other way). It can be a huge risk for companies.