Daniel Blasco Calzada

In my career, I’ve never seen any evidence suggesting a connection between formal degrees and being a good programmer. By “programmer,” I mean developer, engineer, or whatever term you use for people who create software. Whenever I see folks pushing this narrative—which is a thing in Spain—I am genuinely puzzled. I used to think that, as the discipline matured, a formal degree might eventually become recommendable in the distant future. But with the self-teaching possibilities introduced by LLMs, I’m incredibly skeptical. There will always be a market for exceptional courses and teachers, but I doubt universities, as we know them, will be the answer in the future.

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Read the takeaways from the conversation with Álvaro H. in episode #44 about using Angular, RxJS, Babylon.js, Rapier, and AnimeJS for video game development in the Web platform 👾🕹️

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Our Coder Ismael Ramon, Senior Frontend Engineer, always writes very useful articles. 🧐 This time he tells us in less than 5 minutes ⏳ how to leverage TypeScript with the i18next library so the usual t function doesn't just accept anything! Learn all about it here 😍👇 #SEATCODE #Coders #TypeScript #i18next

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What is a TypeScript Engineer? I keep seeing this pop up in recruitment posts, which means clients are asking for it...right? Has this replaced the FullStack Engineer, which, lets be honest, meant a NodeJS developer. That was back in the good old days when it was only NodeJS. Now we have Bun, Deno, Hono and more. Or perhaps its asking for a Javascript developer...whatever that means in todays world of a thousand js frameworks and evolving ES standards. Or are they actually asking for a Java developer, because someones used Gen AI along the way and it got confused between Java and Javascript (*shudders*) Are they seriously in need of a type system engineer, thats kinda niche. It's hard enough trying to explain what you do as a job to "normal" folk as it is, without this level of obfuscation. How would you even explain this when asked "What do you do?". Do kids nowadays needs to consider themselves experts in everything inside package.json to land a job? When will the industry move beyond this fixation on specific languages? I get it, it's an important consideration, but asking for Typescript Engineers...it's not going to help you find the devs you actually need.

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Sometimes when we think about technical debt, the immediate reaction is to want to stamp it out. Fix things, upgrade everything, refactor. Now. But sometimes you have to pause and ask: will an application gain value when we refactor it? Try flipping that question around: does a badly written app have enough value that it's worth refactoring? Maybe that's the question you need to ask.

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Bad Comments ❌ Too many comments are almost worse than no comments. They inflate the code and typically overwhelm the person working on it. Some examples of what a bad comment is... Nonlocal Info - Commenting about a bit of code that the comment is not near. Commented out code - This often remains in the software for no real reason and nobody dares to delete it because somebody at some point thought it might be needed. It bloats the code and is 'probably' never going to be used. Redundant or Misleading Comments - Usually done with a good intention at the time but the control might have changed over time and the comment is no longer serving its original purpose. . .delete them. There are many more to be honest, but these are some of the most common. I have added a link below in comments to a video showing some of the actual comments on the Simpsons Hit and Run game for the PlayStation - Hilarious this even went on at that level 😂 😂 if you can spare 2 minutes watch it.

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More projects are moving away from complicated build processes for their front-end assets and back to something simpler. https://lnkd.in/eHVrSWcE #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #FrontEnd #css

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Was playing around with the #Zed IDE from Zed Industries this evening. There's no Windows installer for it yet but you can compile it pretty easily. Yesterday I updated my #Rust toolchain, and with Visual Studio Community made sure the MSVC C++ build tools and Windows 11 SDK were installed. I let `cargo run` do its thing while I did other stuff, and when it eventually finished, it just launched without any build errors. Love that. Still early days though, it's not yet the most intuitive to use. I do like the docs as they are now, and also the familiar keybindings from VS Code. I wonder how easy a complete newcomer would find it though. The idea of built in #collaboration features for the IDE is great. I first saw this kind of feature many years ago in JetBrains #IntelliJ IDEA, where you could do things like viewing a colleague's session and diffing files against their local copy. I thought that was amazing! We've also seen it in recent years in Visual Studio Code and VS proper with #LiveShare. One thing these kinds of tools have issues with usually though is challenges within corporations - networking policies, proxies and firewalls, data privacy policies, etc. Having an ability to use an on-premise/local server for this would be nice too I think. As far as I understand, you can run a local collaboration version, but it's just a dev tool at the moment more than a product. The ability to follow collaborators is useful for #remotePairing or #mobProgramming. Channels with a side-by-side chat window, and note links to Markdown notes is nice. I haven't really used all the features fully, but I think it might support voice? Since COVID days I've wanted a way to combine something like Discord with Live Share or MS Teams, where you can enter a "room" with your colleagues/team, similar to being in an open office while working on-site, but now working remotely. Need a break, go over into the "coffee corner" virtual room and see what people in there are chatting or talking about - whether its collaborating on something, or just socializing. Need to have a quick team breakaway discussion, use another room/channel. Having AI as another "collaborator" in the IDE is of course nice. Interesting to see the support of multiple language model integrations too. I've recently been wanting to get back into the command line world as a primary environment, and like that it has built in vim emulation (yes... I'm finally wanting to figure out how to be a vim power user... maybe). Glad to see there's a #csharp extension, as well as an #asciidoc extension, think I might be testing those pretty soon :) Looking forward to not just playing around a bit, but trying it out on a proper project, to see how it performs. zed.dev https://lnkd.in/e5Shjx8P

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https://lnkd.in/ei3FCeZA Here is a blog post for my on-going rewrite of my Uni dissertation project. I was trying to implement an example of Type-Safe Builder Patterns https://lnkd.in/ebkEusU3

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🔥🔥🔥amazing software engineering posts from the past week🔥🔥🔥 Ryan Murphy rejection means only that: rejection. Keep going. https://lnkd.in/ecfy5tBV Tiger Abrodi consistently posting TypeScript knowledge bombs https://lnkd.in/ebeapvQ9 Taha Hussain are you fueling the micromanager in your life?? https://lnkd.in/eFtrhiHN Eric Roby please keep your processes simple! your success depends on it! https://lnkd.in/epk7Q_qJ Owain Lewis principles for a delegation: I needed this 2 years ago. https://lnkd.in/eNvt564u Pramoda Vyasarao master the basics https://lnkd.in/eMKTMesj Matt Watson new, "exciting" and complex tech excites only one person: the person who uses it to build. long term success needs tech that is boring, known and comes with a talent pool. https://lnkd.in/e8aK9aQt Austin Belcak above average results require above average effort. Go the extra mile - the road is never crowded. https://lnkd.in/edWQGDPH Francis Nayan take. action. today! https://lnkd.in/ej-HbcpJ Callie Buruchara 7 principles for giving feedback. it's easy to see that Callie is leading from experience! https://lnkd.in/e9XXnDyq

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ICYMI: Our very own, Tom Wheeler spoke at the Explore DDD Conference back in March, and his talk is now available to watch online! Check out the full video where he discusses how Temporal can help developers build more reliable and scalable applications. Watch here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g7ypmmva

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Frontend Developers, thoughts on Svelte? How does it compare to React? Is this a trend or can you see it becoming a leading JS framework? Keen to hear your thoughts. #Svelte #React #Frontend #technologies #javascript

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🚨 JavaScript Contractor Pay Rates 🚨 Over the last 2 weeks I've spoken to 80+ JavaScript Engineers, who are all contractors, and are all highly skilled and experienced with React. They have other skills of course, but their core skill is React/Typescript. Below is a scatter graph of what they are getting paid right now in a contract role. I did this a couple of years ago and I remember there was a huge variety of rates regardless of experience, what I can see from below is that rates have stabilised massively, and people are now getting paid pretty consistently dependant on their level. It's good to see the market has stabilised and that people are getting paid what they are worth. If you feel you are getting paid below market rates, reach out and we can see what other opportunities I have for you. Or if you are looking to ramp up contingent staff quickly, and need to know what you should be paying, reach out. #JavaScript #TypeScript #React #Contractors #Sydney

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Taking a break from the courses that I've been writing (and warming up for writing a Node.js course): https://lnkd.in/eApqU3ee

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