StealthyCoder

This post will touch on two subjects that I already talked about, Amara's Law and creativity thrives in structure. I will reiterate Amara's Law here though:

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

I have read many a times a post starting with “I switched from Python to Go and I love it.” It baffled me until now. I have a hypothesis about why this happened and also how Google spreads. It does not spread like a disease and infect, it spreads more like religion and ideas can spread.

There is a law called Amara's Law that states the following:

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

This ties in with the so called hype cycle. That cycle has five phases starting at inflated expectations through disillusionment arriving on the plateau of productivity. The thing to learn is how to skip all these phases and arrive at the end immediately. I hope I will give you some insight on how to approach this.

What forms of politics occur in coding? Well in particular I want to explain how teams can operate and be successful using different forms of government as the basis to form teams.

Our typical team will contain some software engineers, a team lead, some testers and a project manager.

Just a quick post that used to be about something only applicable to Java ecosystem. Nowadays it seems to be prevalent everywhere. What it is I am referring to, well we dubbed it “Downloading the internet”. It is all the dependencies and libraries and the dependencies and libraries of those dependencies and libraries ad nauseum when you are making an application that every developer seems to put in there.

This post is about something that is trending and me and a close friend of mine who were discussing this were both baffled by this trend. We simply don't get it. There was once the web in all it's glory in the 90s. It was only HTML. That was it. There was a markup language that showed you what needed to be put where. Then there was some styling but not a lot really.

You might think what will this post be about? Well it is inspired by a tool I used called terraform . What happened was we configured it a specific way and then it still did not work in one environment but it did in another environment. Same config file but different environments? It must be doing something else under the hood. What did we do to help? Crank up the log level to the max of course.

So in line with previous post, there is something to be said about thinking about the environment when developing any piece of software. Most of the time we all take for granted the nearly limitless amount of resources to our disposal. Memory, CPU cycles and so on. The thing is that all costs energy to use. Energy has to come from somewhere and in general is not good for the environment, not to mention the heat you produce.

So once in a while you feel like decluttering your life or maybe just in technical areas remove unneeded apps and libraries and clean up projects of unwanted cruft. When talking about the cloud I generally have the most experience with AWS.

In our lives we generally suck at communication or in active sense communicating our hopes, dreams, wishes, and desires to other human beings. This is because it is difficult to get communication right. Not to mention how to do it right with software.