Winter refuses to make way for the Spring and March in Southern Finland has been quite cold despite warm and rainy week which melted away some of the already scarce snow. So, skiing mainly on artificial snow and mountainbiking on icy paths which is nice. But this also leaves time to read what has happened on software development field. This month it’s about tools and working methods.
Issue 28: 17.3.2018
Tools of the trade
Must have extensions for VS Code (according to me)
tl;dr; Auto import, Beautif, Clipboard History, Git History, Code Runner, Docker, Material Icon Theme, Path Intellisense. (from @ThePracticalDev)
Reclaim your abandonware
Super cool post about how to get the abandoned mac Twitter client to support 280 character tweets by modifying its assembly. (from @b0rk)
Keep calm and code on: Productivity tools for developers
Suggestion of tools for developers for different tasks. I didn’t agree all of them so my suggestions are in brackets. tl;dr; 1. actiTIME (or toggl) 2. Cold Turkey (or other pomodoro) 3. Strict Workflow 4. Habitica 5. Oh My Zsh (or Bash-it) 6. The Silver Searcher 7. UltraEdit (or Atom, VS Code etc.) 8. Homebrew 9. GitHub Changelog Generator. (from @ThePracticalDev)
Git aliases
If you use Git command-line a lot, you will probably grow your own list of Git aliases sooner or later. After simple standard aliases (ci -> commit, co -> checkout) you might want to see some advanced tricks you may find useful.
CTFR
Get subdomains of an HTTPS website abusing Certificate Transparency logs. (from @KitPloit). Apparently also curl "https://crt.sh/?q=%.starbucks.com&output=json" -sS | jq .name_value | uniq | tee output works.
Front-end
Front-End Performance Checklist 2018
Unbiased and objective front-end performance checklist for 2018 — an overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. (from @igrigorik)
Working methdods
Tim Ottinger: what once was thought impossibility is now commonplace in software development
TDD, pairing, mobbing, evolutionary design, self organizing, lean startup, commenting code, interpreted languages, beta, noestimates. “You have to ask, what impossible thing is going to be done next? We change how we think, and new vistas open up.”
Branching Is Easy. So? Git-flow Is Not Agile.
I wrote this blog post ages ago and I still stand firmly behind it trunk-based development 4ever. (from @skamille)
Getting Things Done – A Programmer Productivity Guide
“Everybody has some sort of system—even not having a system and trying to remember everything is technically a system. I wanted to share mine because it seems to work pretty well.” (from @ThePracticalDev)
Herding cats is easy compared to managing developers (video)
A short and sharp 10 minute guide to managing developers by Dom Millar at NDC Conference Sydney 2017.
Something different
10 x weekend brunches in Helsinki
Il Birricifio, Ipi Kulmakuppila, Sandro, Gastro Café Kallio, Yes Yes Yes!, Loop, Moko Market, Sue Ellen, Paulig Kulma and Krog Roba. My addition to the list is Rupla. (from @VisitHelsinki)
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