Welcome to Issue #7 of The Codbix! This week: Habits of great software engineers, Decision Making at Netflix and How to get your brain to focus.
Welcome to Issue #8 of The Codbix! This week: building software is not coding, what is successfully blogging, codepen’s most hearted Pens, and I am a poem I am not software.
Links I Found When I am Coding
I am a poem I am not software
He encourages creators to embrace imperfection and creativity, seeing personal sites as “poems” that showcase the unique quirks and interests of their owners. Rather than following rigid templates or aiming to impress, Rendle believes personal websites should be memorable, even if they’re unconventional.
The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements
With all the articles about just how amazing all the developments in AI have been, there’s plenty of hand wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. They imagine all the business execs and product researchers will bypass most or all of their software developers and asking AI directly to build exactly what they think they want or need. As someone who’s spent 15 years creating software from the specs these folks create, I find it hard to take all the worrying seriously.
Is software getting worse?
Apps are slower than they used to be. And exponentially larger without a corresponding increase in value. At the very least, there are optimization opportunities in almost any modern app. We could make them faster, probably by orders of magnitude. We could remove code. We could write tiny, purpose-built libraries. We could find new ways to compress assets.
Top Pens of 2023 on CodePen
Codepen’s most hearted Pens of 2023.
Top Front-End Tools Of 2023
The 60 tools in this article span numerous categories, including JavaScript libraries and utilities, web frameworks, CSS generators, database tools, React components, CLI tools, and even ChatGPT and AI-based tools.
Links I Found When I am Wandering
WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal.
What successfully blogging means to me
Successful blogging means providing valuable knowledge to readers, conveying messages clearly and concisely, being helpful to readers, dedicating time to share knowledge, improving writing skills through reading, and addressing problems and questions in blog posts.
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