Scott Streit

It is CRAZY how much weaker OpenAI GPT-4o is at coding from the completions API than GPT-4. I'm not sure if this is the intended result, but very surprising nonetheless. The training recency is very evident, i.e. it knows about much more modern things, but the difference between its logical output is great with GPT-4 just thinking in a much more sophisticated fashion.

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These are great tips for an junior dev. Especially the suggestion to become the "go-to person" in a particular topic. It's a great way to become an elevated contributor on a team. https://lnkd.in/gqUZSn39

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Today, I am rebuilding API's that I coded into my no code builder. They are actively used custom integrations for clients. The integrations get around 3000 requests daily, with 55,000 ran so far. Nothing like seeing things work. Like magic #api #developer #nocode

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Developer downtime: don’t overwork your devs. It’s memorial weekend and I’m lazily sitting on my porch. My kids keep coming in and out of the house, but get stuck because the sliding door keeps coming off the rails and won’t open. Well, since I’ve got nothing else scheduled for the afternoon I investigate the issue. Turns out sliding doors have a bunch of adjustment screws. I adjust them till the door slides smooth. Left in the broken state my kids learned to hit top left side of the door before opening it. Bringing this back to work, I know customer success teams that have a cheat sheet of these maneuvers. Give devs space to observe, we naturally fix these issues.

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Kicking off the weekend by wrapping up my latest blog post on how to customize the Spring Boot banner with details from the pom.xml. This was a fun project for me. It's not common to see people customizing the Spring Boot banner, but it's a great way to add unique branding and include useful project information. Please check out my article, if this sounds interesting to you. #SpringBoot #Blog #Programing #SoftwareDevelopment #Java

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4 Things You Should Put in Your Daily Dev Log To harvest meaningful patterns from your dev log, you’ll need to capture the same things daily. I’ve been engineering software for 25 years, and I’ll share what I’ve routinely kept in mine. Your context is different, so your list will be also. Just make sure you capture the same things daily. Use this list as a skeleton to start from. It’s easier when you aren’t starting from a blank page! Pull Requests I keep track of every PR I submit, approve, or merge. Almost any work product I deliver or review flows through Git. My lists of PRs serve as a personal task-level kanban board of work in progress that I am connected to. These help me easily reconstruct a story of what I’ve done throughout the week. Personal Interactions I make note of every personal interaction I have, scheduled or otherwise. In addition to these notes, I keep a page for each person, and I link to that page from my daily notes. As I note patterns of interaction with a person, I’ll describe those patterns on their page. Over time I build a library of every person I’ve collaborated with and what we worked on together. Project Actions I keep a running narrative of the things I’m working on. I keep a section for each thing I’m working on. These might be at the product or story level - it just depends. Each time I hit a stopping point or interruption, I make a note of what I’ve been doing and what I plan to do next. Guess what I use to inform my daily standup updates? Perplexing Puzzles I make a note of everything that surprises me. These could be strange program behaviors, blockers, production issues - anything unexpected. As I review these periodically, I ask myself how I can use what I’ve learned to improve my mental models. Hopefully this list helps you get past the starting line. Do this faithfully for several months and see where it takes you!

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In other news today, Delta Lake UniForm is now Generally Available. No more data silos, interoperability FTW! UniForm allows you to use a single table format for your lakehouse, getting the top-of-the-line performance and features of Databricks and Delta Lake, but being able to access the data using *any* engine that supports *any* of the common lakehouse formats Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi.

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Trunk Based Development > GitFlow Long-lived, non-trunk branches are synonymous with merge conflicts, bugs, and often a poor velocity. Merge early, merge often.

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Sup fam!! Relationships are everything!! They're the core of your engineering platform. Your team's design docs, software patterns, pull requests, and GitOps workflows all need to pass through a complex network of relationships before becoming meaningful to stakeholders. Before that, they're just bytes sitting on Jeff Bezos' disks. How are your relationships doing? Which relationships need some light touching up? Which ones need some serious investment? How about that one person on that one team? How about on _your_ team? Are you tracking these gaps with the same effectiveness you're tracking tech debt? It takes an intentional effort to build meaningful connections and to show peers you're a stakeholder in _their_ success. It's worth your time -- not to mention you'll feel great!! Want to optimize your engineering platform? Start by investing in your relationships!

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Since the introduction of the Delivery API in Umbraco 12, the amazing Umbraco community has been asking a bunch of questions on how to do this and that with the API. A lot of those questions have led to a better API feature set and/or improved documentation 🚀 A few have not (yet) made it into the official docs. I have put together a blog post describing some of the most interesting/useful, undocumented extension points in the Delivery API. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dNRVh3hn #umbraco #headless

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"If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture" - Brian Foote and Joesph Yoder My take: My weekend reading, even though I don’t code anymore, I still enjoy exploring topics to stay informed and gain insights from experts in crucial domains. My past experiences have reinforced my belief that a company’s enduring success significantly relies on the quality of architecture crafted by our solution, data, and enterprise architects. While mastering this craft demands time, the long-term benefits make it a valuable investment. #softwaredevelopment #architecture

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We have reached 200,000+ installations for our SpeedyCache WordPress Plugin. SpeedyCache helps WordPress users in improving the page speed and improves user experience, by serving cached pages of the website. SpeedyCache is not just confined to cache, it provides other features as well like Critical CSS, Purge Varnish, Image Optimization, GZIP, Minify and Combine CSS/JS, Defer Render-blocking JS, Instant Page, Browser Caching, Display Swap for Google Fonts, Async Google Fonts : https://lnkd.in/dNv_fB2M Many new exciting features will be coming in 1.1.8 as well. So stay tuned. #wordpress #cache #varnish #criticalcss #image #minify #pagespeed #cloud #wordpresscache #webp #migration #imageoptimize #css #js #database #cdn #webuzo #plugin #webhosting #instantpage #render #webdevelopment #softaculous #virtualizor #sharedhosting #backuply #googlefonts

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So I hear goblin.tools is doing amazingly well with users and near the top of the Apple Store charts? A few thoughts 💭 after reading Maggie Appleton's Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers article. https://lnkd.in/eYPf3Bfh It would seem this disruptive #AI todo list product checks the local-first data box, less from a community aspect though. That said, I think this project could highlight her Barefoot Developer points. This image below really caught my attention because I’ve been thinking a lot about Business Process Automation after I did my deep dive into Apple & Microsoft’s #AI ecosystems and SLMs (local) impact. https://lnkd.in/eKeQyDxD Makes me wonder if the "financial planning wonks producing extensive spreadsheets" and much much much more are coming? Or will there be a new normal and the same % splits stick around? Either way, I still feel certain you need to build this... if you do not Barefoot Developers will!

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I'm working on a rough prototype for multi-location support on #Shopify. Unlike Magento, Shopify's UI is structured differently, giving no control over the display of shipping methods. However, assuming that the shipping methods are consistent across locations, it should function properly. Dates may vary by location, which is why we need two calendars. #shipping

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Another thing I do is track my time, religiously. Every single bit of "work" time I spend is tracked by client (which is sometimes my own company), project, and task. This makes it easy for me to see what I was doing, when, who it was for, and how long it actually took. I can also generate reports to see how much time I spent on certain types of tasks, including mundane things like "Processing" (which includes email, Slack, etc.)

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Changing our approach to problem-solving can be challenging. We've invested a significant amount of time mastering our current methods, so considering a change can be difficult. However, I believe it's beneficial to periodically review these methods to identify potential improvements. Recently, I revisited my approach to using workflows with AWS Step Functions to see if I could enhance the developer experience. https://lnkd.in/d7ctS3_s

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New Tutorial: Setting Up Templ Using Nix Flakes. I'm on a little side-quest to see if Go (and/or Rust) are a viable alternative to a NodeJS or PHP heavy stack for small-scope/heavy-traffic websites. While setting up Templ I figured this was a good topic for a Tutorial. P.S. Also peep the new cherry blossom theme! https://lnkd.in/gG8R2QuA

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