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Looking for advice/experience on spec driven development for a big application while also maintaining an overarching application spec in c/experienced_devs@programming.dev
[–] 4 points 1 month ago*

I have been building a system, it's hitting 2m lines of code soon (backend + frontend).

Currently, I have landed in a flow where I maintain a roadmap of releases. Each release is a featureset that I can test, verify, and demo. Most releases are planned through a PRD document which contains user stories, other constraints, and implementation phases. Then, I create as many ADRs and TDs as necessary.

Tbh, all these are for me to keep track of what I am building. I am having agents write the bulk of these documents by rumbling to a microphone for a good deal of time and then reviewing ruthlessly. You have much more control over small and steady increments.

When I feel adequetly prepared, I start coding, most of the time I will lay the foundation and then have agents fill in the implementations.

I don't really worry about future proofing my architecture. It's not like I have a massive database that will take multiple days to create an index, most of the changes are cheap.

Nothing of the above is new, they are well established tools mostly used by larger organizations, the only thing that changes with AI is the scale in which you can use them.

The above apply only fo projects I am serious with (2 projects atm), the rest I just ask AI to build what I need and send it the bugs until it works as expected.

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    Killswitch Engineer in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
    [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    Can’t wait for the OpenAI orientation: “Here is a rack. Here is another rack. Here is your bed (rack-adjacent). There is no difference between day and night. Please do not befriend the AI.

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    Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents in c/technology@lemmy.world
    If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired in c/technology@beehaw.org
    What's up with all the "clippy" stuff? in c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world
    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    It's a call to action from Louis Rossmann a consumer rights activist. It's supposed to help people understand how many other people are actually interested in consumer rights/right to repair/right to ownership/privacy.

    There are a few videos explaining the concepts, you may want to look it up.

    The only measurable outcome so far is an increase in contributions to consumerights.wiki, a wiki aiming to be a resource for consumer rights activism.

    It's really fun to find clippy in the wild. Fediverse related videos/channels are more likely to have comments from clippy, but you may find him anywhere really.

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    Gonna trigger half of Lemmy with this one, but I'm heckin annoyed. in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
    I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the #Fediverse, but only on #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Bluesky, #Ghost and #Peertube. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
    Opinions: Dataclasses or Pydantic model base? in c/python@programming.dev
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    Do any of you have a buttload of RAM sitting around? (reddthat.com)
     

    Hi,

    I have a friend who is looking to run a few simulations he has implemented in python and needs around 256GB of ram. He is estimating it will take a couple of hours, but he is studying economics so take that with a grain of salt 🤣

    For this instance, I recommended GCP, but I felt a bit dirty doing that. So, I was wondering if any of you have a buttload of memory he can burrow? Generally, would you lend your RAM for a short amount of time to a stranger over the internet? (assuming internet acccess is limited to a signle ssh port, other necessary safeguards are in place)

    In case any of y'all missed this gem in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Install VüDü itself. In the package, there will be a large square of herb-scented paper. This is the entire code for VüDü.

    IMO this is creating unrealistic expectations for the bundle size of linux distributions 🤣🤣

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    What We Know So Far About the Supposed 'Mother of All Data Breaches' in c/news@beehaw.org
    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Petkauskas’s article describes the discovered breach as “a plethora of supermassive datasets, housing billions upon billions of login credentials” that have been sourced from “social media and corporate platforms to VPNs and developer portals.” This data is sourced from “30 exposed datasets” that researchers say contains “tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records each.”

    To be clear, this is not a new data breach, or a breach at all, and the websites involved were not recently compromised to steal these credentials

    Regardless of whether this involves freshly leaked credentials or not, it might be a good time to freshen up your logins. Hackers’ jobs are getting easier by the day.

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    No one and no group is above factual, respectful criticism in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel you will appreciate reading a bit of Kant's work, the critique of pure reason would a good start. In perpetual peace, he makes the argument that in order to achieve peace everyone should freely exercise their right to "public reason", aka their right as an individual to critique others (the state, organisations, or individuals).

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    Book Review: Continuous Architecture in Practice (continuousarchitecture.com)
     

    I just finished reading this book and decided to share my experience with it.

    About the Book

    Continuous Architecture in Practice is a sequel to Continuous Architecture both written by Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, and Eion Woods. The authors attempt to address feedback from their 1st book by navigating the reader through the Trade Financs eXchange (TFX) case study.

    The book starts with a brief introduction to the core concepts of Continuous Architecture, including its 6 principles, as well as its essential activities:

    1. Focus on quality attributes
    2. Drive architectural decisions
    3. Know your technical debt
    4. Implement feedback loops

    From then on the book switches focus to common architectural concerns:

    1. Data
    2. Security
    3. Scalability
    4. Performance
    5. Resilience
    6. Emerging Technologies

    Each concern is tackled in a separate chapter that features an introductory quote, a definition along with some historical context, a list of issues an someone should keep in mind when architecting for that concern, a list of tactics, and a further reading section.

    My Opinion

    Overall, I liked reading the book, it gave me a lot of inspiration and a desire to learn more about particular topics. The book assumes a certain level of familiarity with software engineering which helps it focus on general concerns and avoid implemention specific details.

    I particularly liked the Emerging Technlogies chapter as it offers a healthy view on AI, ML, and shared ledgers. It helps remove the fairy dust that's blinding our industry, and instead focuses on meaningful changes that actually provide value to a product.

    Also, as someone with experience in software security I appreciated the focus on shifting left security concerns.

    Who Should Read This

    In my opinion, every software engineer can benefit from reading this at some point in their career. However, I wouldn't recommend it to a junior, if you are not already familiar with the topics covered in the book it could be intemediating.

    PS I am not affiliated with the book or its authors in any way. I am just a person that read a book they liked wanted to share my experience.

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    Any tips for finding a remote job as a senior software engineer? (reddthat.com)
     

    Hi,

    I am looking for a remote senior software engineer position. Most of my career I have been using connections to move from one job to another but this time I haven't had the luck, so I am mostly blindly applying through LinkedIn.

    I know the general tips but I would like to get some more specific tips to improve my chances.

    How can I make my CV stand out? I feel I am getting rejected by positions that are way below my qualifications. I have wondered if I should be updating my CV according to the stack of the position I am applying for. Throughout my career I have focused on building transfarable skills and as a result I have worked with a wide variety of technologies and it feels like I am being penalized for that.

    Are there any job boards that may be better than LinkedIn? I am tired of skimming through ads about fintech and AI positions. I am not interested in those and I would prefer to work somewhere that I genuinely I am contributing something in the world. Also, I would be interested on job boards on the Fediverse, especially if it meant that my resume is read by humans and not machines.

    How can I avoid time wasters? I had applied to Canonical, after 8 interviews and a bunch of offline steps, I was rejected. While the interviews were fun, I feel I have wasted a lot of time and energy for a someone that was not genuinely interested in hiring.

    Anything else I should be paying attention to?

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    What do you think about the recent LW controversy? (reddthat.com)
     

    Recent events over at lemmy.world have got me thinking, and I wanted to see what the community here are reddthat.com thinks.

    Most details are available at the lw admin team's latest post. TLDR A discussion about whether a vegan cat diet was viable started at c/vegan. An admin banned some comments and removed a moderator of the community. LW updated their TOS with a section about misinformation. The admin actions were reversed.

    (Probably, I am misrepresenting the situation, read the link before taking up arms)

    While, I prefer to enter my own opinions in a comment, I would like to add some questions to frame the discussion:

    1. What do you the new section about misinformatiom? Do you think reddthat needs one?
    2. What do you think about how the situation was handled by the LW admin team?
    3. Given that LW is the biggest lemmy instance, how do you think these changes will influence smaller instances like reddthat?
    4. Do you have any other take aways from this? Or any other questions?
    5. (bonus) Isn't it hilarious that lemmy has its own tea (=gen z for drama)?
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    Rant about "having ADHD is not an excuse for everything" (reddthat.com)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/adhd@lemmy.world
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    If you haven't heard this cliche while discussing your neurodivergency with someone, then I envy your luck. Yesterday I fucked up, I feel shitty, but also I am pissed.

    Our brains are impulsive af and tend to forget the most important information. We mess up, our RSD (and empathy) kicks in, we feel terrible, we vow to be more careful, but guess what? Thats fucking exhausting.

    As a result, we start overthinking our every waking moment, stressing over every little thing. Because, we are trying to be aware of the things we cannot perceive.

    At some point, hopefully we realize that we cannot live like that, and we start to arbitrarily ignore our compulsion to overthink. Most often that works out great because most often the threat is not real, but sometimes we make the wrong call.

    The times we overthink are still more than the times we do not, and we still mess up. Let us have our fucking peace.

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    Americans would you consider wearing a Guy Fawks mask on election day? (reddthat.com)
     

    Not an American, but I just noticed that the election day is on the 5th of November. Given the similarities between Trump and the chancellor, it seems like a good opportunity to remind people what is coming if they vote for Trump.

    For those who haven't watched V for Vendetta, do it, the reference will make sense.

    Remember, remember, the 5th of November,

    Gunpowder, treason and plot.

    I see no reason

    Why gunpowder treason

    Should ever be forgot.

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    Lemmings do you feel like you are falling behind in your area of expertise? (reddthat.com)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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    As a software engineer I have adapted to the world turning upside down every couple of years and having to learn new concepts and technologies. However, I have been noticing other fields struggling to adapt as things change in a faster scale.

    For example, some researchers have pointed out that the number of papers about ADHD increases exponentially every year. However, most mental health professionals, at least in my area, seem to be severily outdated, often using information that has been debunked within the last 10-20 years.

    So, I was wondering if other fields are affected and how they are adapting?

    Edit: Bonus question, assuming a 40hr week (a luxury for most), how much time out those 40hrs would you need to spend on education?

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    What's a moment in your life where you felt fully alive? (reddthat.com)
     

    I am reading "Unmasking Autism" by Devon Price and the introduction has an exercise that requires you to come up with 5 moments in your life where you felt fully alive. I have spent the better part of yesterday trying to remember such moments, but I am not even sure what it means... I was hoping the community here can provide some insights, either by sharing their moments or their definition of being "fully alive".

    Full text of the exercise for anyone interested:

    Instructions: Think of five moments in your life when you felt like you were FULLY ALIVE. Try to find moments from throughout your life (childhood, adolescence, adulthood; school, work, vacation, hobbies).

    Some of the moments might leave you with a sense of awe and wonder—“wow, if all of life was like that, life would be amazing!” Some of the moments might leave you feeling deeply recharged and ready to face the next challenge, or satisfied and fulfilled.

    Write down each of these moments. Tell the story of each moment in as much detail as possible. Try to think specifically about why the moment stuck with you sodramatically.

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    Trouble logging in with jerboa (reddthat.com)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/community@reddthat.com
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    For the past 3 days I have trouble logging in reddthat using jerboa. I am able to log in to other accounts, including LW. Also, I am able to log in reddthat with the web app and Eternity. When I log in, I get a message Illegal input field, public_key is required (the full message is not visible).

    I am using a password manager so I am sure I am using the correct credentials. I have reinstalled jerboa and deleted all data.

    Anything I can try? Anyone else facing the same issue?

    Edit: I have tried every version from 0.60 to 0.65, some of them I have used successfully in the past.

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