Software developer with a passion for long distance cycling, raising my daughter, and generally challenging myself.
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Eric Williams retweeted
I hate these "coding isn't the hard part" tweets
I have been a part of and seen several companies not just struggling with "the right decision" but the culmination of their past technical decisions.
AI won't magically make this go away. Lines of Code is still a liability and producing it faster doesn't change or reduce it, if anything it increases liability.
Room temperature Twitter take strikes yet again
Eric Williams retweeted
All signals are suggesting Discriminated Unions are finally on for C# 15 and #dotnet 11
ALT Discriminated Unions coming in .NET
Eric Williams retweeted
Do you know that .NET 10 massively reduces the overhead of using any built-in collections via interfaces (yes, not only for arrays)?
Iterating a list via IList<T>, or dictionary via 'IDictionary<K,V>', etc., now has almost zero abstraction penalty!
Eric Williams retweeted
ship something shitty fast and fix it later culture just does not produce anything great
there's mountains of rationale as to why you should do that but i've never seen it work and it always turns the company into a painful place to work
nothing going on right now changes this
Eric Williams retweeted
My biggest beef with Scrum: The sprint time box creates an arbitrary deadline.
Arbitrary deadlines lead to rushing.
Rushing leads to cutting corners.
Cutting corners leads to bugs and tech debt.
Bugs and tech debt reduce trust.
Reduced trust leads to more command and control, approval boards, and fewer releases.
Fewer releases lead to higher risk and more rushing to avoid missing infrequent releases, which further erodes trust.
It's a downward spiral.
Eric Williams retweeted
It's here! Gleam v1.4.0 is out now! ✨
gleam.run/news/supercharged-…
Eric Williams retweeted
It finally arrived declarative #CSharp markup for @AvaloniaUI #dotnet via #NuGet nuget.org/packages/Avalonia.…
Eric Williams retweeted
What's your favourite Algebraic Data Type?
I'll start. The binary tree type is a banger. It is what got me into Functional Programming.
Even after studying Computer Science for 5 years before discovering FP, I couldn't realise code could be so elegant ✨
ALT type 'a tree = | Leaf | Node of 'a * 'a tree * 'a tree
Eric Williams retweeted
>wake up & join stand up
>waste 1 hour over nothing
>try to get some work in
>some random guy pings you "hello" waiting forever for you to respond like a deadlocked thread
>a service crashes and needs investigating
>already time for tech sync
>coffee break
>backlog already
>5pm
Eric Williams retweeted
Avalonia is now recommending developers focus on building apps with @AvaloniaUI or XPF. Both are brilliant options, depending on your cross-platform needs.
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Eric Williams retweeted
The part on the right is Avalonia UI (the part on the left an AV control system). This is using the OpenAI assistant API with function callbacks. I was shocked how easy I got audio in/out working with Avalonia
Eric Williams retweeted
We just shipped @AutofacIoC v7, with automatic support for required properties, and improved ability to support unloadable assemblies and AssemblyLoadContext!
Blog post with some more details:
alistairevans.co.uk/2023/03/…