Kollege hatte heute einen guten Tipp. Vielleicht hilft es anderen auch. Mir hats geholfen.

#frontend #backend #webdev #clownforbreakfast #technik #edv #it #support

#question of the day: if you had to pick at most five people in #web #development you'd consider to deliver the most consistently balanced and informative sources - who would they be?

#coding #frontend #fullstack #WebDevelopment #backend #html #css #javascript

#developers #backend

Well, I think it could be nice to talk a bit about myself, so here it goes (it is a long one, be warned)

My (still ongoing) journey from engineering to programming: Prologue
As can be seen in my profile bio, my name is Iago Andrade, and I am a Brazilian. What can't be seen there, though, is that I'm a mechanical engineer, and I have worked as a mechanical designer since 2018. This year (2023) I decided to pursue an old desire, which was to be able to work with #programming.

First contact
From the very first year at university, I fell in love with programming, when we were introduced to #C. Most of my friends were not really interested in that, and thought it was too difficult, but I was fascinated by the possibilities of what could be done with it.
At first, we used it mostly to solve dificult mathematical problems through iterative process, but my curiosity led me to learn more than just what was taught in classes. We were also later introduced to MATLAB and EES, and I even learned a bit of #Python in order to help a friend of mine.
But as the course became more and more time consuming, I started to drift away from that passion, and focus more on the other disciplines, and only sparingly did I delve into anything related to programming.

First job
As I graduated, I soon got a #job in mechanical design, modeling industrial equipment and parts and its drafts for production. As I had little time for studying, programming was put aside for a while, and all the focus was put into this job.
I learned a lot at this job, and managed to build a lot of resources for accelerating, and even automating tasks, and that kept me reminded of how much I liked to solve problems like these. I even got to the point of learning some #bash script in order to automate the creation of folders in the company's server (which did not end up very well, due to the lack of some quotes hehe). Though the script caused some problems, it was solved in the end (and I learned the important lesson of debugging everything very thoroughly).

Reigniting an old passion
At some point between then and now, I learned of the existence of a "new" game engine called #Godot. I had never made any #games, and had never used a game engine before either, but I had had some contact with #FOSS (free and open source softwares), like #blender and #inkscape, and that one caught my attention, since I had always wanted to create games. Since it was free, super lightweight, I decided to give it a go. It felt so good to learn that tool, and programming in it reminded me of how much I liked to code.
Back then, a friend of mine was also interested in making a game, and he wanted to be more focused on the story part of it, which was perfect since I wanted to focus on the programming and possibly the art and music for it. We started to work on the idea, got a ton of references, and started building the overall scope and story, until one day we lost momentum and just couldn't get back to it. Our jobs were sucking too much energy, and we decided to put it aside until we had more time to do it properly.

#SQL and the leap of faith
After some more years of working with 3D modeling, the company where I was working decided to implement an ERP system. The problem was they didn't have anyone from the inside who was qualified for some of the tasks that would appear, and they tasked me with dealing with those problems.
I had never worked with an ERP system, but had some idea of how #databases worked, and that helped a lot in making some decisions early on (like not entrying all data manually). I had to learn how to bulk clean old data from another system they had used before, which had been fed by many different people, with a lot of mistakes and inconsistencies.
After that, I had to import all that data into the system, and I decided it was time to learn SQL so I could query the database properly when I needed information. And that once again triggered my interest in programming, leading to my decision to make new templates for the engineering team.
These templates used programming for automating some of the tasks, in a language specific for the modeling software,reducing many of the steps in the project pipeline, and making it easier to input new equipment in the system.
As I became more and more #tired of some problems at work, and got more interested in programming again, I made the decision of focusing in relearning the languages I had contact with, and while searching for resources, I was informed that #Harvard offered this course online, called #CS50
For a few months I tried, and was unable to #study in my spare time. So ultimately, I decided to #quit my job, finish CS50, and start a career in programming.

Paying the #bills
With only the final project from the course left, money was running short, and bills were still appearing, so I had to start looking for jobs, and I ended up getting another job in mechanical design. The difference now is that it is much closer to home, so I will be able to finish my final project on my spare time, and keep looking for #junior roles in programming.

Epilogue: The Final Project
Since this toot is ridiculously long already, I may as well talk about the final project for whoever got to this part haha
The idea for the project is to mix a bit of #gamedev with #webdev, making a site with three main areas containing mini-games in three different styles, from #ASCII to one with actual graphics. If all goes well, I also wanted to enable players to get a score, and keep that in a database, if the player so desires. #Backend is being done in python with #flask, #frontend is using templates from flasks #jinja, but mostly plain #HTML #CSS and #javascript

Here is the list of articles I read this week regarding PHP, Symfony and software engineering.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rubenrubiob/p/weekly-reading-digest-3?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://dev.to/rubenrubiob/weekly-reading-digest-3-ai2

#php #symfony #backend #consultant #freelance

Thinking about #htmx:

👍 all the #HTML gets generated on the server; the source of truth.

👎 every #DOM manipulation requires a network request.

👍 #declarative easier to reason about.

👎 app behavior declared in bespoke attribute DSL; harder to reason about.

👍 no need to duplicate #backend state on the #frontend.

👎 no offline support.

#webDev #web #webDevelopment #hypermedia #hateoas

In the beginning #websites were static files.

Then websites were generated dynamically on a server with a language like #PHP or #Ruby.

But when we wanted to do complex #frontend behaviors we would need to generate #html in the same way as those #backend languages, which was awkward.

So, we used #reactJS #fullstack to render "Single Page Apps" (#SPA) in the browser and on the server using "Server-Side Rendering" (#SSR).

#webDev #javaScript

Join @marcoow at Porto Tech Hub on October 27th and learn why #rustlang is a great choice for #backend web development! 🚀

➡️ More info: https://portotechhub.com/

Here are the list of articles I read this week regarding PHP, Symfony and software engineering.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rubenrubiob/p/weekly-reading-digest-1-f29?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://dev.to/rubenrubiob/weekly-reading-digest-2-22e0

#php #symfony #backend #consultant #freelance

Today's programming survey - what's your favourite of the following four languages? #code #development #engineering #lang #language #coding #software #python #csharp #javascript #swift #fullstack #backend #fang

🤔 Curious about using state machines in the backend?

⏮️ Check out our live stream from last week, where David and Gavin discuss modeling backend processes and the advantages of using state machines for workflows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgzRFth-L_U

#workflows #serverless #stateMachines #statecharts #backend

I am happy to announce that I joined `Shuttle` as a Paid Open Source Contributor! 🥳🦀

🚀 https://shuttle.rs - Build & ship a backend without writing any infrastructure files.

⭐ `cargo-shuttle`: https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle

👾 Read how I deployed `rustypaste` to `Shuttle`: https://blog.orhun.dev/blazingly-fast-file-sharing/

#rustlang #backend #cloud #opensource

Découverte #tech du soir :
https://pocketbase.io/

Petit projet open source en go avec un seul binaire pour faire du #backend as a service en remplacement de #firebase et #supabase !

What do you think about using your #Smartphone as a #Desktop? #SamsungDeX (#DEX) could be a possibility. Running multiple and free scalable windows at the same time. Using #SSH, #GIT, #VSCode (#VisualStudioCode) and do you casual #DevOps, #Frontend, #Backend things done. #Terminus also provides you a fully #CLI environment. An external keyboard and mouse can be connected by USB-C (or even USB-A by a USB hub) or #Bluetooth connection.

#Gaming? Sure - just give streaming services like #GeForceNow, #XCloud/#XboxCloudGaming a try to even play triple A games like #Battlfield5, #Battlefield2042 or #FIFA2023 on your smartphone in Desktop mode.

Now, with #foldable #devices like the #GalaxyFold (#GalaxyFold4, #GalaxyFold5) you might have a #smartphone, #tablet and #computer/#notebook in a single device without any further need of #syncing files via #cloud #services.

More on my blog: https://gyptazy.ch/underrated-samsung-dex-in-2022/

Question for people who have written hypermedia APIs or any API that link to other endpoints on the same backend:

what patterns have you used, or are currently using?

My biggest concern is, if an endpoint needs to change, how do I ensure that the links in the API responses also reflect the change in the endpoints?

#api #backend #BackendDevelopment #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming

Du hast über deine ersten Erfahrungen hinweg schon kleine Projekte mit Python durchgeführt und suchst einen Job neben deinem #Studium? Du möchtest deine Freiheiten im Remotearbeiten haben?

Dann bewirb Dich beim Fraunhofer SIT! Wir entwickeln IT-Sicherheitslösungen für verschiedenste Anwendungsfälle und untersuchen ständig aktuelle sicherheitsrelevante Themen.

#fraunhofersit #forschung #jobderWoche #IT #backend #python #PostgreSQL #remote #Studijob #darmstadt

https://jobs.fraunhofer.de/job/Darmstadt-Werkstudentin-Backend-Entwickler-%28wmd%29-64295/911718301/

More webdev stuff, this time in #rust 🦀:
https://anto.pt/articles/rust-server-components

My "custom CMS" has been managing my website for some time, and I described my implementation in this article.

I kind of built the same features I wanted from Next.js (i.e., RSC and MDX). My benchmarks destroyed Next.js, which crashed at 50 req/s, while the Rust webserver didn't bat an eye.
I'm also seeing 9MB vs. 250MB of memory being used, but to be fair, my website is not getting loads of traffic.

#web #webdev #react #backend

I'm building my personal CMS in #rust, I think I have a few little gems in it that could be useful to others too 👀
I'll share a blog post with some implementation details soon, in the meanwhile writing these posts looks like this:

#web #NextJS #react #frontend #backend

B) send the user an empty shell. have the client establish a #websocket connection. build a #backend #queue of #API calls to make. process the queue retrying as necessary. insert results into a backend #database. Update the client with the socket connection.

Polymorphic Relationships in ActiveRecord - dick.codes

Full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer. Blogs about programming topics.

https://dick.codes/2023/07/10/polymorphic-relationships.html

#backend #ruby_on_rails