I’ve been checking out Zed - zed.dev… - a new super-fast, multiplayer code editor.
I know editors are a deeply person thing, but I only lightly tinker with editor settings and hope for sensible defaults. Zed ticks the boxes for me. I’m impressed: it’s fast, minimal and the developers seem receptive to the community at github.com…
It’s currently in alpha, but I’ve (currently) got invite codes if you’d like to kick the tyres - barryfrost.com…
This three-part podcast from @devleadership_ on engineering leadership roles is well worth queueing up. Plenty of takeaways from Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner) and Eiso Kant (@eisokant). podcasts.apple.com…
This three-part podcast from @devleadership_ on engineering leadership roles is well worth queueing up. Plenty of takeaways from Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner) and Eiso Kant (@eisokant). podcasts.apple.com…
Source control in the 1980s using a pink dinosaur, part of Paul Fellows’ tales of Acornsoft, Arthur and RISC OS:
We had 7 or 8 guys trying to write an operating system to go into a ROM, so you’ve got to get it right, and they’re all doing different bits of it and some of these share system files. No CVS, no source control, no Sourcesafe, none of that. The solution was the main system header file with all the constants, SWI numbers and addresses of everything lived in. You could edit that if you...