Linux Dev Time – Episode 109

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You need to be able to write good code to be a successful developer, but how important are other “soft” skills like communication, relating to and motivating others, and time management?

Kevin mentioned a blog post about burnout in the Rust project

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 107

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What is it about Linux that draws us to it as a development platform? Plus why we choose the specific distros that we use.

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 105

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Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.

 

Andy’s links

git-what

IGCC

Box Stacker

Rightwaves

Eat Apples Quick!

Smolpxl Games

Rabbit Escape Android Game

element-web

matrix-rust-sdk

FreeGuide

i-dunno

Announcing I-DUNNO 1.0 and web-i-dunno

qdsync

 

Kevin’s links

clap

clog-cli

clog-lib

typed-oid

usbwatch-rs

baseline

iptables_exporter

wireguard_exporter

CLI2048

violin

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 104

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How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actually wrong, the importance of testing (as usual), and why technical debt isn’t necessarily the best name for the problem.

 

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 103

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Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 102

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What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.

 

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Amolith will be at Fossy in August.

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 101

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Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…

 

 

 

 

 

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