"The cost of writing code has indeed dropped. But the cost of making sense of it together as a team hasn't. That's still the bottleneck."
#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #cost #teams
https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck
I love reading Python code, and I have learned so much from going through the Requests, Flask and pyca/cryptography repos. This is a really interesting readthrough of one of the stdlib modules that I wouldn’t ever have considered.
Plugin UX isn’t just about UI—it starts with the code.
If devs are fighting your plugin architecture, your users will feel it too. Good DX = better UX. Here’s why it matters 👇
#DeveloperExperience #PluginDev #UXDesign #CodeQuality #OpenSource
1/5 Heya Fed, Hint of the day for the devs out there: I was heavily reliant on Dependabot to keep my project's software dependencies versions up to date (you are keeping your dependencies up to date, right?).
Some colleagues who are deeper into OSS told me to try Renovate, but I mostly dismissed it as just alt tech.
#devops #renovatebot #oss #dependabot #automation #softwaremaintenance #ci #monorepo #buildtools #developerexperience #selfhosted
1/5 Heya Fed, Hint of the day for the devs out there: I was heavily reliant on Dependabot to keep my project's software versions up to date (you are keeping your dependencies up to date, right?).
Some colleagues who are deeper into OSS told me to try Renovate, but I mostly dismissed it as just alt tech.
#devops #renovatebot #oss #dependabot #automation #softwaremaintenance #ci #monorepo #buildtools #developerexperience #selfhosted
When our tools or #DeveloperExperience sucked in the past we set out to create better tooling. Nowadays, we just throw #AI at it. Not to create better tools, but to paint over it. Hiding the problems. And we "solve" the same issue every time afresh. Consuming a lot of energy, getting every time a different solution. That's #vibecoding killing innovation and progress. I'm so sick of this.
If you must use AI, use it to build better tools. But please, solve the problem not the symptoms.
Platform engineering often isn’t about helping developers. It’s about giving security, finance, and infrastructure teams centralized control, dressed up with a Kubernetes logo.
In this #InfoQ #podcast, Holly Cummins discusses how "messing around and having fun" boosts problem-solving in software engineering!
She dives into the big shift from just coding to managing code with AI and tackling cognitive overload.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/46g89ZM
Want to know what tools and practices lead the pack? Find out at the DevOps Meetup!
📅 June 25, 2025 | 📍 Zühlke, Zürich
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/devops-meetup-zurich/events/304895513/
#PlatformEngineering #DeveloperExperience #DevOpsReport2025 #CloudNative #Switzerland
New technical article by Steven Renaux from the SensioLabs Tech Team 🚀
💻 Learn how to use Service Subscribers & traits for lazy service loading in #Symfony and #PHP
It will improve your Developer Experience #DX
Read more here 👉 https://bit.ly/3G8ZoGr
It's an interesting point you highlight because I've never thought of things through that paradigm. Now that I see it, I realise I'm hoping to transition to #openBSD because I believe of mainstream operating systems, it probably has the best #DX.
In this particular case, I believe that the developers exploit that in order to optimise for what might be called #security which impresses me.
I realise it's probably an outlier in this regard!
#developerExperience #cybersecurity #quality #systemArchitecture #cybernetics #complexSystemsTheory #qualityAssurance #Deming #Shuart #design #software #coding #softwareEngineering #abstraction #electricalEngineering #HDL #VHDL #theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware
"Too much reliance on AI may be 'a bit of an impending disaster,' Jackson adds, because 'not only will we have masses of broken code, full of security vulnerabilities, but we'll have a new generation of programmers incapable of dealing with those vulnerabilities.'"
#ai #vibecoding #replacement #softwareengineering #developerexperience
https://www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-engineering-apocalypse/
Great software starts with great onboarding.
Developer onboarding isn’t just about getting someone a laptop and access to GitHub. It’s about setting them up to succeed, contribute confidently, and feel like they belong.
Here’s why it matters:
- A poor onboarding experience slows down productivity
- It creates unnecessary frustration and confusion
- Worst of all—it risks losing good people early
Want to get it right? Start here:
- Pair every new dev with a buddy for the first month
- Document setup instructions clearly—think README, not tribal knowledge
- Give them a small, real ticket to ship in week one. This one is crucial. Most developers feel nervous at the beginning because they feel like they aren't contributing to something.
- Help them understand the why, not just the how
The best onboarding leaves people thinking, "I made the right choice coming here."
#DeveloperExperience #Onboarding #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #TeamCulture
"Unlike other crafts, in software engineering, it really is possible to build the roof before you finish building the walls. And it's also possible to build that roof so it doesn't even eventually line up with the walls."
#softwareengineering #developerexperience #knowledgework
https://www.fossable.org/projects/sandpolis/7-years-of-development/
¡Ya queda poco para contestar la encuesta para desarrolladores de JetBrains! Echadle un ojo, hay sorteo de premiacos:
https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer-ecosystem-survey-2025-sh?pcode=710700286266721899
"It's all special pleading anyways. LLMs digest code further than you do. If you don't believe a typeface designer can stake a moral claim on the terminals and counters of a letterform, you sure as hell can't be possessive about a red-black tree."
"Vibe coding is like owning a high-end oven at home: it enables more people to experiment and create, but it doesn't replace professional chefs in restaurants."
#ai #vibe #coding #softwareengineering #developerexperience #replacement
https://pashabitz.substack.com/p/the-software-engineering-kawagara
"It would have taken longer to review the complete solution, and you wouldn't have ended up with tests that cover the behaviors you know must exist—and that let you know whether or not the solution even works."
#vibecoding #softwareengineering #developerexperience #ai #aadv
🎤 Just gave my first public keynote at #DevDaysEurope: "Readable Code: The Secret to Clean, Productive Software"!
Covered what readability really means, why it matters, metrics, AI’s impact, and practical ways to improve codebases.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQBYQvyGPLE
#ReadableCode #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperExperience
sttp client is an open-source HTTP client for Scala, supporting various approaches to writing Scala code. Recently, sttp client received a major release, and version 4 is now available! 🎉
👉 Discover the Scala HTTP client you always wanted: https://github.com/softwaremill/sttp
We are involved in many open source projects, as we want to support the community and improve ours and other developers' experience.
#sttp #sttpclient #scala #opensource #devex #developerexperience
