I find it very difficult to recommend generative ai as a learning tool (specifically for juniors) as it often spits out terrible code (or even straight up not working) which could be mistaken as "good" code. I think the more experienced a dev is, the better it is to use more like a pair programmer.

The problem is it cannot go back and correct/improve already generated output unless prompted to. It is getting better and better, but it is still an overly glorified template generator, for the most part, that often includes import statements from packages that don't exist, one off functions that could have been inline (cannot go back and correct itself), and numerous garbage variables that are referenced only once and take up heap space for no seemingly no good reason.

Mainly speaking on GPT4, CoPilot is better, both have licensing concerns (of where did it get this code from) if you are creating something real and not for fun.

I have been using "gaming" keyboards for coding for ~10 years now. The only thing to be wary of imo, is keebs that have "extra customizable keys" on them and break conformity from a standard layout. Depends on the device, but Logitech will call them "G keys", for example, and often stick them on the far left of the board, left of tab/caps/L shift. Makes life a lot more difficult if not gaming.

Outside of that, I think calling something a "gaming" keyboard is more of a marketing tactic to up the price. It's hard to not recommend mechanical, but that sounds out of budget and often hard to do wireless/bluetooth, but personally I think mech is the top priority.

What I have seen a lot of peers do is wait to see whatever keyboard the get in office, then buy the same one for home for consistency, rather than dragging a personal one back and forth. Often companies will offer basic boards like logitech K270, K350, or K650. Not amazing, not terrible, and most likely fit in your described criteria.

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I believe in GitHub branch protection rules, you can set required review by a code owner, as well as set an amount of reviews required.

You are also able to structure codeowner files and assign codeowners to certain paths within the repo that they "own", rather than all or nothing.

You are able to set bypass rules for certain individuals, and as repo admin there is a little checkbox on PRs that will appear by default to allow you to ignore the requirements, although it is generally not recommended, but I won't harp on the reasons others have already pointed out.

disclaimer: I mainly work on a GHES instance, which may be function slightly different than public GH

December 8th, 2009 - Motorola Droid successfully rooted ... [granting] root access on the phone using a terminal emulator. This is how I learned bash which inevitably pushed me into pursuing proper Computer Science.

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It covers each and every line of the source code, each and every conditional statement in the program and every loop otherwise known as iteration in the program.

I think it is important to note 100% code coverage ("covers each and every line") does not mean the tests are good tests.

The myth of 100% code coverage

I did not know this, thank you for sharing. I am going to leave the comment because it has generated some good discourse (and hopefully maybe more) and in my reality, I don't think I would even notice if this instance chooses defederation.

I look towards the experts to try and form my opinion here, as I am not one.

Our stance: We have been advocating for interoperability between platforms for years. The biggest hurdle to users switching platforms when those platforms become exploitative is the lock-in of the social graph, the fact that switching platforms means abandoning everyone you know and who knows you. The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

I see that full blog as a "threads is good for the fediverse". I only look at and interact with local on this instance, but am generically against jumping to defederation because "no like".

Interpreted language != Compiled language

I am constantly fighting for more time coding. If you were to look at my calendar, there's only ~5 hours per week of open time. My customers are our developers, however, so for the most part I am at least in meetings about code and SDLC rather than random feature refinements and such.

IDEs for this purpose (android dev) are not small little text editors that work well with limited resources. Keep that in mind. You will also need to consider things like compilation and phone emulation, which can also be resource intensive.

I highly recommend looking for something that is built with a Linux distro by default. This will make your life easier in the long run, although it may not be a simple task up front if you are not familiar with Linux.

I don't actually have a Linux laptop, it is a desktop, but I use my Steam deck as a Linux laptop, and can almost do everything I want to, although steamos will require some weirdness similar to Windows. I use IntelliJ Ultimate on my steam deck and can successfully work on smaller scale Go and Kotlin projects while running IntelliJ low power mode.

Most larger dev shops (in the JVM world) will just hand out whatever is the current top ~$3000 MacBook pro (for reasons). This leads to a lot of devs using OSx at work and Linux (at home) for personal projects. An apple computer of any type can help prepare for this inevitability, if Linux is out of the options. I personally dislike this, as I am not an Apple fan, but this is what I have experienced.

Although I use Windows for some personal development, there are so many hoops that one has to jump through to get Windows working properly for advanced things, it almost isn't worth it and requires heavy windows development knowledge, and is probably best to just get a MacBook (of whatever type).

I can't vote due to VPN, but the UBP icons look awesome, and I think using them across the board will look great. With specific language icons, can still use the actual icon with the modified color gradient (like git community is) and still gets the point across and looks great IMO.