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2024

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Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please

Link: Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please: "Correction: Throughout this article, I attribute Chapter 2 of Clean Code to Robert Martin, however I was recently informed that this particular chapter was actually authored by Tim Ottinger. That s…"

A nice deconstruction of a refactoring gone bad. The article makes good points and I agree that Uncle Bob’s (tm) refactoring is not great. Oh but apparently a ghost writer wrote that chapter. Now in defense of the book, it was written many years ago and we’ve all gotten a lot smarter about what it means to write Clean Code (tm). Here’s the article:

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Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity

Link: Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity: "Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And"

Another reason why I believe being the founder of a well funded startup is not risky. If the startup is indeed well funded then you as a founder or employee can count on your salary for say between one and three years. No matter what revenue or earnings are, because they are not expected at the very start. Compare that with a job at an established company where layoffs can come out of nowhere and affect anyone. Not sure which is riskier … it depends … but in my opinion the startup is not clearly riskier. See the attached article for an explanation of one factor, but not the only factor.

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TEO

Link: TEO: "TEO is the schema-driven web server framework native to Rust, Node.js and Python. It reduces developing time and improves developers' life experience."

Wow a brand new web framework! Where did this spring from, apparently fully formed, out of nowhere? Or am I not hanging out in the right neighborhood? Take a look at the attached site!

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How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly - Learn How To Learn

Link: How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly - Learn How To Learn: "Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]"

This reminds me of the oil barron”s secret to great wealth: “wake up early. Work late. Strike oil”.

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Piku

Link: Piku: "piku, inspired by dokku, allows you do git push deployments to your own servers, no matter how small they are."

There are now several new and different ways for us to try and get back the magic of #heroku #git-push deployments. The attached link shows a new entrant that’s worth a look

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How to build a basic RAG app

Link: How to build a basic RAG app: "The dawn of Generative AI makes possible new kinds of capabilities for the applications we build...."

RAG, RAG, RAG. It seems everyone is talking about it. The attached article has a nice hands on scenario to help me understand what RAG is all about.