The best programmers: Many geospatial professions involve – varying degrees of – #programming. In a new article, Matthias Endler has collected fundamental #traits that the best #programmers he knows seem to share.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-15-the-best-programmers/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Please, #programmers, use Occam's razor when you write #code...
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
— anonymous
Saddest letters and texts written by programmers https://chat-to.dev/post?id=ci93eDdacDhXMGdTNnRocEs5UXBHQT09 #programmers #technology #burnout #jobs
Linked is a fun article, mostly because I agree with just about all the points made!https://salas.com/2025/04/11/the-best-programmers-i-know/#programming #software-engineering #coding #programmers #developers #best-practices
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!
— John Carmack
Linus Torvalds built #Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/ by @sjvn
Today, many developers can't imagine a world without Git. When it first appeared, most #programmers hated it. Oh, how things have changed!
My Phellow Pharo #Programmers who write scientific #software, do have a look at the Units package, which can safely perform mixed-unit computations like the following to obtain the correct result \(63.21 ft\):
\(\texttt{14foot + 15m.}\)
The NASA-Lockheed Mars Climate Orbiter catastrophe could have been avoided, had the probe control software been implemented in Smalltalk.
@baldur “The only issue I am facing as a professional #art director in games is that I just want them to leave me and my art teams alone so we can make cool art. There is *no problem to be solved here*”.
I don’t think the Art director is looking at this from a business angle. The problem being solved is to reduce the high cost #WhiteCollar workforce and still make a profit.
This has been happening since 2022 when #ChristopherHohn decided SE/SWE cost to much for #Alphabet (#google) and all the SW companies followed.
Why?
Later that year #OpenAI released #ChatGPT.
Here is that article: #programmers / #tech / #software / #AI <https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/11/15/billionaire-hedge-fund-investor-urges-alphabet-to-cut-costs-no-justification-for-salaries-that-are-too-high/>
#PROGRAMMERS !!! now that I have your attention. Please read and heed: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ and https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood #Programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALmRKVcUjU
#BigTech alternatives are underway. #EU must invest more in development of #EUSoftware and #programmers
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
— Martin Golding
I shrugged, dismissively, when the Reason #programming language was announced as the new syntactic veneer atop OCaml. OCaml in C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax—why?
But I, too, had been ensnared by that same comfortable vice grip of "apparent innovation". On many occasions, I had dreamt of new, modernised syntax for Fortran, C, Standard ML, Scheme, and the like. In my dreams, that so-called "new" syntax inexplicably resembles the "old" syntax of Hope/Miranda/Haskell/Agda.
#Programmers....
DO NOT TEACH 'git add .' to new #programmers start working with #Git. This is so bad! Adding Subdirectories (including .) should not be accepted by the 'git add' command. I have seen so much shit over the years commited by junior devs not reviewing what they doing. It's not the fault of junior #developers but Gits and everyone who's teaching 'git add .' #programming
Yes, it is true! 
It's Webinar Time!
... and we’re back with another ITSPmagazine Thought Leadership Webinar — because impactful conversations and meaningful perspective exchanges are what we’re all about.
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Secure Coding = Developer Power: How To Convince Your Boss To Invest In You An ITSPmagazine Webinar With Manicode Security 
April 16, 2025
We’re honored to welcome two brilliant minds joining Sean Martin, CISSP — yes, of course, he’s pretty sharp too 
— for this one:
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, Course Instructor for Manicode and CTO at RAD Security
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Writing software as if we are the only person that ever has to comprehend it is one of the biggest mistakes and false assumptions that can be made.
— Karolina Szczur
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
— Gerald Weinberg
Programmers Battle Typos in Silly Ways https://chat-to.dev/post?id=TEZBYkhyTWVVcHlIMHl4S2NKOGZ3Zz09&redirect=/profile?u=amargo85 #funny #programmers #programming #coding
“Beginning #programmers are often so eager to accomplish the first part of that definition—writing a #program to perform a certain #task—that they fail on the second part of the definition, meeting the stated #constraints.
I call a program like that, one that appears to produce correct results but breaks one or more of the stated rules, a #KobayashiMaru.”
— #VAntonSpraul
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