Honored to be asked to review @pragdave.bsky.social's new book for programmers, Simplicity. It was such a joy to read -- like having your super experienced senior dev best friend share all their coding and productivity secrets. It's now in beta, check it out ❤️ pragprog.com/titles/dtcod...

I had a really nice chat with @bruceeckel.bsky.social and @jamesward.com about programming, need, and satisfaction creators.spotify.com/pod/show/hap...

Day 7 of the #AdventofCode. I'm really please with the first part: generating all permutations of the two operators by adding one to a count.

And #AdventOfCode day 4 is up, including a wee little data-driven search... youtu.be/Uy02EnbHvbA

Day 3 of AoC is up. Lots of regular expressions and bad typing... youtu.be/8WC8kks2Mws

This week's PragProg Best Sellers: 1. Agile Web Development with Rails 8 by @intertwingly.net 2. Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang by @whatyouhi.de 3. Real-World Event Sourcing by @kevinhoffman.bsky.social https://pragprog.com/best_sellers/

Day 2 of my #AdventOfCode exploration is now online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6EL...

ust as an experiment, I'm recording myself working through the Advent of Code challenges. The videos are pretty raw: I edit out long silences and the occasional dog park, but otherwise they've just me bumbling along. Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEI2...

Massive congratulations to Chris McCord and the team for reaching the amazing milestone of LiveView 1.0.

Most framework curators seem to value signing up new users over supporting existing users and their apps–each major release will adopt the libraries and ideas du jour, attracting people who want to play with them to the detriment of existing users who now have to spend time fixing their code.

This is Finley. Finley's parents work in our ebook department, where they enjoy picking out the best 1s and 0s as they craft each download. They would really appreciate it if you'd pick up one of the books they made, because they hope to buy Finley a wheel for Christmas.

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Aerospace might well be the workspace manager for OS X that I've been looking for. Anyone got any other favorites?

I just tried installing eight popular CMS apps under Rails 8. Only one of them got past the initial install stage. Makes me want to use Java.

This afternoon I submitted an issue to the JRuby team. Five hours later they had the fix ready to merge. I'm seriously impressed.

On the face of it, Payload and Drizzle have a nice looking take on database migrations. During development, the scheme just updates automatically. When a feature is complete, you then ask it to create a migration to formalize the little changes you've made.

I really try not to do too much self promotion. I think it's annoying, and I generally believe that the best way to get interest in your work is to give people something they value. That said, new platform so I'll do this once: I wrote a book about Haskell: www.pragprog.com/titles/rshas...

I have just finished reading Currently Away, by @redrapids.bsky.social and @maggietate.bsky.social. It is not a book about a boat trip. It is a book about two fascinating human beings that decided to take that trip (known as The Great Loop). In some chapters you cry, but most of the time you laugh.

"What I do now is type English sentences in increasingly desperate attempts to get ChatGPT to output what I want (or provide snippets to Copilot to get the right autocompletion), which -- as they are pretty much black boxes -- is frustrating and non-linear: it either "just works," or it doesn't. "

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw

For #rubyconf, I've got a coupon code. 35% off the Pickaxe ebook at pragprog.com/titles/ruby5... with the code: rubyconfchicago Good through the end of November...

Now out of beta, Serverless Apps on Cloudflare by Ashley Peacock helps you focus on code, not servers. Medium: medium.com/pragmatic-pr... ebook: pragprog.com/titles/apapps Paper: www.biblio.com/bookstores/ #serverless #cloudflare #cloudcomputing #webdevelopment #pragprog #books