Programming Digest - PD#580 Always Measure One Level Deeper

Always Measure One Level Deeper
10 minutes by Murat Buffalo

The key to good performance measurement is to make many more measurements besides the ones you think will be important; it is crucial to understand not just the system’s performance but also why it performs that way.

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This is what software development looks like now
11 minutes by Forrest Brazeal

There is value for a developer to spend their time to push the bounds of what they think Gen AI can add to their workflow. Pick a toy project like this one, and challenge yourself to get as far as you can with prompting and iterating, without hand-jamming much code.

The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012
6 minutes by Laurent Le Brun

BUILD files had inconsistent formatting, mixing various indentation styles without a standard guide. It was often easy to spot copy-pasted blocks of code because their formatting stood out. Past discussions about style guides showed there were lots of disagreements among engineers. The previous attempt to write a formatting tool had limited adoption. It had some issues and it was hard to get adoption.

Good code is rarely read
3 minutes by Alex Molas

In conclusion, good code is rarely read. Good code is so ergonomic that you almost don’t need to read it; you just use it.

What's hidden behind "just implementation details"
10 minutes

Something I hear occasionally from some software people is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details." This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting activities to build an application or production system around this algorithm.

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