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something old but interesting to remember. can anyone tell me what technologies were used to build the problematic IsAnyoneUp website? and why it was so successful?

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Hey all, I want to know how you all deal with management and pushing tech debt work. Here's a little bit of background on my current situation, and I'd love to hear how you'd deal with it.

I've been in the profession for about 8 years and had a high-level job at my last company where I oversaw a huge amount of modernization work (bringing an old Laravel codebase up to PHP 8, putting all sites in Docker images for the new cloud infrastructure etc...).

I recently got a new remote job with a pretty high salary (I swear this is relevant and not a brag) with a company that has an ancient tech stack. During the interview, we talked about modernizing the company's stack and seemed to be quite important to them. I really like the company and the people working there and I've been really welcomed there. I was brought into the role because of my experience with modernizing code and I worked for a competitor before joining this team.

The tech stack here is pretty simple and ancient. It does work, but it causes a lot of issues. They're using a monolithic Apache server for all of the websites we manage which each dev has to set up with virtual hosts. My first main project is working under a senior dev to scope out a brand new Laravel API which is all modern tech, no outdated PHP versions or anything.

I was pretty pumped the past few weeks but today I hit a lot of roadblocks in working with him and kind of want to hear what you guys feel about the situation.

We're building out an API specification and he insisted that we do it in a Google document, which I suggested we look at an OpenAPI specification instead so we didn't have to keep repeating request bodies and responses. He came back and said something along the lines of: "I don't really want to learn YAML because I don't have time, so we'll stick with the document.". My wrists and fingers still ache from having to copy, paste and edit each request and response manually. Google Docs isn't a great solution for generating API specifications.

Then after that, we bootstrapped the main Laravel application. It's the most recent version of Laravel, and I realised that he'd committed the whole vendor folder to the repo and had gone through the .gitignore files in each dependency and removed stuff that would mess with it. I asked why he did it like that, and he said: "we won't be using Composer because our servers don't have it". Our other applications are running on an older version of PHP so I said we'd need a new server anyways, so why don't we do it the way that Laravel suggests with CI/CD pipelines? He comes back and says "We don't use Composer, and that won't change.". He's been pretty cold to me ever since I started.

Thanks for sticking with me, now back to the salary. How should I approach my manager (the Lead Developer) about this without making it seem like I'm tattling on the Senior? The salary is way more than an average Laravel dev and I know I'll feel bad if I say nothing. I also don't want to dull my skills with newer technologies because I'll struggle in my next role when/if I move on. I spent 3/4 years at my last role and then moved onto another role which only lasted 3 months before coming into this role, so I don't really want to change jobs again for a while.

I'd really value your opinions in this as professionals, even if the technology I've mentioned isn't familiar to you! How would you deal with this situation, especially when it comes to management that don't understand the problems that ignoring tech debt can cause?

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By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years. So it's with great pleasure that I can announce we're dropping TypeScript from the next big release of Turbo 8.

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A novel way to reverse Javascript minification using LLMs.

Visual Studio Code for the Mac, once known as Mono Develop then Xamarin Studio, is being shut down by Microsoft. Visual Studio for Mac will continued to be supported with bug fixes and Apple platform updates for one more year.

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Does anyone know of a document store than can run in memory like HsqlDB or configured to run on little resources (similar to postgres)?

I have written a dockerised set of Java services, most of them have fixed data structures and so I have used Hibernate with HsqlDB/Postgres for them, however..

The idea is to construct dynamic data processing pipelines which each add microformats for analysis if this takes place.

This means the resulting objects can be quite different, normally I would use a document store like MonogoDB or Elastic Search but...

I want developers/data scientists to be able to spin everything up on their development machine and machine learning models are often insanely RAM intensive.

So I want something I can use that keeps its memory/cpu footprint low, it doesn't need to be performant since its for development and the production instance can use something better.

Over the years, I've seen a lot of confusion about JavaScript function invocation. In particular, a lot of people have complained that the semantics of this in function invocations is confusing. In my opinion, a lot of this confusion is cleared up by understanding the core function invocation primitive, and

Their development Scalene, an open-source tool for dramatically speeding up the programming language Python, circumvents hardware issues limiting computer processing speeds. A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-wi

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.

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I use a bit weird development setup. Since VisualD, the official plugin for VS adding D language support, does not have dub support (which D's official package manager, and without it a lot of things get very hard to do, like dependency management), I have to use VSCode as my main code editor, build my code in command line, then load it in an empty VS project set up for C++ development.

However, since the latest update, VS2022 broke completely. I previously had issues with the option to break on every D exceptions disappearing, now I don't even have that. When it hits a breakpoint or an exception, the debugger does not show the local variables, instead it has a "wait..." sign that looks like a button (but is unclickable), and the executable of VS grows until either crashes my Windows, or I stop either the debugging or VS. Probably would still work if I used it normally, but then I have to stop using dub as a build tool, and manage dependencies manually, which is a nightmare with bigger projects and dependencies having their own dependencies.

Currently I have some luck with x64dbg, but so far it's not the most ideal solution. Almost all tutorials for it is about reverse engineering software without any available source code, and I need it as a development tool instead. It seems to load my symbol file and show call stack, but not local variables or source code. D should be able to work with most debuggers developed for C.

IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes: Humans are still "in the driver's seat," but it could make code more modular.
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Software is complicated. Machine learning, microservice architectures, message queues... every few months there's another revolutionary idea to consider, another framework to learn. And underneath so many of these amazing ideas and abstractions is text.

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Adding abstraction to your code always feels like the right thing to do. But when you add abstraction, you add coupling which can often undermine the value of the abstraction.

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