Phil McClure

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Next.js 15 RC Now Available I've made a short post with the highlights: https://lnkd.in/eCd5CPDP

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It's not all non-symbolic AI... I presented today to Accord Project Technology Working Group on recent enhancements to the Template Engine and how TypeScript expressions within templates are compiled and evaluated. Accord Project uses TypeScript over Concerto types (with Concerto also compiled to TypeScript) to provide type-safe logic/calculations for templates; ensuring that a wide array of programming errors are caught at template compilation time, not at runtime. #typesafety #soundness #typescript #templating #legaltech

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Why do I favour practices like developer testing, TDD, refactoring and continuous integration? It's to enable rapid & sustained evolution of production-ready software. The odds of delivering the right thing in a single pass are so remote that many iterations are likely required. And even when we hit the bullseye, it's almost always a moving target. Not least because putting software into an environment has a tendency to change that environment and the problems we need to solve.

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If anyone knows any devs - tag away please For a few years now we’ve been building out and using an amazing server provisioning and code deployment tool https://deploy.dev After an extensive 6 month program of rolling it out to Aero Commerce agencies, who all love it, we’re now making it public for the first time - whilst it’s been working in a commercial environment for years now we’re launching it in Beta for a lucky few devs / agencies we know and trust The story : After using combinations of forge and envoyer that didn’t do fully what we wanted, we built our own to provide the missing links. It’s been a real game changer for us in terms of productivity, simplicity and efficiency. You can provison, boot up and manage servers in numerous industry leading hosting providers at the touch of a button. Code can be centrally managed through the major repositories and deployed automatically or manually through our seemelss integrations. There is no charge for this to our friends or friends of friends whilst in beta and we’d love your feedback Just register at https://deploy.dev and have a play

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Does Screenshotbot save on build times? This was a question that surprisingly came up a couple of times at #dcbln24. It probably had something to do with the large number of platform and DevEx folk at the conference. In any case, the answer turns out to be "Yes". More specifically: You'll save 19% in build times on average, and 49% in build times in the P95 case. The savings come from avoiding re-runs when screenshots change. Read my blog post with the analysis, and I'd love to hear your thoughts: https://lnkd.in/eEh4zqkN

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Stop wasting your time 🤣 trying to remove milliseconds in #JavaScript. Instead, learn how to effectively manage epoch time in JavaScript by reading the following guide.

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If Klaviyo is a key part of your tech stack, it's worth making sure you're ahead of their Legacy API deprecation. If you're using the v1 or v2 API, you have until 30th June, 2024, to migrate to Klaviyo's new APIs. As you'd expect from Klaviyo, they're ahead of the game with regards to providing documentation and support for you and / or your developers / agency - link in the comments. It's also worth highlighting that version 2022-10-17 is already deprecated and hits end of life on 17th October, 2024. So if you're looking at this, you want to pick anything from version 2023-01-24 onwards - although I'd go with the most recent version you can in terms of not creating a further migration point within the next year. If in doubt, chat with your devs, agency or consultant. Drop us a DM if we can help. Worried? Fear not, there's no way you can be as anxious about this as Teddy (pictured) is about bird scarers...

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They told me I was mad..this I admit I am 😂 ... they said I couldn't write code... but what they didn't know was that I've been busy crafting something incredible for the past two years! 😜💻 Introducing SquaddlyHR: the HRMIS that's about to revolutionize HR management. 🚀 Check out the teaser video and see what the madness was all about! https://lnkd.in/dPvKz--h #HRMIS #SquaddlyHR #MadlyInCode #RevolutionizingHR #CodingJourney

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Hey all you amazing engineers - Check this out ⬇️⬇️⬇️ In a surprising twist, Jellyfish’s latest engineering management report has revealed some eye-opening trends in our tech world. A whopping 90% of engineers—from code wizards to DevOps believe their teams are key players in shaping business strategy. Yet, a staggering 66% of them have faced burnout in the past year. Talk about running on empty! 📉 But that's not all. Despite the recent waves of layoffs in tech, 60% of engineering managers and executives are waving red flags over a talent drought. They’re finding it tougher than ever to scoop up the qualified candidates they need. It seems like even the brightest minds need a bit of a recharge these days. 🌟💻 Check out the full scoop here! Jellyfish ThinkBIG https://lnkd.in/emrRBhDy

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🌟 Check in: searching for React Native/React engineering roles 📈 TL;DR; still going strong with optimism! (mostly) G’day! This iteration of the great hunt has been a bit drier than what I have experienced previously however, I remain optimistic and energised to find the right role where I can make a meaningful impact in an interesting problem space. Whats yo stats?! Weirdly the numbers align with that of a post during my last round of interviewing: ❌ Unsuccessful: 6 - Comprising of rejections, retractions and ghosting. it’s not you, it’s me (maybe :D). There is always something to learn from a failure - bank it and advance! Some will remain on my radar for future rounds when the timing is right. 🚀 Open: 11 - I am fortunate to be progressing with some interesting companies and excited to see where these go! What else ya been up to? - Joined further recruitment platforms; I am now testing the waters with haystack and wellfound (links in the comments). - Amended CV content and structure 3/4 times - Created a cover letter template - this seems more of a requirement than in previous rounds and I wanted something that stood out similar in appearance to my CV. - Studying - with each company employing different stacks and methodologies, there is much to brush up on. - I caught up with some peeps in a similar boat who are building exciting things for themselves - inspiring stuff! I may follow their lead. While this interview process is quite demanding, I am looking forward to taking some time to enjoy the content and inspiration from frontendnation, which runs today until the 7th. Is anyone else tuning in? let me know which talks you are looking forward to. If you would like to discuss opportunities, or a fellow engineer looking to chat through anything of interest, please feel free to reach out. That’s all from me, catch you on the flippity! #lookingforwork #opentowork #fullstack #JobSearch #SoftwareEngineer #CareerJourney #react #reactNative

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If you've been using git for a while, it's likely you've experienced the frustration of losing commits due to various reasons – perhaps a git reset --hard mishap or making changes in a detached HEAD state without saving your work in a branch. In this week's blog, we delve into "git reflog", a lesser-known git command that can save you from the headache of redoing lost work by helping you recover those vanished commits. Link in comments.

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MVPs shouldn't go to the bin, unless the business pivots to something else. Way too often I've seen agencies & devs building MVPs in a 'poor' way (and that's a nice way of putting it), because 'who cares, it will go to the bin anyway when you get PMF and fundraise'. I disagree. There's absolutely NO reason that your MVP should go to the bin, unless your business model or product change dramatically. And even then, a lot of boilerplate (like signup, subscriptions management, emails, etc) - can and should stay the same. If done right, that should be a given, with 0 extra effort on the dev side. If someone's quoting you to do a poor job, don't work with them. You can stay agile & lean (as a startup should) without compromising on quality, and forcing yourself to rewrite the next version of your app. When you're investing in something, especially at an early stage when money is tight, it's important to NOT buy garbage.

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Services like Checkly are so good they start to feel like an unfair advantage. Props to Tim Nolet and team, especially for getting OTel fixes pushed through with Vercel! If you're doing any amount of automated e2e testing it's well worth a look. #checkly #playwright #awesome

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Code readability: prefixes. If you've got a method which checks if a status is true or false, instead of calling it 'status', why not try 'isStatus' or 'isPending'? If you've got a method which checks if someone has replied, don't call it 'replied', call it 'hasReplied'. In my opinion, it's better to hint at whats being returned. Lots of micro-improvements like this make your code easier to read.

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I'm observing a team writing code as an ensemble without TDD. I am selfishly delighted in the confirmation of how valuable TDD is to me as I use it. The team is implementing a new function that's doing list of list manipulation and returning something. They are all over the place with naming things, creating objects, streaming, mapping, flattening maps, return object, variables, naming...so many squirrels. Too many squirrels to even really focus on "what's the simplest first thing we could do?" TDD is so much more than writing a test first. It's a framework that helps me focus, prioritize, structure, and order my thoughts. Test Driven Development is an immensely helpful design and focus tool. I should also note, that I am beginning of working with this team and meeting them where they are. #codelife #devlife #TDD #testdrivendevelopment #unittesting #designthinking #problemsolving #structuredthinking #focus #mindset #toomanysquirrels #codingchaos

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Today is day 4 of launch week 🚀 and we're shipping 'related resources'. https://lnkd.in/eJpEqUuS This gives you the ability to view related sessions, errors, logs and traces from any given resource on the page. We call this concept “cohesion”, meaning that all of your Sessions Replays, Logs, Errors, and Traces should link to each other. More here: https://lnkd.in/eZshffRg In general, the goal here is minimize clicks and searches, so we're migrating to slide-out panels so you can e.g. view related logs without even having to migrate from session replay! Hopefully this makes it even easier to get full context on your application.

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One of the topics that has appeared in a number of #umbraco #codegarden talks this year is sustainability. Helping guide and educate clients on how we can make their web applications more sustainable is becoming more relevant each year. The internet and the devices involved in the delivery and display, collectively result in huge amounts of carbon being released into the atmosphere. Whilst the precise percentage of global emissions can be debated, it is not debated that this will further increase with increased applications of AI. Rick Butterfield talked about the Umbraco.Community.Sustainability package that can help grade your Umbraco pages helping you make your website more sustainable. He also talked about the low impact manifesto, practical development measures that improve the impact of your pages. It was an interesting and thought provoking talk building on the one I saw last year at #umbracospark The important takeaway was that in making sites more green, you are almost definitely improving performance and reducing hosting costs at the same time. Being green, doesn’t have to cost the earth. Pun intended. #H5YR to Rick and the rest of the Umbraco Sustainability Team. #codegarden #umbraco Great State

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