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Out of curiosity: do you know why they pay for it themselves instead of asking their company to do so?


Because not all "developers" are developers in their day jobs. I'm personally a sysadmin most of the time, and I do my own R&D (mostly academic, but novel).

Some tools I like are not free, and I buy licenses by myself.


Cause many developers have personal projects they cant use company resources on


The rich ecosystem, the amount of developers experienced with it, ease of deployment and maintenance


Kinda applies to anything (Ruby, Python, Rust, Java, Javascript, ...)


Thanks! I'm the author of the post and creator of the video :) Appreciate the kind words.


It is tidy and efficient. One question: Are you saying “docblocks?” I’ve never heard of this.

Thanks!


Yeah, doc blocks. It's a name that originated within PHP a long time ago: https://docs.phpdoc.org/guide/guides/docblocks.html


Thanks. I haven’t used PHP since 2011 or so.


Hey, I'm the author of the post. A while ago I made a video where I built a small but serious hobby project in PHP with Laravel. It was a five hour recording, but I condensed it into a commentated 20-minutes timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtVkDh9RGw

If you don't have the time to watch it, you can also check out the open source code of that project: https://github.com/brendt/aggregate.stitcher.io

I still work on it, and I'd say i's a pretty accurate representation of a standard Laravel application.


Which leads me to start to think if there is a way to make timelapse videos that filter out some of the too quick movements, like windows and dialogs opening ... to make you mostly see how the code grows. App idea perhaps? :)


You could probably use GIT commit history as a data source?


I have, just started using it today actually. It's an RSS reader, but one where people can suggest new content to me as well: https://aggregate.stitcher.io/


I've made a Dutch podcast about my first five years being a professional programmer at a web agency: clients were blatantly lied to, colleagues were pressured into doing all kinds of unethical stuff, I considered quitting programming altogether after a couple of years — it was a wild ride

I made it into a podcast because I wanted to practice my editing skills, but it was also kind of therapeutic being able to talk about all this. So I don't care whether there's a huge audience. Creating the podcast was a goal in itself, which I achieved :)

If you're Dutch and want to give it a listen, here you go: https://stitcher.io/de-job


This study was cited by Mozilla a couple of years ago when they introduced their dev console redesign (https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/09/11/developer-tools-...)


I’m the author, and I think you’re partially right.

This article wasn’t done (and I’m still going to finish it, a “looking forward” section is missing)

I published it to get some feedback from the occasional reader, which I do more often. You can see I haven’t tweeted or posted it anywhere, I wanted to wait a couple of days still; so it’s a little unfortunate it got picked up here so soon. Of course I’m happy with the positive reception overall, but I agree that it’s not done yet.

On the part of self promotion within my own content: that’s just the way I’ve been doing it for years. I don’t feel guilty about mentioning other things I’ve made that I’m proud of and what I believe are high value as well. So on that part I don’t agree.

I do appreciate the overall feedback though, thanks for taking the time to share it


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