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Weekend Dev Puzzle

Some time between 2021-22, I ran a list of puzzles designed to push developers into developing a better understanding of the technologies they use on a day to day basis. Each puzzle is designed to be fun, provocative, and short.

This is a complete list of those puzzles. Each link takes you to the tweet where I first posed the problem. If you like any of them, please feel free to share with others.

Edit (2024-01-27): Adding other puzzles to this 2024 onwards. Criteria:

Problem statement should be understandable by most in s/w tech, even if the ability to figure it out may not be.
Thinking about the problem should lead to clearer understanding of some foundational concept.
Should be short.
Should be fun to ponder over.

Read Shape Up by basecamp on a kindle / reMarkable / eReader

Basecamp's new book Shape Up is now available online (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) to read page-by-page.

There is a .pdf version, but that's not the best format for Kindle / other eReaders. Instead, we can convert the page-by-page into an eReader friendly format.

Part 1: Convert to a single page

NOTE: This has only been tested on Chrome

This proposal is not longer active. Context: https://twitter.com/siddharthkp/status/909818777314902016

Stuff I wish I'd known sooner about service workers

I recently had several days of extremely frustrating experiences with service workers. Here are a few things I've since learned which would have made my life much easier but which isn't particularly obvious from most of the blog posts and videos I've seen.

I'll add to this list over time – suggested additions welcome in the comments or via twitter.com/rich_harris.

Use Canary for development instead of Chrome stable

~~Chrome 51 has some pretty wild behaviour related to console.log in service workers. Canary doesn't, and it has a load of really good service worker related stuff in devtools.~~

For me the perfect developer (if there is such a person) has these qualities:

Friendly: is respected and liked by all they work with and are always approachable (even in times of stress)
Humble: has great humilty and is not driven by ego
Calm: doesn't get emotive within discussions (including discussions that are both in their favour and those that aren't)
Understanding: appreciates that business requirements do change regularly and that there are no perfect scenarios; so is able to adapt to problematic situations in the appropriate manner
Agile: recognises when they are potentially moving down a rabbit hole/time sink/yak shave and will successfully re-evaluate the situation and refocus their attention
Patient: appreciates that no dev is born equal and so varying soft/practical skills will be encountered
Experienced: has a wide ranging skill set with relevant practical experience and most importantly realises the fundamentals of simple code design and recognised patt

Comprehensive Introduction to @ngrx/store

By: @BTroncone

Also check out my lesson @ngrx/store in 10 minutes on egghead.io!

Update: Non-middleware examples have been updated to ngrx/store v2. More coming soon!

Table of Contents

	# THIS LINUX SETUP SCRIPT HAS MORPHED INTO A WHOLE PROJECT: HTTPS://OMAKUB.ORG
	# PLEASE CHECKOUT THAT PROJECT INSTEAD OF THIS OUTDATED SETUP SCRIPT.
	#
	#

	# Libraries and infrastructure
	sudo apt update -y
	sudo apt install -y \
	docker.io docker-buildx \
	build-essential pkg-config autoconf bison rustc cargo clang \

	# Note: this is not a fully functioning script! You will need to edit paths and other variables manually and it's adviced to run each command manually one after another

	# install dependencies
	# http://www.securitylearn.net/tag/deep-analysis-of-itunes-backup/
	sudo ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' easy_install pycrypto
	sudo easy_install M2crypto construct progressbar

	# clone the decrypt tool source code
	# hg stands for mercurial
	hg clone https://code.google.com/p/iphone-dataprotection/

	# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
	export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/jpenuchot/node_modules/.bin:$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH

	# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
	export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

	# Set name of the theme to load. Optionally, if you set this to "random"
	# it'll load a random theme each time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
	# See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
	ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
	<title>JS Bin</title>
	<style id="jsbin-css">
	* {
	box-sizing: border-box;
	}