Tubefilter: Roblox hikes developer earnings by 42%–but only if they make games aimed at adults. “Roblox is quadrupling down on chasing adult gamers–and rewarding developers who make games appealing to the 18+ crowd. This topic cropped up a lot in March. First, longtime Robloxer KreekCraft posted a video saying he’d poured $100K (so far) into building his own Roblox studio that would make […]

This is the best book-introduction I've ever read. "The Creative Act" by Rick Rubin, is a beautiful book that everyone should read. Not just artists, but #softwaredevelopers too, and so on.

"To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before. It could be a conversation, the solution to a problem, a note to a friend, the rearrangement of furniture in a room, a new route home to avoid a traffic jam."

The Register: New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects. “Open source developers may also be fortunate enough to receive contributions from individuals, companies (when not passing the buck), and government-sponsored initiatives like Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund. But OSE aspires specifically to build a big pile of cash – an endowment – that it will dole out […]

Fuck me, the Stack Overflow beta is *horrible*.

Question pages look like a bastard mix between Reddit and ChatGPT.

The answer text area is auto-focussed and hijacking browser shortcuts.

There is no visible separation between question and answers.

https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions

https://beta.stackoverflow.com/stack-content/questions/79895829/altering-varchar-length-on-partitioned-tables-in-postgresql-causes-index-recreation-why

#stackoverflow #stackexchange #softwaredevelopers #softwaredevelopment

New 📚 Release! Sustainability for Java Developers: Towards an Understanding of Sustainable Java Software Development by Geertjan, Frank Delporte, et. al. #books #programming #java #softwaredevelopers

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/sustainabilityforjavadevelopers

I wasted an hour of my time to deal with a Github issue that was, it turns out, at least partially LLM-generated. User is posting an issue for platform A while, when digging deeper, it turns out they're actually running platform B.

So I asked them politely to stop using ChatGPT for their comments, because they contain bullshit.

Next comment starts with “Good catch, and sorry for the confusion.”

So issue closed 🤬

https://github.com/robertklep/dsm7-usb-serial-drivers/issues/154

#opensource #softwaredevelopers #softwaredevelopment

I guess the magic words to silence people that say "it should be easy to implement this feature” are “Feel free to issue a PR”.

Shuts them up every time… 🙄

#opensource #softwaredevelopers #softwaredevelopment

Stanford University course, The Modern Software Developer (CS146S): https://themodernsoftware.dev/

#softwareengineering #softwaredevelopers #course