Ben Halpern

Posted on May 26, 2019

Recommend a DEV post worth reading

#discuss

Let's dip into our reading lists and take a look 👀

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Top comments (12)

Ben Halpern • May 26 '19

I really want to boost this one:

What it's like working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

John Pham ・ 4 min read

#career

It was posted the other day, and is a really fun read.

There's a ton of buzz around what it's like working at big tech companies but not much on gems such as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This gets to the heart of it.

Sam Ringleman • May 26 '19

I am going to do a shameless plug here. I hope no one minds, but this is my first post on dev so I am excited and I think it is worth your time :)

How Testing Speeds Up My Workflow

Sam Ringleman ・ 7 min read

#testing #laravel #lumen #php

Mikhail Korolev • May 26 '19

I absolutely love this one. A lot of (not so) beginners in Rails mindlessly rely on Active Record queries without thinking of what's actually happening on a DB level behind those. This is a very important concept and I think Rails Guides should have a dedicated section about this, somewhere near the AR part.

Preventing Useless Database Hits

Molly Struve ・ 5 min read

#beginners #rails #ruby #performance

Tomislav Buljević • May 26 '19

I like this one:

The State Of PHP Today

SyntaxSeed (Sherri W) ・ 5 min read

#php #webdev #languages

Mostly because it debunks some of the myths.

Ben Halpern • May 26 '19

Nice, I don't keep up with PHP much and this seems like a perfect catchup. Bookmarked 👌

Dian Fay • May 27 '19 • Edited

A couple relatively recent posts that seemed to fly under the general radar a bit:

@samosborn 's look at Giorgio Agamben's theories of law and social belonging in the context of communities defined as application users is utterly delightful

States of Exception and how we conceptualize humans in code

Sam Osborn ・ 6 min read

#discuss #career #philosophy

And here's a tour of CMake's house of horrors courtesy of @slurpsmadrips

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About CMake

Isabella Muerte ・ 12 min read

#cpp #cmake #buildsystems #opensource

William J.N. Breuer • May 26 '19

I'm offering up a #solongagosunday pick, encouraging everyone to give Catherine a high five for her regex cheatsheet posted in January. I use regex all the time now, but it took me forever to get the hang of and her post was super helpful for me.