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Brilliant Makanju
Brilliant Makanju

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Automation Tools for Developers: Why You Need Them

so like, imagine you just shipped a feature right? And everyone tells you to tweet about it but then you realize your last 5 tweets got zero engagement except for that one reply from your college roommate asking if youre okay because you tweeted at 3am again. And now youre spiraling about whether anyone actually cares about your side project or if youre just screaming into the void while pretending to build in public. Which is weird because building in public is supposed to help but it just makes you feel more isolated somehow? anyway where was i going with this... oh right, automation tools. literally the best thing since sliced bread for devs. no cap. you can automate everything from social media posts to code reviews. and the best part? it frees up so much time for actual coding. like, remember when you used to spend hours writing commit messages and formatting them just right? yeah those days are over. with automation tools, you can just focus on writing code and let the tools handle the rest. and dont even get me started on github workflow optimization... thats a whole different can of worms. but basically, automation tools are a must-have for any dev who wants to stay sane and actually get work done. idk what im talking about sometimes but...

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