All my posts about developer experience.
Matthias writes that AI has shifted more of software development from typing to thinking, reviewing, and iterating. Nice reflection on how agentic coding, parallel worktrees, and voice dictation can slow individual features down while still increasing overall output.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
Geocodio shares practical advice on getting engineering teams to adopt AI tools like Claude Code, addressing the growing gap between eager adopters and skeptical engineers.
Read more [www.geocod.io]
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My Oh Dear co-founder Mattias Geniar was a guest on the WP Legends podcast. They talked about how we built Oh Dear over the past eight years, common misconceptions about monitoring, and how AI is changing developer workflows.
I fully agree (but I might not be totally objective here 🙂)
Read more [tnakov.dev]
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Adding fake() methods to your custom facades in applications and packages can provide some nice DX and APIs.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate.
Read more [blog.puzzmo.com]
– clig.dev
Good naming, consistency, clear communication, and discoverability. These are things that do not only apply to command line programs, but to general development as well.
Read more [clig.dev]
Jujutsu (jj) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google with a focus on DX.
Read more [v5.chriskrycho.com]
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Let's talk about Husky, a tool that automatically runs any number of commands whenever you commit or push. You'll never have to worry about forgetting to format, lint, or test before uploading code to the repo — Husky does it for you every time you run git commit or git push
Read more [tighten.com]
Communication is an absolutely critical skill for product development. But it's hard and it requires practice and feedback.
Read more [thunk.dev]
Some good tips for writing effictive, human-friendly documentation.
Read more [thenewstack.io]
A nice list of things to keep in mind when writing software or documentation.
Read more [leerob.io]
How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?
Here's a package that can help with that!
Read more [github.com]
These past few months, my team and I have worked on something that we think will be very usefull for PHP and Laravel devs.
At 14:30 CEST you can see me release it live in this stream on YouTube.
I've already shown our project to a couple of friends. This is what they said:
This is a really innovative and exciting project in a space that doesn't have many options.
— Jess Archer (@jessarchercodes) January 7, 2021
And with very promising Linux support in the pipeline too! 😍
We're definitely talking about a daily developer experience improvement! https://t.co/tDHgsn7NiG
For amateur developers only! https://t.co/srNgSM21ym
— Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) January 6, 2021
Get ready for something awesome! https://t.co/1nr5VbO4nY
— James Brooks (@jbrooksuk) January 6, 2021
I already had the chance to take a look at it. It looks very promising. I think you will like it :) https://t.co/viITNC8QSt
— Stefan Bauer (@stefanbauerme) January 6, 2021
If you’ve ever found yourself asking any of these questions and happen to use VSCode, maybe the new Inline Parameters extension will help you out!
Read more [liamhammett.com]
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
My buddy Frederick wrote an interesting post on why he always checks out the admin panel of an app instead of the code.
Read more [frederickvanbrabant.com]
JMac, the creator of Laravel Shift, has a few interesting ideas on how to make the framework better.
Every so often a revolutionary change is required. This provides a chance to revisit goals. One of the primary goals of Laravel is developer experience. And maintainability, freshness, and approachability all improve developer experience. So, with all this in mind here are the top five things I would change in Laravel.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Recently we've released v2 of laravel-event-projector. The package is probably the easiest way to get started with event sourcing in Laravel. In v2 we've introduced two "invisible" features that improve the developer experience: auto-detection of event handling methods and auto-discovery of event handlers.
Here's an interesting approach to work with env variables proposed by Marijn Huizendveld
Frameworks offer tools to parameterize environments in a variety of ways. But because of this configuration files of projects tend to get messy once projects are taken into production. Specifying purpose of the parameter within the name can help identify unneeded configurations. Making configuration explicit within the application layer can be even more helpful. Doing so eases refactoring and provides potential to improve the overall developer experience.
Read more [marijn.huizendveld.com]
In an article on his Medium blog, Jerzy Zawadzki wrote about the most important changes made in Symfony 4.
Internally, Symfony 4.0 is “just” Symfony 3.4 with removed depracations. But from outside there is a big leap forward. Most changes (from the installation process, directory structe through using bundles, to coding itself) were made to improve Developer Experience with the framework. Such system like Symfony, which can be used to create web apps as easily as to build other frameworks on top of it, must be complicated. But, as Symfony proves in new version, this complexity may be ‘hidden’ from the developer eyes.
https://medium.com/@zawadzki.jerzy/symfony-4-new-hope-dbf99dde91d8
