The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Developing with Docker (the right way) (News)
Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.
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What up, nerds? I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, October 28th, 2024, but recorded on Sunday because Adam and I will be manning the booth at all things open when this episode drops. Okay, let's get straight in to this week's news. Developing with Docker the right way. Daniel Quinn has used Docker differently at every job he started in the past 10 plus years.
It's time for some consensus, he thinks, on how to do it right. The argument here is that the use of Docker and various tooling shouldn't be unique to any particular project, that this sort of thing should be so standard it's both common and boring to even think about.
My experience tells me that we are not there yet, though, so this is just me making the case for what I think constitutes a good setup." Daniel's major argument is that if you're using Docker, you aren't writing software anymore. Instead, you are building immutable images. Quote, End quote.
Check out his article, link in the newsletter, for why he thinks the 12-factor app is uniquely suited to Docker-based systems. Ghost TTY 1.0 is coming. Mitchell Hashimoto says his new terminal emulator will be publicly released this coming December. Quote, End quote. Why Ghost TTY?
Mitchell felt that the existing terminal emulators pushed an unnecessary choice between speed, features, and platform native GUIs. With Ghost TTY, Mitchell says pick any three. And since Mitchell previously built a publicly traded company around his open source work, This note on finances is worth highlighting.
Quote, Ghost TTY is a passion project for me and I have no plans to pursue any sort of commercialization of the project. Ghost TTY will be released as an open source project under the MIT license. Learning to learn. Maybe we spend too much time learning. and not enough time learning how to learn better. Here's Kevin Lee. Quote, End quote.
If you want to take your learning process more seriously, maybe try this suggested optimal learning flow. One, very quickly identify what the foundational knowledge is. Two, build a personal curriculum to become an expert and avoid the trap of the expert beginner. Three, sprint hard the first 15 to 20 hours to impress initial memory, then decelerate to a more regular pace.
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