London based software development consultant
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There is Whisper IME.
codeinabox@programming.devOPto
Programming@programming.dev•I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrongEnglish
3·5 days agoThe author does make some good points about colours as visual cues, instead of just making things look colourful. I have to admit prior to reading this post, I always picked my themes on aesthetics, but it has made me think about colour as utility.
codeinabox@programming.devOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated CodeEnglish
10·13 days agoExactly but generative AI has exacerbated the problem
What is new is the scale of the problem being created as lightning-speed code generators spew reams of unread code into millions of projects
codeinabox@programming.devOPto
Programming@programming.dev•If Releases Are Experiments, What’s Your Hypothesis?English
3·15 days agoMy understanding is that an example of a hypothesis, is that users want a feature. The experiment is putting that feature in front of users, or performing user research, which which then allows you to validate if a hypothesis is true or not.
codeinabox@programming.devOPto
Programming@programming.dev•If Releases Are Experiments, What’s Your Hypothesis?English
1·15 days agoI am intrigued. Could you elaborate on this with some examples?
codeinabox@programming.devto
Programming@programming.dev•How to get started as a freelancer?English
1·26 days agoTo clarify, when you say freelancer, do you mean on a part-time basis? Or do you mean having a contract and working on a full-time basis for that client? Also, where are you based? I’m happy to give advice as a UK based contractor, who does a tiny bit of freelance work

















How does one measure code quality? I’m a big advocate of linting, and have used rules including cyclomatic complexity, but is that, or tools such as SonarQube, an effective measure of quality? You can code that passes those checks, but what if it doesn’t address the acceptance criteria - is it still quality code then?