Weaknotes 5
Two successful kiteboarding sessions over the weekend! Had a fair bit of stopping and starting but eventually found the groove and wow, the feeling of being pulled over the water at high speed by the wind is like flying.
More …Apex Legends - Polished to a shine
Apex Legends is the latest in a genre nearing saturation, amongst “battle royale” shooters like Fortnite and PUBG. I was struck at just how “good” it felt immediately upon playing it, and after reading (Derek Yu’s twitter thread on “jank”)[https://twitter.com/mossmouth/status/1094742994236801025] I started thinking about viewing games through the lens of what they do new and what they do well.
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A week with a client looking into some of their software has had me thinking about complexity. Some older code uses Spring Boot, which was a simplified approach to the complexity of Spring Framework, which itself was a response to the complexity of J2EE. And yet it’s still a giant hulking piece of software to use, and while there may be 100 great features it provides, if we only need 2 of those I think it’s worth remembering that they don’t come free.
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First week at the new job is done. Three days of intros and meetings and trying to remember names, then two days on-site with a client. I always enjoy getting a new laptop and setting it up just right, but Friday discovered we’d have to work inside Windows VMs to be able to access this customer’s intranet. Oh well.
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The last week of joblessness is over - tomorrow is my first day at a consulting agency. Hopefully a year from now I’ll have met a lot of people in the Melbourne tech scene, will have learned a lot more (new languages and technologies?) and will be well on the road to becoming a senior developer.
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