Hacker News with Generative AI: Developer Experience

Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out (lepiter.io)
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement.

Software Development, System Design, Developer Experience

22 points by r4um 39 days ago | 4 comments

How we made billing backendless (useautumn.com)
Typically, billing is a backend job and requires webhooks, state syncing, then passing the data to the frontend. We wanted to offer a more "out-of-the-box" experience when handling things like payment links, paywalls and up/downgrade flows, so we've spent a bunch of time thinking about how we can perform sensitive payment operations without needing to perform the "round trip" to the backend -- we think this is a simpler and better developer experience.

Billing, Backend, Frontend, Developer Experience, Payment Processing

43 points by ayushrodrigues 43 days ago | 41 comments

Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (venki.dev)
And yet these models hide behind the poorest developer experience in the market.

API, Google, Developer Experience

203 points by indigodaddy 55 days ago | 188 comments

Microsoft's Platform Engineering Guide (microsoft.com)
Learn how platform engineering teams can use building blocks from Microsoft and other vendors to create deeply personalized, optimized, and secure developer experiences.

Platform Engineering, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Developer Experience

5 points by azhenley 66 days ago | 0 comments

Why we ditched Next.js and never looked back (northflank.com)
At Northflank, we obsess over performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Web Development, Next.js, Performance, Developer Experience

28 points by decidertm 126 days ago | 15 comments

Framework Fatigue: The Real Reason Developers Get Angry About New Tech (raed.dev)
For a while, it felt like every day, a new JavaScript framework was announced. From Svelte stealing React’s thunder to Solid promising revolutionary performance, and Qwik reimagining how web apps load - all of these promise to be blazing fast and better than anything that came before.

JavaScript Frameworks, Web Development, Software Development, Developer Experience

43 points by thunderbong 157 days ago | 67 comments

Great things about Rust that aren't just performance (ntietz.com)
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit. I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in. There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.

Programming Languages, Developer Experience

195 points by vortex_ape 166 days ago | 228 comments

Ask HN: Fluent in go and Rust? Which one do you prefer and why? (ycombinator.com)
You should have done at least a full project in both, a bit more than just scratching the surface.

Programming, Go, Rust, Career Advice, Developer Experience

12 points by manx 195 days ago | 8 comments

PR process killing morale and productivity (blackentropy.com)
Code reviews are supposed to be about improving code quality and sharing knowledge, but when PR comments start hitting the hundreds, something is very wrong. I’ve recently come across a discussion where a new developer joined a team and faced over 300 PR comments on their first contribution. Most of it was stylistic nitpicking. This isn’t just unproductive, it’s outright toxic.

Code Reviews, Software Development, Developer Experience, Productivity, Toxicity

145 points by devslovecoffee 210 days ago | 216 comments

Documentation Is Product (langfuse.com)
Today, on Day 4 of Langfuse Launch Week 2, we’re highlighting an often overlooked but critical element of great Developer Experience: Documentation.

Developer Experience, Documentation, Software

8 points by JannikM 218 days ago | 0 comments

Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages (nolanlawson.com)
I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript that I’m reluctant to give up on.

JavaScript, Programming Languages, Performance, Developer Experience

168 points by todsacerdoti 250 days ago | 322 comments

Reclaim the Stack (reclaim-the-stack.com)
We spent 7 months building a Kubernetes based platform to replace Heroku for our SaaS product at mynewsdesk.com. **The results were a 90% reduction in costs and a 30% improvement in performance.** We also significantly improved developer experience with reduced deploy times and faster / more accessible tooling.

Kubernetes, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Developer Experience

496 points by dustedcodes 292 days ago | 321 comments

An unordered list of things I miss in Go (capivaras.dev)

Go Programming, Programming Languages, Developer Experience

155 points by todsacerdoti 314 days ago | 275 comments

80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding (shiftmag.dev)

Software Development, Developer Experience, Industry Trends

48 points by thunderbong 331 days ago | 85 comments

Developer experience: What is it and why should you care? (2023) (github.blog)

Developer Experience, Software Development, Trends

21 points by wslh 363 days ago | 15 comments

It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use (propelauth.com)