Habits of Efficient Developers

Even if a 10x developer may be a myth, we all know of some developer that just shines and is able to do more in less time, and seems to do it without effort! Even if may seem that you need some kind of special natural talent, it is not.In this session by Daniel Lebrero you can learn what you need to learn to become a more efficient developer.
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[@jumabekalikhanov5237]

Conclusion he made in the slides: 1. Focus a. disable notifications b. pair program c. rest d. one thing at a time 2. Master your IDE a. Functionality b. Shortcuts c. Pair Program 3. No menial work a. Write programs b. Avoid GUIs c. Automate testing d. repeatable dev env - Docker 4. Fast Feedback a. TDD b. REPL c. Pair program

[@1234abcd12344]

Thanks you saved me 37+ minutes

[@bronsonschnitzel7493]

Thank you sir for saving my time

[@Yetipfote]

I think you forgot "timebox tasks" 14:20

[@antuancaraballo9691]

I screenshot it, thanks for the summary!

[@melfire7677]

Merci pour le résumé!!!

[@andersbodin1551]

Just dont write any bugs, you end up saving so much time that way

[@unfriendly3255]

That's impossible for us you know buddy

[@2Dimples4U]

Just don’t write any code. Saves you from bugs, writing code, and probably having to show up to work. Win/win lol.

[@jayjaayjaaay94]

Or fail fast, so you know what's wrong on the system.

[@kademo3258]

@@unfriendly3255 It is a joke you know

[@lacascadaobregon]

It’s obviously a joke guys

[@matthewstaton6810]

1. Disable all notifications.... Employer: *ARE YOU NOT GETTING MY EMAILS?*

[@samitechcookie9758]

:D

[@MuhammadAli-fn5kv]

hahaha

[@StarlasAiko]

eMails are read three times a day: Before you start work; when you start your main break before leaving the desk; after you finished the work for the day. If it is so urgent that it can't wait for one of those three points in time, my employer can feel free to come to my desk and telk to me directly.

[@xXZian6Xx]

Pair programming is basically finding someone who knows more than you and letting them teach you

[@ezracramer1370]

ok, and? There is always someone "who knows more than you", and no one lives forever. If you as a senior Dev dont plan to sit on your ass until you die at your workplace, passing the knowledge is probably good idea dont you think?

[@xXZian6Xx]

@@ezracramer1370 lmao u must be fun at parties

[@faux4780]

@@xXZian6Xx agreed but, i mean, he's not wrong..

[@mphomathabathe8558]

some people don't understand this, most people think pair programming is contributing equally to solving a problem. I understand you shouldn't just sit and not code/think but ask questions about certain things Following up on those questions is what pair programming is. Being Taught by another person.

[@abdellahramadan9001]

Great talk. The notification is very important and I have listened to this talk many times just for it. It's my greatest flaw and I am trying to cure it. Thank you for this.

[@astrahcat1212]

What he's also talking about is self-discipline. Art or a practice of any kind is a discipline, treat it like karate practice.

[@prateekpandey4370]

Awesome tips and tricks. Really helpful. Thanks for sharing your experienced knowledge.

[@brandonvincent9516]

jq can do much more than pretty-print. It can run queries on the JSON to extract fields and much more. No more grepping or cutting to extract fields. :)

[@ragnus78]

Thank you

[@rudolphhock1155]

9:48 I didn't know code could be written on the command line in Bash. I learned something.

[@rostislavsvoboda7013]

13:27 yea of course everybody can do it. Definitely! [EDIT] 13:50 "What did I get wrong?"

[@akshay-lifeofayogi321]

yeah lol , it bounced off my head . --_____--!

[@nickrameau938]

Haha, this is why you should pair-program often. If he had someone else with him, they would have figured it out together in an instant... or at least, faster than usual.

[@Yetipfote]

33:30 that notification at the end was golden 😁

[@x9466x]

it was actually white with black text

[@philipps258]

Great summery! Deserves so much more devs to see that and implement!

[@konradjurk101]

jq is not only for formatting but also for extracting values from json

[@prabinlamsal74]

VIM vs IDE deserved to be answered.

[@Yetipfote]

15:03 I whole heartedly disagree. UIs can speed you up A LOT! That's why IDEs exist. Otherwise we could all code with vim and everybody would be happy. E.g. take IntelliJs git integration: when I want to rebase my branch onto main: UI: 1. I click the "fetch all" button 2. in the git history UI I right click on "origin/main" and in the up coming context menu I click "rebase 'my-branch' onto 'origin/main'" 3. I now can resolve merge conflicts via the 3-way-merge UI including the incredible helpful "resolve automatically" button in IntelliJ! terminal: 1. I type in "git fetch" 2. I type in "git rebase origin/main" 3. I now have to manually and awkwardly go through the code in my terminal and resolve everything step by step First way is much much faster objectively.

[@jww0007]

it also means not using a mouse to click a button rather than shortcuts

[@ivanpartida7467]

If you learn vim you'll be faster than anyone that uses VSCode, that's a fact.

[@arsacode6145]

doesn't everybody code in vim? Oh!

[@osirusj275]

What if when you are learning a script language, u search documentation, it's not complete, even forum is not complete, then you have to trial and error, is there a more efficient way to go around this... I felt like doctors don't have this issue as what they learn is accumulate, whereas as programmers u may find the solution to an issue, but have forgotten the solution when u meet with the same issue and it take u hours to solve, as if you have not solve the issue before, a fair amount of time it feels like the knowledge in IT is very not memorable, as most solution is reference from Google search hence won't have the memory of past solutions, even when you have solve it several times... Not touching the knowledge for years can make u forget about it... And it's so frustrating coz I bet doctors remember about their jobscope

[@EminoMeneko]

Visual Studio telling us there are some updates... :)

[@_elkd]

VIM OR IDE? I mind that lady for skipping that question☹ Didn't he say we shouldn't use GUI? Unless if we are working with Java Platform😬

[@markoshivapavlovic4976]

Great talk. :)

[@yassirboumle801]

Awesome tips

[@paulfrischknecht3999]

couldn't be more right about avoiding guis... i see almost no point to soapui or postman, or all the sql database or cloud uis. The only benefit I see is that it offers some discoverability of the options which might be more efficient than reading the documentation. However, the tool should always tell you what underlying shell/curl/sql command it issues for you so that you can copy and automate it.

[@blackmage-89]

Oh man, the only thing worse than having no tests, it is to have tests that confirm the WRONG behavior.

[@omaryahia]

these are some useful points

[@danielroina6141]

Hi excellent talk :) Can I make a video with some of your slides on my channel ? thanks !

[@vladislavkovechenkov8473]

Could someone explain the REPL part? Is it something integrated into IDE or what? I've found the repl.io service, is that the same thing?

[@King-bx4ch]

Sorry for the late reply, but i don't know

[@musiclocate9357]

@@King-bx4ch 😂😂😂😂

[@babyblackspirit]

Repl is the interactive environment that many languages offer. Bash terminal is a kind of REPL (read evaluate print loop) since you can run command line code like he shows. But you would get the same with nodejs by typing node (or the console in the browser), or even python (once installed just type python and there you are!). Hope this is helpful although quite late :-)

[@alvinng1195]

why was vim/ ide the question ignored? :O

[@paulfrischknecht3999]

jq can already do what he did with grep... but eh maybe the skill to do it with grep is more transferable...

[@salma_techie]

my distraction is twitter... it actually stresses me up.

[@hassamali1117]

Solomon missed Vim / Even it was in questions..

[@arwinsyahputra1722]

Conclusion 33:02

[@TheCameltotem]

I don't agree on dont use GUI. It's way faster to rebranch, pull, push etc on a GUI than writing that typing that yourself.. It's all about what's faster and if the GUI is faster then that is better, fact.

[@arsacode6145]

a graphic interface faster than the command line? Then you don't know what you are doing, take time to ppractice and learn the command line

[@lararawf6100]

God bleass you

[@iaminterestedineverything]

for i *in* `cat...

[@arsacode6145]

I'e never made a for loop in bash and I thought that "for i" looked weird, what did he wrong exactly if you could explain?

[@re1konn]

​@@arsacode6145no "in"

[@tskn6547]

25::04 clojure FTW

[@johnsonisreal4530]

I did not agree with switching things off, as a developer is not about coding. But thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[@osta6212]

This will distract you if you trying to do multiple tasks at the same time

[@akshay-lifeofayogi321]

dafaq ? O.o ? 13:38 , its so easy lol

[@tifyspoondra7401]

as expected, under-reted

[@gaunterodimm3569]

Imagine this dodgy malaka being your manager...

[@andrejuntermanns7660]

this is way to fast spoken for me.

[@weekendwarrior3420]

What is this recent fashion of putting a word definition on screen and repeating it. We're not morons. That's how I know a talk is bloated.

[@Garycarlyle]

Well that was pointless.

[@priscaonyeagoro9263]

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