The Valuable Dev - A Guide to Problem Solving
Tuesday Greetings, Valuable Developer
I hope you had a great month!
After many articles about CLIs and TUIs (like fzf and Vim), I’m coming back to the first principles of software development this month with an article on problem-solving.
A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples
A developer is, first and foremost, a problem solver: the code written is just the implementation of a hypothesis trying to solve a problem. That’s why having good problem-solving skills is primordial.
Resources
- Here’s an interesting interview of the creator of the cookie, discussing why it was developed that way, and the possible alternatives.
- If you’re interested how AI works, some folks reverse-engineered a bunch of them; you can find them in this repo.
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Here are some CLIs I found interesting:
- shell GPT allows you to use chat GPT directly in the command line.
- Similar to shell GPT, Copilot has an official CLI you can use directly in your shell to generate some scripts or command lines for example.
- If you always wanted to do diffs between two directories, dirdiff will fill you with joy.
- An interesting bash script for a snake game in less than 500 lines of code.
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See you in a month,
Matthieu