Новое интервью: Андрей Кузнецов, директор лаборатории FusionBrain в AIRI, один из создателей Kandinsky, кандидат технических наук. Смотрите на YouTube и на VK (76 минут). Помимо разговора об ИИ, обсудили самое главное: куда пойти молодому исследователю и как попасть в команду AIRI. Подписывайтесь на канал Андрея (@complete_ai) и на канал AIRI (@airi_research_institute). #наши

There are hundreds of books about project management, especially for software teams. I recommend reading only this one and ignoring all others: PMP Exam Prep by Rita Mulcahy (she passed away 14 years ago). This #book is written as a study manual supposedly helping you prepare for the PMP exam. Don't be confused: read it as a book about management, maybe even ignoring the parts related to PMP questions. Listen to the voice of common sense that is usually absent in Agile-ish management books. #book

Just published a new post on the blog: Advice for First-Time Open Source Contributors. It is supposed to help newcomers in open source projects — not to get lost with their first pull requests. My experience tells me that people keep making similar mistakes. #blog

Картинка из фильма Белое солнце пустыни (1970).

Sometimes it's necessary to test a Java class for its so called "thread-safety" — its readiness to accept concurrent requests from multiple threads and behave consistently. Not all classes are thread-safe. For example, LinkedList and HashMap are not. How do you know that your classes are thread-safe? I released together, a new tiny open source library that helps you make sure they are, by putting your Java object under stress — sending similar requests to it from different concurrent threads.

BTW, thanks to this new testing instrument, a bug was discovered in tojos, a pretty stable library that we've been using for a few years, inside the EO compiler.

A paper from Meta, recently presented at ESEC/FSE’23, says that in 2023, with the help of their toolkit named SCARF (not open source), they "deleted over 104 million lines of unused/dead code." Does the number sound reasonable to you, keeping in mind that in 2014 they've had just 17 million lines in their repository?

Собираемся записать новогодний 26-й выпуск черно-белого айти, с обзором главных новостей за ноябрь-декабрь, а также за весь год. О чем именно хотелось бы услышать анализ? Присылайте ссылки на новости.

It's a quote from my blog post about recruiters that I published nine (!) year ago. What changed since then? We still have recruiters. They still abuse the market exploiting our weaknesses. By the way, we have a group where you can show your resume to others and let them criticise it: @resumania (join and try!)

Let me remind you that if you are a fan of the "Elegant Objects" programming paradigm, you may add yourself to the list of fans at elegantobjects.org — just send a pull request and you will be there.

Can you recommend a technical YouTube blogger to subscribe to?

Let's start a new year with a new book. It will be about automated testing and should be finished by the end of January (25% is already done). If you want to be a reviewer of its draft (up to 220 pages), please fill up this form. I will expect your reviews no later than the end of March. Of course, all reviewers will get a free copy of the book, with their names mentioned in the Acknowledgement page.

Новое интересное интервью, с Денисом Димитровым, исполнительным директором SberAI. Он рассказал, как создается отечественный искусственный интеллект и как можно стать одним из участников этого процесса. Смотрите на YouTube и на VK (76 минут).

Понравился сериал Крылья Империи (2017) от Игоря Копылова. Он про революцию, любовь и смерть. Как оказалось, ни одна из этих женщин по отдельности не сделают мужчину счастливым. Однако, все втроем — вполне могут. #кино

В комментариях к этому сообщению приглашаю всех желающих прорекламировать свои айти вакансии на территории РФ и ближнего зарубежья. Ищете программистов, тестировщиков, менеджеров, исследователей, интернов — пишите, не стесняйтесь.

К старому Новому Году подарок вам, дорогие читатели: Elegant Objects vol. 2 в Москве, с доставкой по РФ и ближнему зарубежью, с автографом автора, то есть меня. Подробности и процедура заказа здесь (их всего 40 штук).

While preparing a lecture for the SQM course, I just stumbled upon an interesting 10-years-old study showing that "developers with higher experience tend to introduce most of the self-admitted technical debt." This means, I believe, that senior developers don't care about quality as much as they demand juniors to care about it. By the way, PDF paper you can find with this bot: @scihubot (I'm not affiliated).

Посоветуйте, пожалуйста, хорошее кино или сериал.

You know, I'm currently writing a book about automated testing (you see a fragment of it). Sometimes it's necessary to quote a webpage, like a blog post of a news article. Some URLs are pretty long and, because of that, look ugly on paper. We are supposed to use URL-shorteners, which usually are hosted services (not always free).

Long story short, I created my own serverless URL-shortener hosted on GitHub Pages: https://github.com/yegor256/jttu (short for "jump to the URL"). Works like a charm and costs $12/year for the domain name. Feel free to add your URLs or simply fork the repository and host on your domain.

The famous Clean Code by Robert Martin must be a starting point of any software developer who cares. It's fun to read, it's full of aggression towards bad code, and it's a trend setter. The #book is classic.

Семь пар нечистых (2018) от Кирилла Белевича, по повести Вениамина Каверина, с Юрой Борисовым и Мариной Ворожищевой — яркий, лаконичный, жестокий и правдоподобный боевик о мужестве и любви, как его производной, а не наоборот, как сейчас модно считать. #кино