Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating, avoiding exploitation, learning Git, and loads more.

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Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.

Rabbit Escape

Box Stacker

Smolpxl Games

Adresilo

Sepia Search

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We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.

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Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.

Moodle

Mark’s Bash text adventure

Bash associative array examples

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Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?

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We dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t take external contributions. Plus printf() vs “proper” debugging.

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We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

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We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.

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More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard.

watt-wiser

1Password

Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime

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Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.

Some resources we mentioned

Andy’s videos – Rust, General

Lobsters

Amolith’s RSS feeds

Computer inside Terraria

Fasterthanlime

Self-Directed Research Podcast

Jon Gjengset

Jon Gjengset – YouTube

DevConf – YouTube

MEAP Catalog

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