Best of Better Programming — September 2022

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   Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri, A Rust-powered Backend Framework

   Electron is a Rust-powered Backend Framework paired with a React frontend to offer an awesome browser-less experience. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms — using virtually any frontend framework in existence. For completeness, you can find the entire code base for my community project on my Gitlab.

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   Solution Architecture: Docs-as-code

   In an age where systems and technology are rapidly evolving, our approach to design and documentation remains stagnant. Documenting the AS-IS architecture is difficult, but not impossible, says Yam Yam Architect.

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   How to Outperform a 10x Developer

   Focusing on the product trumps coding skills every time, not the least because sometimes not writing new code is the best decision for the product. Writing great quality code fast is a small fraction of all the tasks required to bring a system to production.

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   Stop Hiring Software Engineers

   Product engineers (PEs from now on) are easily identifiable in the interview process. Some reservations, anyway, end up in manual mode (eg. There’s no more availability, the price increased, etc. so you need an operator to take care of that.

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