Sam Cooper

Copyright and Copy Wrong - field15 Copyright law is confusing—and full of myths. From "mail yourself a sealed envelope" (useless) to "fair use will save you" (it won't), misinformation is everywhere. Join Andy Hunt, co-founder of The P...

I know I have a bit of a writers' community on here among all the tech stuff so though I'd share this, should be a pretty unique opportunity to get some insight from industry legend: field15.com/copyright-an...

Scott Galloway on The Bulwark:

““The Gini coefficient, zero means everyone has the exact same amount. A hundred means one person owns everything. The French Revolution and Marie Antoinette was when they were at 82.

We hit 83 this quarter.”

What does ‘when’ return in Kotlin? Mixed Messages? Kotlin Brain Teasers bonus puzzle!

What happens when you use 'when' as the body of a 'map { … }' operation?

That's the topic of this week's fourth and final 🧠📚 Kotlin Brain Teasers puzzle:

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Try to guess the answer before you scroll down to read the full explanation!

Code sample with a refactoring from `runBlocking { }` to `suspend fun` in tests.

A benefit of upgrading to Spring Boot 4 for #Kotlin developers: you will be able to leverage JUnit 6 support for suspending functions to have cleaner tests.

Can a Kotlin class have no name? Nothing to see here! Kotlin Brain Teasers, Puzzle 18 of 23

"enum class"

Okay... enum class what?

That's the puzzle 😉

See if you can figure out the trick that lets this code compile 👉 sam-cooper.medium.com/can-a-kotlin...

And stay tuned for one last free sample 🧠📚 Kotlin Brain Teasers puzzle next week.

What does ‘throw return’ do in Kotlin? The Vacuous Boomerang! Kotlin Brain Teasers, Puzzle 16 of 23

People who follow me on here might have seen this Kotlin puzzler already, but in case you haven't:

sam-cooper.medium.com/what-does-th...

It's one of my favourite Kotlin tricks; I hope you enjoy it too! And stay tuned for another free Kotlin Brain Teasers chapter next week, as promised 🧠📚

Good morning.

A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.

That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.

Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

If I could give one piece of career advice to any engineer, it's: measure your impact. Make a note of usage and performance metrics before, during and after each big project. Cite them proudly in your resume/CV, performance reviews, job interviews, etc. Wish I had started doing this sooner!

What’s null + null in Kotlin? Something From Nothing? Kotlin Brain Teasers, Puzzle 1 of 23

I'm posting free chapters from 📚🧠 Kotlin Brain Teasers each week in January!

I've shared the code for this one before, but here's the full explanation, with more code examples and further reading suggestions 💡

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YouTube video by Dylan Beattie Somebody Told Me (The User Provider Should Use An Adaptor To Proxy The Query Factory Builder)

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Can I get this on a t-shirt?

Consider the possibility that communicating is the work, and coding is the interruption.

I want to find the programmer who wrote the code that generates that error message where the detail text is just "cloudflare" and shake their hand

My favourite part of the outage so far is the simple honesty of the error message.

"500 server error."

"Oh? What's the issue?"

"cloudflare"

News websites are going to start pre-writing "Cloudflare is down" articles the same way they prepare obituaries in advance for high profile figures

I'm seeing that exact same 500 error on a bunch of sites (LinkedIn, StackOverflow, Medium)

I don't think it's just Zoom... is CloudFlare down again?? 😬

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