dev What ChatGPT and other AI will really change in the long run Hey, long time no see. I never thought that having a 1 year old baby would take time. Guess what? It does! :) But I finally got some time to write this new post. And I wanted to talk, once again, about ChatGPT and other AIs. I still believe that ChatGPT
dev Will ChatGPT eliminate the developer profession? This is a question I have seen a lot in recent days, and my answer is a resounding NO. In fact, ChatGPT is an extraordinary tool for developers. In the past few weeks, I have used it to: * write acceptance criteria, * generate unit tests, * avoid reading massive documentation to find
dev For all those devs who claim to have tested Today was another bad day... another bug in production. But of course, when we asked the developer that introduced the bug... Well, he was adamant that he tested his code. So I was inspired to create a meme that ended up being... the perfect one to send to developers when
dev The 9 rules for writing good Unit tests Hello! In the last months, my team and I have been working a lot on adding and improving our unit tests. But at some point, I realized that the main rules to master in order to write good unit tests were not always followed... So I thought that a little
dev Ionic vs Native vs Hybrid I did a lot of research about that topic a few years ago. Should I keep using Ionic? Should I switch to native apps? Should I start working with an hybrid framework like React Native or Xamarin? After 5 years of working with Ionic daily, I feel pretty confident about
dev How to force the light or dark theme on Ionic When I created my last app, "daily baby care" (an app for my wife and I, to track our 3 months infant meals & naps), I wanted to add a button in the app to force the light/dark theme. Something like this: So how would it work?
dev How to test your dark theme on Chrome When you create a new Ionic app, there is a dark theme by default. On most of my apps, I used to remove it by default. I'm not a big fan of the dark themes as they make everything harder to read... But on my last app, I
News Hello there Hey dear humanoids, how are you doing today? You're probably wondering what you're doing here, right? Let me introduce myself. I'm Tommy, aka. HowTommy. I'm a 36yo senior software engineer and tech animator, former Scrum Master, working in a dev company in