What good programmers worry about (Changelog News #109)

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Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that ‘flow state’ is very much a thing.

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1. What up, Waymo nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=changelog-news&v=WGwVnVr9y2Y

2. What good programmers worry about (00:00:54)

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/good-programmers-worry-about-data?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Toasts are a bad UX (00:02:24)

https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux?utm_source=changelog-news

4. ChartDB: a web-based database diagramming editor (00:03:10)

https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Supabase (00:04:02)

https://supabase.com/launchweek

6. Code review anti-patterns (00:05:37)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/quasiblog/code-review-antipatterns/?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Flow state confirmed by scientists (00:07:09)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/flow-state-science-creativity-psychology-focus?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:08:28)