Donn Felker

242 – Kotlin Code Formatting with ktfmt and spotless

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about one of the age old bike shedding topics – code formatting, and how you can solve it with automation and tools.

Code formatting can turn into an endless debate amongst peers and teams, and what Kaushik and Donn have found is that this can be delegated to a tool and automated. Freeing you and your team of having to worry about proper indentation, bracket placement, etc. By relying on a well defined tool and some automation you can clean your code up, make it much more uniform and easier maintain.

We talk about ktfmt, a Kotlin code formatter that was released by Facebook. We dive into ktlint, detekt and more. We also dive into spotless which can help you by integrating ktfmt into your gradle build pipeline.

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241: The Pressure to Ship. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the fear of shipping, some impostor syndrome and how it contributes to uncertainty and doubt in your capabilities as a software developer.

Recently Donn embarked on a mission to come up with an idea and ship it within 24 hours (which he did do). The end result was a net benefit of confidence, speed and skill acquisition. This helped reduce any doubt, uncertainty and ultimately fear of shipping a product faster.

That’s what this conversation is about … how to doing a project like the 24 hour MVP can remove fear, uncertainty and doubt and help you ship your side project/products faster.

Donn’s Git Course

Need to learn Git? Donn has the course for you. In this FREE course you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to start working with Git everyday. Watch it here.

AndroidJobs.IO

Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
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Software Freelancing

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@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn’s YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or kau.sh/blog or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

240: Important Kotlin Constructs

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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about 5 new-ish Kotlin constructs that you might not be aware of.

The constructs that they talk about are:

fun interface (SAM – Single Abstract Method), and they juxtapose them vs function types
type alias
import alias
value class
data object

You’ll learn what they are, how you can use them and when or when you might not want to use them, and more. We hope you enjoy.

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Donn’s Git Course

Need to learn Git? Donn has the course for you. In this FREE course you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to start working with Git everyday. Watch it here.

AndroidJobs.IO

Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
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Software Freelancing

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@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn’s YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or jkl.gg/b or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

239: Require PR Reviews with CODEOWNERS

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In this short episode, Donn talks about the CODEOWNERS file and how it can help you ensure teams review the code that they are responsible for before merging.

The CODEOWNERS file is a file that you drop into the root of your project (or into the /docs or .github/ directory) that tells GitHub (or whatever git host you’re using) to require a review for any code changes that match the patterns as defined in the CODEOWNERS file. You’ll specify a matching pattern and users, or teams that own that pattern of files and they will be required to review the PR before it can be merged. This helps prevent unwanted changes to files that may or may not be owned by one team or another. This is useful as teams grow larger and need more control over the changes in their application codebase.

Donn’s Git Course

Need to learn Git? Donn has the course for you. In this FREE course you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to start working with Git everyday. Watch it here.

AndroidJobs.IO

Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
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Software Freelancing

Contact

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn’s YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or jkl.gg/b or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

238: How to Land a Job (if you got laid off or if you’re just starting out)

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In this episode, Donn talks about the tips and tricks he’s used over the last 20 years of consulting, freelancing and working full time to find jobs and new opporftunities. We’re hoping some of these tips help those affected by the recent tech layoffs.

These are tips that Donn still uses to this day. They work wonders to help you land a job quickly when you do them.

The tips:

Update your LinkedIn Profile and Build a Resume with the LinkedIn Resume Builder
Set your LinkedIn status to “Open to Work” via the “Open to Work” feature on LinkedIn
Directly Reach out to Recruiters you know or have interacted with
Manual Discovery: Visit various companies career pages and job board and apply directly

Ancillary Tips to Boost Your Chances of Landing a Job:

Blog about the technology you’re looking to get a job in
Create a demo app or an app you can use to showcase your talents and put it on GitHub
Record a How To Video and post it to YouTube showing how to do something, such as a tutorial
Record/Start a podcast or reach out to hosts of other podcasts and offer to share some deep knowledge you have, or even talk about soft skills, etc
Speak at local user groups or conferences (where you don’t need to worry about travel and costs, just show up and speak)

Donn’s Git Course

Need to learn Git? Donn has the course for you. In this FREE course you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to start working with Git everyday. Watch it here.

AndroidJobs.IO

Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
AndroidJobs.IO

Software Freelancing

Contact

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn’s YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or jkl.gg/b or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.