Programming Tech Brief By HackerNoon

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/compose-drawing-mastery-part-1-the-drawscope-foundation. Stop nesting Boxes. Master the Jetpack Compose Drawing Pipeline to bypass layout overhead and render high-performance custom graphics like a Mobile Architect. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #programming, #android-development, #android, #compose-drawing, #drawscope, #canvas, #glitch-effect, #compose-drawing-pipeline, and more. This story was written by: @sergeyd. Learn more about this writer by checking @sergeyd's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Standard composables like Box carry a "performance tax" due to deep UI trees. By mastering DrawScope, you can "flatten" your UI and render directly to the canvas, bypassing unnecessary recomposition. This guide moves from declarative UI to the "Imperative Island," covering coordinate systems and density conversion. Learn to use drawWithCache to avoid GC jank and build a GPU-efficient precision grid using the Path API.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/code-smell-12-null-is-schizophrenic-and-does-not-exist-in-the-real-world. Programmers use Null as different flags. It can hint at an absence, an undefined value, en error etc. Multiple semantics lead to coupling and defects. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #programming, #technology, #software-development, #code-smells, #common-code-smells, #refactoring, #clean-code, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @mcsee. Learn more about this writer by checking @mcsee's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Programmers use Null as different flags. It can hint at an absence, an undefined value, en error etc. Multiple semantics lead to coupling and defects.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/google-calendars-secret-engineering-weapon-restraint. Google Calendar is a simple CRUD calendar app with a powerful REST API. The client is a masterpiece of restraint, with a simple frontend framework. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #google-calendar-and-node, #integrate-google-calendar, #software-architecture, #google-calendar-restraint, #restraint-google-calendar, #crud-calendar-app, #rest-api, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @tylerdane. Learn more about this writer by checking @tylerdane's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Google Calendar is a simple CRUD calendar app with a powerful REST API. The client is a masterpiece of restraint, with a simple frontend framework. The API is primitive, but the client can do whatever it needs to.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-think-like-a-data-systems-engineer-the-questions-that-save-you-later. Learn how engineers think about reliability, scalability, and maintainability—by asking the right questions early. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #system-design, #data, #learn, #big-data, #data-engineering, #data-systems-engineer, #data-intensive-applications, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @ayokunle. Learn more about this writer by checking @ayokunle's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Learn how engineers think about reliability, scalability, and maintainability—by asking the right questions early.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/write-symfony-commands-like-you-write-controllersfinally. Symfony 7.4 makes Console commands expressive and type-safe. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #symfony, #php, #php-development, #web-development, #software-architecture, #productivity, #programming, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @mattleads. Learn more about this writer by checking @mattleads's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Symfony 7.4 makes Console commands expressive and type-safe.