I migrated an Ant project to Gradle last week, and oh boy, was that painful. I used AI to do a lot of the boilerplate, but then I had to polish out all the errors it made. And it made a lot. But still, writing all those build files would have been horrible without AI.

I used to utilize Arduinos, but since I tried an ESP32 I never looked back. Those fit my needs much better and come with all the connections I want. Especially in combination with home assistant.

I’m relatively new in my company and I’ve been hired to structurize and modernize the development. Project #1 I’m on, I’ve introduced bleeding edge things like pipelines with building, testing, etc., I’ve introduced renovate bot to keep us up to date, and I’ll introduce linting next.

They will probably kill me, but no way I’ll let them have > 2000 lines of code in one file.

Sometimes you spend hours looking for an error you just can’t find only to realize you’re looking at the wrong file. Or the right file on the wrong server.

I’m not Chris, but this is how I backend.