Adam Tuttle first came into contact with makefiles (pronounced "make files") back in high school when compiling code. But, at the time, he didn't really understand what they were or how they worked - he was just a consumer. And, after high school, years went by in which he never gave makefiles a second thought. That is, until, one fateful conversation with Mark Mandel.
Mark explained that he used makefiles to create aliases for complex Docker commands. This piqued Adam's curiosity; and soon, Adam went down the rabbit hole! Today, he uses makefiles extensively for complex shell commands that he shares across his entire team: building containers, deploying code, generating Pull Requests - and, he's only begun to scratch the surface!
Today, the crew listens to Adam wax poetically about what makes makefiles so great. And, we get to ask him all sort of questions like: can they be used to create git aliases? Can this be used with npx commands? Is this like npm run scripts? And, why are you still using "boring technology" that was built in the 70s?
This week's sponsored shout-out is Wonder Woman Tech, whose mission it is to highlight, celebrate, educate, and amplify Women, BIPOC, and the Underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, Math (STEAM), and Innovation.
And finally, don't forget that we are going to have our first book club episode on May 12th for Clean Code by Robert Martin (aka, "Uncle Bob"). Feel free to read-up and follow along!
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122: Coding Hot Takes
121: Ben's Testing Tribulations
120: Freelancing with Nolan Erck
119: Potluck #7
118: Things We Should Be Doing But, You Know... Reasons
117: Champions of Truth
116: The State of Developer Conferences with Brian Rinaldi
115: Self-Care For Developers
114: Carol Got Laid-Off
113: Surviving A Layoff
112: Listener Questions
111: How To Learn Stuff Good
110: Measuring Impact At Work
109: Best of 2022
108: 2022 Year In Review
107: Through The Wormhole
106: A Cascading Cataclysmic Christmas
105: No Effort December
104: Alexa Make A Podcast About AI
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