Boost your productivity by engineering your engineering tools!
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Claim: treat dev tooling as production software and ship a real CLI that saves context switches. Built a native CLI called red that integrates Azure DevOps, Splunk and monitoring, lets you create or open a PR in one command, provides Kotlin, Quarkus, PicoCLI, GraalVM native binaries, dynamic autocompletion, and simple IntelliJ and Alfred frontends. Deployed internally at Rabobank and adopted by other teams, released as open source with Homebrew install, still beta with some plugin wobbles but demonstrably faster and more pleasant than scattered scripts and aliases.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Engineering productivity tools
- 1:49Daily struggle with tools
- 4:17Current solutions limitations
- 6:00Introducing red
- 8:28Live demo: red PR features
- 13:42Technical implementation
- 18:19Live coding: Quarkus & Pico CLI
- 27:34Native CLI with GraalVM
- 30:06Convincing Rabobank stakeholders
- 36:02Internal tool to open source
- 41:23Key takeaways
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