Show HN: Developer First Engineering Metrics Engineering metrics for developers are becoming more popular and they going in a negative direction and I want to fix this with my developer first engineering metrics. Solutions like GitPrime (now Pluralsight Flow), GitHub Insights (formerly Gitlaytics) and other similar solutions are giving non-technical people a false sense that you can easily roll up metrics to quantify developer productivity. In the "The Space of Developer Productivity" [1] that was posted on HackerNews this week, it goes into great detail to explain that there are a lot of variables at play. In the business world, business intelligence is widely accepted and business leaders do not assume business insights will come easily. People are actually hired to generate business intelligence reports and I'm hoping this type of attitude is adopted for developer insights as well. There are a lot of variables at play, and it should be expected that leaders will need to work for meaningful developer insights. Right now, I'm still early in my research, but I believe impact based metrics is something developers and leaders can get behind. Rather than repeat what I've written before in another thread, you can learn more about my thoughts on impact based metrics at https://ift.tt/3110bAY Like the saying goes, a single line change can take more work than a hundred, and that is ultimately what I want GitSense (my solution) to be able to show. If you want to play around with GitSense, you can do so at https://ift.tt/3lxN5oq and if you want to install it, you can find the instructions at https://gitsense.com [1] https://ift.tt/3bKUCwJ March 20, 2021 at 12:50AM
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application. It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits. OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later. Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://ift.tt/2g8lasH and https://ift.tt/3nR9PzS shows what was recently released. [0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interestin...
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