danjac

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by danjac 5y ago
I'm not sure it's so much about fetishizing, and more about realistic expectations around software development in larger teams. If you are the sole developer working on your own site - be it a side project/hobby/labour o
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by danjac 5y ago
A good habit when writing unit tests is to use assertNumQueries especially with views. It's very easy even for an experienced developer to inadvertently add an extra query per row: for example if you have a query using only() to re
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by danjac 5y ago
> until Google abandons it Given Google's track record I'm not sure that's the most reassuring argument...
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by danjac 5y ago
Reminds me of the term "cosy catastrophe" (coined by British SF author Brian Aldiss): https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosyCatastrophe
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by danjac 5y ago
Or they just hire the guy they knew through their network. A lot of "how to beat the tech interview process" advice is about how to break down the door with a battering ram when you don't have the key.
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by danjac 5y ago
It feels more like there's a 20 year cycle - enough time for old hands to retire or move up into management so the new batch can repeat the same mistakes but with different platforms and technologies without learning what went wrong be
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by danjac 5y ago
Slippers does look interesting - not sure I like the idea of declaring components in a YAML file but otherwise it seems to address the pain points of components. Would be interesting to see how well it integrates with Django forms. I guess
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by danjac 5y ago
Maybe django-components, if you need something a bit higher level than plain include or inclusion tags: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components/
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by danjac 5y ago
Or maybe take stock of the complexity of the software running your business and figure out how much is tech debt, how much is long-redundant features, and how much is resume-padding and chasing trends.
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by danjac 5y ago
My daily driver is stock Fedora+Gnome. The only "tinkering" I've done on the desktop is switching dark/light themes and changing the wallpaper. Otherwise my tinkering is focused on my terminal tools needed for serious wo
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by danjac 5y ago
It kind of works for me when I'm tired at the end of the day and I don't want to make choices. So yeah, I'll watch that Caitlyn Jenner documentary or whatever, fine. It feels harder to find stuff on Netflix when I'm acti
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by danjac 5y ago
I looked briefly at Unpoly - it looks an interesting project, but htmx had all the features I needed and the developer was very responsive to questions and bugfixes. It also had good library support for Django (django-htmx). I also used Hot
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by danjac 5y ago
What's next? YouTube banning videos? SoundCloud banning music?
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by danjac 5y ago
I run a side project podcatcher site https://jcasts.io . As I don't have a lot of spare time and this isn't making money, simple+cheap are important factors, so I stick with what I'm familiar with and only adopt ne
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by danjac 5y ago
"Narrow entrepreneurism" could also be mom-and-pop stores that provide a need to a local community. A lot of apps fall into this category: the might be perfect for a small number of people, whether concentrated locally in one city
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by danjac 5y ago
Developers: I get to change my default external background image to tropical-island.jpg for a month
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by danjac 5y ago
> It was not really a trend, but rather an emergency measure that morphed into a desirable benefit. Do you have data to support this? Anecdotally (from own experience and tech workers I know) I feel that remote work has been growing stea
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by danjac 5y ago
Web developers get zero say in all this. I've been in the room when developers - and UX people - call out this crap. After all, regardless of the user experience, adding all the popups and analytics garbage and whatnot makes developers
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by danjac 5y ago
I wonder about Reddit's redesign. Was it a case of malice - we want to force everyone to download our native apps so we can track the users better, so we made our website as unpleasant to use as humanly possible - or incompetence - we
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by danjac 5y ago
That's because startups (by no means all, but far too many) are often run by people with very little experience (technical or business) and so they cargo cult their practices from the big players. They lack the acumen to filter and fin
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by danjac 5y ago
Something like Bootstrap is great when you don't need the custom design or you don't have a CSS expert available. For example, backend admin CRUD views and reports. It doesn't matter if it looks a bit staid or dated, the end
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by danjac 5y ago
This reminds me of the fate of Jews in occupied Holland in WW2. Prior to the war, religious affiliation was collected by the Dutch authorities for tax exemption purposes - perfectly benign and harmless. Those same records of course fell rig
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by danjac 5y ago
Yes, that's correct - by Max Hastings, who said of Johnson, "don't trust this man with your wife or your wallet". https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-...
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by danjac 5y ago
The Telegraph is essentially the mouthpiece of the British commercial property landlord classes, who have a vested interest in getting people back into the offices and shops in their portfolios. On an average day you'll notice multiple
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by danjac 5y ago
So is the US, it's like travelling back in time when you go over there and people still use checks and paper money.
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Of course some doctors are going to break their oath and do horrible unethical things, particularly in extreme situations such as wartime and under totalitarian regimes. But that's a dumb argument, you might as well say, well, people a
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by danjac 5y ago
It's probably more because Google has an almost pathological aversion to maintaining anything. You don't get the cool projects, raises and promotions by doing the journeyman work of maintaining, fixing bugs, listening to users and
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The podcast ecosystem pretty much runs off RSS (yes, bad actors like Spotify are doing their best to kill it, but the vast majority of podcasts use RSS).
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Efficiency often takes a back seat to Conway's Law.
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Brittle local development in from what I've seen is either due to another symptom of tech debt - an aging monolith with too many different build systems, dependencies and what have you that you end up with way too many Docker container

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