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by jspash 5y ago
But don't underestimate the importance of reading as a skill! It's incredibly frustrating to see devs make stupid mistakes and spend time trying to get something to work when the answer is right in front of their nose. I see this
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by jspash 5y ago
What was the purpose of removing the leading "why" from the headline? It sounds more click-baity when stated as a fact. Keeping the full correct title with the "why" sounds more open and allows for nuance and discussion.
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by jspash 5y ago
Ah go on, go on, go on.
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by jspash 5y ago
Self-hosting and service 300kb for font files also seems excessive. Especially for a Helvetica clone.
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by jspash 5y ago
Absolutely agree. For a manager to say "Hey work on this feature and get back to me when you're ready" simply isn't managing. Any project no matter how big or small needs to start with an end in mind. Even if it's a
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by jspash 5y ago
The blue-eye effect looked to me like the first colourised movies where they hand-painted the actual film. It really put it me off. I don't know if they were meant to be "glowing" or if the colour just "bled" outsid
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by jspash 5y ago
Would you trust the word of a rancher who doesn't eat his own cattle? - Not Mark Twain
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by jspash 5y ago
It takes two?
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by jspash 5y ago
Some build techniques simply concatenate scripts instead of transpiling etc. And there is no telling how the previous script ended (or not). I seem to remember this is done to mitigate some issues that can arise from poorly written scripts
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by jspash 5y ago
I thought CSS was generated by JS these days? Apparently it was too difficult to remain its own thing.
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by jspash 5y ago
I've used 1PW since it's inception, happily moving whichever way they went. However, the latest iteration (electron?) is an absolute mess. I blinkin hate it! Shortcuts work, then they don't. Search rarely works. Multiple ov
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by jspash 5y ago
I remember struggling with this also. But if anything good came out of that era, it was Given.. When.. Then.. which is the template I still use to this day. It works for developers writing the specs, new devs reading them and surprisingly i
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by jspash 5y ago
I believe it's their name (and domain) that is holding them back. Sure, Google is a silly word but it's now ubiquitous. But "Duck Duck Go" simply doesn't roll off the tongue. It will make adoption much harder. The s
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by jspash 5y ago
We stopped doing A/B tests after I insisted that they all be done as A/A/B tests. Suddenly the "clear winners" weren't so clear after all. It confused and frustrated the marketing department so much that it was
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by jspash 5y ago
I think the American version is inherently sarcastic.
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by jspash 5y ago
I have to say that I was extremely disappointed to see the nicely seared steak tartare and microplaned truffle dish sharing the plate with a sad looking piece of "artisan hand-decrusted Wonder Bread™" I remember reading about a ba
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by jspash 5y ago
202x - Full Stack Engineer 201x - Web Developer 200x - Webmaster 199x - Guy with a computer That's how I remember it.
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by jspash 5y ago
When writing something that feels like it could break, or when dealing with unknown external APIs, I like to add an exception handler to _all_ new methods with a TODO and expiry date 3 months from now. Then on clean up days, if an exception
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by jspash 5y ago
Please don't group the current administration with the previous one.
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by jspash 5y ago
"COVID has generally proven to both employers and employees that productivity doesn't drop that much" Is that a personal observation of yours, or has this now become "fact"? The reason I ask is that I would like to
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by jspash 5y ago
No, it was more like 10 days.
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by jspash 5y ago
Tailwind is definitely a Marmite framework (either you love it or you hate it). Yes it can be difficult to read. And it can be difficult to debug and fix something where you make a small change and it cascades 'upwards' somehow. B
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by jspash 5y ago
Be careful with those on laptops. I had a 2016 Macbook Pro and put one of those one it. About 1 month later I had a nice big crack in display straight down the middle of the screen. I'm not 100% certain that was the cause. But the guy
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by jspash 5y ago
I remember seeing something on TV a long time ago where they "cured" people who stutter simply by giving them a device that allowed them to hear what they were saying, but there was a tiny delay which was the way it worked. I don&
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by jspash 5y ago
I bounced from Rails to Phoenix and couldn't be happier. I've done lots of functional programming before my Ruby days but never saw it coordinated in such a way that made sense to me. And since I only do web dev it was a perfect f
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by jspash 5y ago
I don't like them because all I can see is a reflection of my big ugly face staring back at me. Who needs to see THAT for eight hours a day?
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by jspash 5y ago
Is "continuous discovery" really needed? Maybe I'm naive, but can't a product - or a business - just be "done"? Nothing more to do but be a great product or service to someone. With happy, well-paid employees.
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by jspash 5y ago
A similar thing happened in my back garden last summer. Not as impressive, but still a feat of engineering for me and a few mates. Similar tech too! We had a couple 2-ton car jacks and a handful of 3 inch fence posts. Lift, lower, push. Lif
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by jspash 5y ago
It's almost like "a series of tubes" that do nothing more than squirt text around.
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by jspash 5y ago
I think I'm one of the few who doesn't prefer dark mode. The reason is Apple no longer offer a non-super-glare screen on their laptops any more. I bought an MBP about 10 years ago, and the choice between a "matte" screen

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