simonbarker87

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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Code complete using the older APIs is a disappointing. As only a casual Swift dev, one of the hardest things to get a handle on is the myriad of ways there have been to do things in Swift and Apple frameworks over the years. The online comm
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Agree! I think people are sooo scared of cancer (which is understandable) and have had 15 years of the sun screen industry beating the “always wear sun screen” drum (not that they are financially incentivised here at all!) that many people
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Don’t worry, I’m old too - that’s why I recommended it. That or Django or even NestJS running in SSR mode.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Yes. I worked on the warehousing developer team for a mid sized UK retailer (£75 million) and they had a home grown ERP system and it was a competitive advantage. It wasn’t perfect, the business makes trade offs, they see expensive coddled
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Htmx isn’t designed to work with JSON APIs at all. It needs HTML back from the server. You can detect when a request comes from htmx with a header it adds though so that allows you to return a different response if you want.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
UK is still building we’re just struggling for space and already have a tonne of railways. The issue here is more about getting extra capacity with what we have.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Maybe, but I've got quite a few friends in that do similar amounts of driving so I might not be as far out there as you think. But I agree we are at the higher end.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Wife worked for Polestar at the time and finally had the chance to get on the company lease scheme. We knew she was leaving by this point but decided a couple of months with an EV was worth a try to see if it fit our lifestyle. Glad we did
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
We found that 330 miles to be very unlikely as well. More like 270 and then you need to make sure you’ve got 40 miles spare to make sure you can make it to a working charge without going flat. So in reality the comfortable working assumptio
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Sure: - visiting family, 2 lots, both over 3 hours each away - mountain biking, 2 to 5 hour each way - friends wedding, 3 hours - airport run, 4 hour round trip … twice - overnight work trip 5 hours each way That’s a pretty common 2/3
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Yeh we were charging from a normal domestic socket plug in charger. If we’d spent the £1,500 on the dedicated charger I’m sure my view would be different. Either way I can get 500 miles out of an ICE and refill it in 2 minutes. EVs are grea
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Specifically we had to plan our charging for a few days ahead because, without a home charger, we couldn’t get more than a 25% charge overnight. So unless we wanted to start our journey with an expensive fast charge we would need to plan ou
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Population density explains a lot of difference between UK and Europe.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
We had a Polestar 2 as our only car for about 8 weeks at the start of the year, we knew we’d only have it for a short time so didn’t install a charger to the house. It was a total nightmare, we had to think days ahead to any big trip to mak
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I would imagine it’s the same as any other business. They declare bankruptcy, put the business into administration, appoint administrators who then determine how much the assets are worth and how to realise any value from those assets to pa
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
So that’s a mid blue button that gets slightly darker on hover, with bold white text, it’s got a little more horizontal padding than vertical padding and has slight corner rounding and a slight drop shadow. And I can see all of that in cont
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
But that’s such a pain in the but for those of us with a mild sesame problem. If it says “may contain” then I’m fine. If it’s listed as an ingredient then I can’t risk having it. For people who can’t have any at all you’ve not improved the
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
No, the number of tools JS developers have made to avoid learning SQL if it was going to die out it would have done by now. All that collective effort to avoid learning one language and thinking about your data structures first is staggerin
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
100% this. I heard a fun saying when I became a professional dev: “When you’re fed up of keeping up just retire in to SQL, it’s the best pension there is”
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Sure, and you’re right in plenty of cases. But likewise if your day to day is hard, stressful and has a decent amount of worry then once you’ve got the kids to bed at 8:30 the will power required to do some exercise is monumental. Quite fra
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
On the topic of time. I’m a fitness person, I love it and have made it large part of my none professional life. One of the most annoying things I hear fitness people say is: We all have the same 24 hours. Yeh no, people don’t and telling th
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I’m probably being overly pedantic but it’s not a secret
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Retuning the data as a json object vs sending it back with the relevant html really isn’t that much more data in the grand scheme of things. It’s more data but not very much, it’s not like you don’t need to sync with the backend with a json
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
You should be using the same templates/partials/fragments/components that render in your initial page load as your responses to page updates. So to render a table you render each row from a row component - then in response to
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
We pay all of our salary in to a joint account. We then take back a small amount for our own spending that month. We put money for bills into one joint account, we leave money for our budgeted cash spending in the main joint account (grocer
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Near enough yes but it was a nice helpful error message with the form fully populated as they left it - as far as it looks the user it’s client side validation as the service responds with just the correct html for the form and htmx swaps o
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Near enough exactly this
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It was all normal JS code to handle a complicated form we have on a customer facing portal page. By moving to htmx I was able to rely on the server side to handle basically everything with only a small addition of code to what it was alread
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
NestJS with Handlebars templates. I don’t love Handlebars but I have past experience with it so was the most pragmatic choice. I’m interested in trying EdgeJS as a templating alternative to HB but haven’t got round to it yet. I’ve added a N
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
One of the happiest days of coding in the last 10 years for me happened in September last year when I added htmx to an internal self serve web app I develop for our company. With the addition of maybe 5 htmx attributes I was able to delete

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