I feel the same

Very specific but: if you're alternating between dev and prod builds of a static site without fully cleaning the outpur dir and the prod build has compressed gzip/brotli files, they will be served instead of the uncompressed assets of the latest dev build.

Such a waste, but looks so much fun! Is it viable as a side hustle, aside from the cool pastime?

I looked around to get my Samsung S9 Edge (released 2018) broken screen fixed but the cost is higher (250€) than buying a refurbished one (125€) and the same as the new lower-end A models that already have double the RAM ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@antigermanist dunno if you're underpaid I have 10y of prof exp. And do fullstack/ server admin/ UX/ functional analysis. The contracts you see for 500-600/ day are not net, you still need to take out half if you're freelance or 33% if you have a one-person company (+50% if you pay it to yourself as wage). And add to that all additional costs and administration time. So in the end you'll do a lot more effort for a small increase. You're f'ed either way so I rather take the easy route

@rootshell true but that comes with having to do a lot of administration all the time, which is the thing I absolutely hate.

Didn't say I'm chasing the money or am unhappy with the way things are ;)

@retoor as in so cheap or so expensive or sth else?

Of course company interests come first for the company, can't blame them for that. After working 3y on a project I am now stuck with it. I pushed for variation in my duties and to help teams that I know could use my expertise, but no one gives a sh**. Got a total bore-out due to the unmotivating environment (mgmt sets bad example too). I can literally work at 10% capacity and use the other 90% for anything I want, but soon as my home renovations are done I'm getting out of there. They don't care, I don't care

I left WP ecosystem since Elementor/ WP Bakery/ Visual Composer got popular. The amount of bloat code they generate on your front + how they abuse a single DB field to cram in all sorts of shortcodes and adds a ton of overhead transforming them on each page load is insane (leaving optimization to your cache setup & cache control headers)

I didn't know avif, good stuff! Still your solution may be a bit overkill no? Wouldn't a) running an image compression script on the wp-content/uploads folders and b) adding a WP plugin that compresses image files on upload, be a cleaner solution long-term?

Jacques Brel is the real legend

It depends on what you value most and what effort you are willing to make. Windows/Mac are king for GUI´s, and those are the article´s main Linux criticisms. I created a keyboard backlight python GUI for my Linux laptop & open-sourced it (now an official vendor has made a better tool).

If Microsoft had poored the amount of money they did in Windows, in a Linux OS , it would be 10x better than Windows and the drivers wouldn´t even be an issue as 99% of desktops in the world would run a UNIX-derivative.

To me, not having bloatware & Windows updates outweighs having to do a bare-metal setup for sth every once in a while.. it is a big barrier for general adoption though.

They also removed the ability to deactivate Windows Updates forever via regedit

@12bitfloat I had a look at the linked dictionary in his comment, where under "dumb" is mentioned that *technically* this is still a valid synonym in the English language for mute people. Looks like it's published by University of Washington

I feel you

There´s a way involving editing the the Windows registry to permanently disable Windows updates (https://ninjaone.com/blog/...).

Lost too many auto-restart works in progress + issues w drivers support.
Life is better now

I'm your manager or dev lead rather. If you repeatedly commit broken stuff I will complain in the PR review and not let it pass until you do it properly.

Evidently don't commit broken or half-done stuff, if it needs to be faster, commit an in-between feature that at least works even if it's not completely polished yet, or work on a feature branch and start the commit message with WIP:

Javascript should be used on the front-end as progressive enhancement. Its immediate feedback in form validation is valuable to the user experience, and worthless security-wise, which is the opposite on the server. Anyone can sniff the API endpoints via the browser network tab and spoof the requests without going through the HTML/JS validation.

Regarding fuck users with js disabled I disagree in part with OP: if your solution is content-driven the basic display should work without needing JS (eg news site, blog). I never understood the craze about building your own blog fully with client-side React

Are all of @chatpgt 's answers ChatGPT answers?

They definitely struck their crowd of customers. And their customers´ customers.

Antivirus is a f*ing scam. As are "automatic security updates".

Factor in all things that potentially go wrong (missing flight connection, weather conditions, luggage stayed at departure or is stolen, different electrical sockets etc) + the prep needed to make the most out of it, including the mental headspace to dedicate to it and you start wondering whether it´s worth it

For me:
In order of ease of use:
Paint.NET, Krita, Photoshop, GIMP
In order of advanced ability:
Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, Paint.NET
In order of cost-to-quality ratio:
Krita, Paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop

* Paint.NET with plugins
** cost-to-quality including time spent

Been there 8 years ago
Keep enjoying it
still there haha

Thank you so much uBlock Origin (Firefox mobile supports extensions so you can also use it there)

Also try opening a JIRA issue on a 13-inch screen. I can barely see 2 lines of the ticket description, the rest is navigation, filter, breadcrumb bars

Climate change has turned my country in a sufficiently "heaven on earth place" that I don't feel the need to go south anymore (I prefer mild heat, max 32°C, over baking to death)

Also hate that we speak the same native language fluently, and in-person, but online he always addresses me in English..

@AleCx04 there are some use cases. FP higher order function. This example returns a function whose prototype is set to an anonymous class. Before React Hooks HOC's "higher order components" were all the hype, those used a similar mechanism

CLI = portable, unified and callable on remotes.
Other devs look at me like I'm a git wizard but if they made the same one-time effort to experiment with and memorize the most useful commands and combine them in sequences they could do more advanced git ops faster and with confidence

Y not simply have them set up docker runners? Can't be that hard can it? (spoiler: been through this last year, it is worth the effort)

Just came here to fact check my gut feel that a post with so many I<ActualName> interfaces was going to be about C#

A good soldier doesn't always make a good captain or the other way around. Use their abilities to the best possible extent but within their capacity. Relativize. Going through the same situation right now so just sharing what works best for me.

I hate how technical profiles always seeking better tools need to level down to non-technical profiles always going back to their comfort zone.

Fuck Windows, Teams (ESPECIALLY Teams), Skype, Office 365, Sharepoint and Outlook.