jacobyoder

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by jacobyoder 3y ago
I saw this scenario happen. Startup, one person wrote an insanely complex engine that did a lot of stuff; allowed them to scale up, get funding, etc. But... it became a complexity nightmare. The answer was... hire a new single expert, an
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
You can impose a structure process around wordpress - version control, more of an OO approach, etc - but you're then somewhat out of step with the rest of the wordpress ecosystem. It becomes harder to use anything from the 'reg
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Perhaps they like being in an office with their team mates. It's the colocation with coworkers, not specifically a particular office space.
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
The moment I start dealing with other teams/depts, I almost certainly have more context about most things than the manager "managing" me. You end up asking other folks "why X? why Y?" and get their perspective in t
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Casual twitter user here and have heard about 'notes' but not actually seen it in the wild yet? It sounds moderately reasonable; one of my concerns is that there's so much other upheaval going on that whatever effectivenes
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Had an engagement with a client a few years ago and GA came up. Folks on our side tried to avoid Google where possible, and I'd suggested some alternatives. Matomo, Fathom(IIRC) or others - multiple folks on the team had experience w
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
At this point, I can't really tell either.
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
> Some people really just learn one language. I think that's a gross oversimplification. My colleagues know JavaScript, TypeScript and ECMAScript, as well as YAML, HTML and CSS.
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
> The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Big yes to this. One of the things I noticed at a client that was using it, and growing, was that multiple people not directly involv
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
No kids here, but similar in that I remember sessions of long focus, and being able to do them repeatedly, for multiple days in a row. I typically can't do that as much now. Perhaps more to the point, I can't do them on demand.
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
> Your "Whys" quickly end with "because so-and-so said so", and will change tomorrow. The "5 whys" always seemed to stop just short of formally identifying the root cause of conflicting management techniques
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Selling time (hourly), I can't keep it up forever, and 10 years ago it was more like $100-$120k. I already see this year slowing down some, but it might be back to more like $120k, but on a part time effort, which will be nice in its
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Wife is from UK, but we're in the US now. She's got some friends/family there, and we keep up with some news/sports/TV from the UK regularly. Have watched some recent reports about how dire some things have gotten
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Can confirm. Have done this for the last several years. Wife stopped working a few years back due to an injury (but no disability or other income for better or worse), so I've been the sole breadwinner the last few years. I've
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Somewhat similar reaction - not specifically to Twitter folks, but in general 'techbro' type situations, where people think $500k comp is normal, expected, or hell, even 'deserved'. You got lucky (genetics, right place&
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Have gone through spells of no income (job loss, etc) and doing it with no savings vs savings is... far less stressful. And the sun rises in the east - Capt Obvious here. With a tightened, budget, we've got a burn rate of around $3k&
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
re: "undocumented". I bought whatever big oreilly book there was on it - "building XUL apps" or similar ( https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/creating-applications-w... ) it was impossible to f
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
A repeating issue I'll face when trying to 'juice' a bit is... mobile vs desktop. That 'project management setup' animation is a good example. That is kind slick - definitely useful, and I've found myself comi
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
Around ~15 years ago ios as a platform became a big thing. It's what powers iphone, and you can write apps for it. You can only write those apps on mac hardware. There are hundreds of millions of ios devices in use, all using apps s
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
Colleague of mine working in small company. New 'CTO' hired last year. He's very much of the "everyone's voice deserves to be heard... all input is valid!" My colleague has 22 years of engineering experience
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
> see that you watched donkey midget porn once, and can blackmail you with that data or perhaps we'll just somehow move beyond caring about that sort of stuff? if PH (for example) is hosting it, there's some level of 'leg
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
How does this work in the context of 'private' mode? This is something I assume a lot of folks would use for adult content. Do they have to verify each time? I've no doubt some people make accounts and stay 'logged in
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
The 'large PR' issue - I've been on the 'violating' end of that, but... there are actually times when a PR touching a lot of files and making changes is called for. I got push back at the last team I was on where t
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
I've been in situations as a dev where I've figuratively screamed from the rafters "X is happening - we need to do ABC". It's almost universally ignored because "well, devs just like to do ABC! not happening
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
The people who make the decisions don't use the product. That's almost always the root cause of this stuff. I worked on a system for my state - another vendor came in and 'took over' all the functionality my system han
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
I feel the same about PHP. It's easy to scale up, and can scale down to small CLI scripts (but can include any utility libraries you need as well).
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
What 'has' been proven then? No comments or docs? Long variable and method names? I just had a semi-interview the other day, and was talking with someone about the docs and testing stuff I've done in the past. One of the b
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
Maybe he's not a citizen or has whatever national insurance? I had a family member (US citizen) have to pay for hospitalization in belgium. On checking out the staff were apologetic. "This is going to be expensive...". It
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
not even necessarily CEOs... just the phrase "taking responsibility" seems to have been diluted to usually mean nothing in most corporate settings. software dev here - was working with a client, and a pm was pushing some not-great
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
My overarching experience with 'agile story points' (paraphrased combination between multiple teams/projects). "If it's not a 3, then it might be a 5. But if it's not a 5, that would mean it's an 8, and w

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