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itsjoshbruce

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Time Lord. Agile Coach, User Experience designer, and software developer. Designing the human experience all around. :)

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itsjoshbruce, to random
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This audiobook is (was?) kicking my butt.

Then I applied the book.

  1. Work through it on repeat.
  2. What parts are joy (low friction), and what parts are pain (high friction).
  3. Can I reduce the friction?
  4. Repeat.

Here’s the rub, avoid reducing friction for the joyful. Not everything can or should be automated to achieve getting it over with.

Also, if “everything” causes friction, you’re probably in the wrong place doing the wrong things for you.

#Agile
#Lean
#MasteringTheMundane

baldur, to random
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Not going to link to the actual review because I don’t care and will not care about the movie in question, but I find it interesting how quickly and thoroughly the meaning of “AI” in the public vocabulary as shifted from “futuristic automated intelligence” to “bad and lazily made”

itsjoshbruce,
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@baldur @gdinwiddie: Ah. That’s a bummer. I actually liked Little Monsters. It was Monsters Inc. before Pixar. But, to each their own.

ramsey, to random
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So, why did Matrix decide to create a brand new federated communications spec over working with XMPP? https://autonomous.zone/@bamfic/112516709699999473

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@ramsey: Still iterating on a stock response to most “Why reinvent” inquiries…

  1. Possibly didn’t know it existed. And, by the time they found out, they had succumbed to the sunk cost fallacy and convincing themselves their thing was (or would become) different.

  2. Given how technology projects come and go, takes a lot of faith to believe something will be around later, and you’ll still like the provider.

  3. Someone’s a control freak. (See #2)

How many spreadsheet apps do humans need really?

polotek, to random
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I'm still thinking about this conversation. I had some thoughtful exchanges about it yesterday. Today I'm having a different thought.

I feel like we spend a lot of time trying to take the things we like and make them free. And conversely we spend a lot of time taking the things we don't like and trying to force companies to pay us more money to do it.
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/112480963476171110

itsjoshbruce,
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@polotek: The “in capitalist terms” intrigues. Can you expound?

gamingonlinux, to random
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It just keeps going. Google AI telling people to eat rocks 😂

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itsjoshbruce,
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@gamingonlinux @Girgias: At least it wasn’t: Hey! Rock Biter. Go pound sand.

(Now I want to watch The NeverEnding Story.)

selzero, to random
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Guys my toast has NV1VS on it. What do you suppose this means?

itsjoshbruce,
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@markproxy @selzero @independentpen: This further proves null was a bad idea and should be avoided.

ramsey, to php
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Opinions/thoughts/advice on #PHP monorepos with #Composer. Is anyone working within this problem space? What tools do you use?

I know #Symfony is a #monorepo. Are the tools they use specific to them, or can others use them?

itsjoshbruce,
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@ralphschindler @ramsey: Not sure about now, but Google was “famous” for using a monorepo for all things.

Article referencing Symfony and splitsh/lite: https://blog.logrocket.com/hosting-all-your-php-packages-together-in-a-monorepo/

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itsjoshbruce,
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@ralphschindler @ramsey To the original question: Debated for years.

Every time I get close enough to make the leap, I reconsider.

For the most part, I write less code (lots of deleting as well), or extract more stable code into separate repos that now change once every few years - instead of being needlessly versioned, despite no changes to that specific code.

Much more smaller libraries that do much less stuff.

Or, changing the architecture instead of tooling to workaround with it. 2/2

itsjoshbruce,
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@ralphschindler @ramsey: (not needed, but I’ll say it anyway) I approve this message.

itsjoshbruce, (edited ) to random
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I love deleting code more than I appreciate writing elegant code.

Especially when I can do it without losing functionality. It’s like the ultimate refactor win for me.

Just thought I’d share.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Experimentation in the following continues:

  1. Less code
  2. Fewer packages (1 package that depends on 50 = 51 packages)
  3. Still have robust dynamic sites

No more databases (not even flat-file). No more admin panels (that’s changing, kind of). Now I’m contemplating abandoning the belov’d front controller + router.

If you would have told the 2005 version of myself this is where I’d be 20 years later, I would’ve laughed in your face before panicking that someone would take away my precious.

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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Oh. And probably the most valuable one that sparked off this experimentation:

  1. Let the server be the server.

It’s interesting how much code we write to do what the server can do out of the box.

itsjoshbruce,
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@bobmagicii: That’s fair. I appreciate the work folks do. And, to give credit where due, the PSL has a lot going for it.

The other day I contemplated a package. It wouldn’t install because it and another package depend on different versions of the same underlying package.

I decided to just install the underlying package. Now, I’m pretty sure I’ll just remove that package entirely, because I can easily get there without it.

itsjoshbruce, to php
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It’s been so long since I did anything with authenticated users, curious about “modern” patterns and standards.

Specifically, an authenticated user wants to do something. What patterns and standards are you using for permissions?

I’m seeing middleware mentions. But, curious what else is out there. Not looking for “use Framework X” and should be testable. Doesn’t need to be web-specific as I’m just looking for patterns and standards.



itsjoshbruce,
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@bobmagicii: Interesting. Do the permission names correspond to an action (method) on the controller?

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@oliver: Right on. Is it the user or the request falling through the middleware checks?

johannarothman, to hiring
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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2024/05/consultants-and-candidates-no-free-work-ask-for-reasonable-compensation/

itsjoshbruce,
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@johannarothman: Reminded me of: https://www.nospec.com

itsjoshbruce,
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@johannarothman: Happy to share. I saw it for the first time over a decade ago. I’m surprised it’s still up.

I’ve definitely tried a lot of things for the portfolio, so to speak. Haven’t really found the one I should double down on. It probably doesn’t help that what seems to work for me is not in the spotlight of any kind.

More of a “in the shadows player.” lol

I am playing with the tagline: Give me credit, and tell your friends.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Part 9 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 9 is about Collaboration, which often gets conflated with Delegation (Part 7).

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane



itsjoshbruce,
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Time: Mastering the Mundane is on Scribl: https://www.scribl.com/books/EEDEB8/Time

We use Crowdpricing, so price is based on downloads and reviews, which means, as of this writing, it’s free.

We opted into Crowdpricing Everywhere; so, it should become available “everywhere” soon.

I found a couple of typos while recording the audiobook; corrected files should be coming soon.

The book is typeset for print and roughly half of the raw audio is recorded.



itsjoshbruce,
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The main book page for Time Mastering the Mundane has been updated: https://mastering-the-mundane.com/books/time-mastering-the-mundane/

Currently recording the raw audio for the audiobook and podcast variations. Have about a third recorded, and one Part through initial edits.

Found a couple of minor typos while recording. Corrected on the Leanpub version, and waiting for Scribl to let me know how to update it with them.

Print version is typeset.

So, still going as expected.



itsjoshbruce, to php
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Learning how to do a thing.

Pretty sure it’s possible; never tried and haven’t been pulled to do so.

PHP creates sessions. Using cookies, it creates a cookie named: PHPSESSID (or similar).

I’d like to customize this; clean and simple.

Goal: I’d like to not have the PHPSESSID cookie. Not finding it.

Thinking:

  1. Disable session cookie
  2. Implement SessionHandlerInterface
  3. Set mine as the save handler
  4. Pass my session cookie in response header

Feel like I’m missing something.

#PHP

itsjoshbruce,
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@derickr @bhhaskin: Well done!

I didn't know session_name was a thing, and definitely clean for changing the key.

I think this will do the trick of step 1 - change the cookie key. And, step 2 - set custom ID:
session_name($sessionName);

/** Custom ID logic */

session_id($customId);

session_start();

No custom class implementing session handler interface is necessary...at least that I'm aware of as of now

Thank!

itsjoshbruce,
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@bhhaskin @derickr: Good looking out, and fair.

I'll go with the simple approach first. Make sure it works locally, then deploy it to production and verify it will also work there before getting too far into the rest of the solution.

Nothing sucks more than "it works on my machine" - and, your server being like "I'm not your machine. [insert maniacal laughter here]"

jitterted, to random
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Using in my apps has let me turn the "no logic in HTML templates" all the way up to 11.

I am now very aware (and suspicious) of any logic being evaluated, or even things like string concatenation, being done in HTML templates.

I may have to write a tool to warn me (or fail a test!) if I start using th:if, th:unless, or anything that looks like a method call in my Thymeleaf templates.

itsjoshbruce,
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@jitterted: Sure! Thanks for asking: https://github.com/8fold/php-html-builder

Part of the inspiration was also removing tokenized parsing of HTML. So, instead of “get PHP out HTML” it was “get HTML out of PHP” - it’s basically just string concatenation. lol

Very little code (a few hundred lines), and should be easy to port without becoming a full-blown project. A stable and complete build. I haven’t needed to tinker with it for years.

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