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afilina

@afilina@phpc.social

Legacy software modernization, project rescue, architecture, test automation, public speaking.

I'm supporting a tactical unit in Ukraine directly. You can help me do more: https://afilina.com/donate/ua-supplies

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afilina, to random
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I started cancelling various subscriptions not because of price or service quality, but because maintaining a subscription has additional costs: dealing with billing problems, reviewing TOS after every update, reporting bugs that will never get fixed, protecting myself after a data leak, etc. Consuming things is not "fun" for me. It's a chore. This is why I'm trying to keep a lid on it.

sean, to random
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Amazon Prime Video preroll/midroll ads are so bad that I won’t watch Prime Video anymore.

I’ve had Prime longer than Prime Video has existed but I’ve paused it from renewing now.

The real bummer of this particular kind of is the exclusivity deals. If Amazon didn’t buy up content licensing and then put awful ads in front of it, maybe another platform that is slightly less bad could have a show or movie I want to watch.

This stage of technofeudalism is exhausting.

afilina,
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@sean I wish companies would just charge for their service what it's truly worth, as opposed to charging less so that they could still turn a paying customer into a product.

I cancelled Prime the minute they showed me an ad. If I wanted to see ads, I'd catch free TV with an antenna.

afilina, to random
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  • That's no moon!
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afilina, to random
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Does anybody is russia realize that sending able bodies to the slaughter and use what workforce remains to build weapons isn't the brightest idea? Clearly, not a single member of my family back in russia even remotely cares. They're seeing war crimes as a legitimate job. Morons.

afilina, to random
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Committing some OSHA violations with my SO.

afilina, to random
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Sometimes, the JetBrains AI Assistant is useful. Other times, it's as annoying as a random reply guy (or gal!) who keeps forgetting the constraints of the question.

rskuipers, to random
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Apparently it's necessary to check Facebook every 2 minutes during a movie in the cinema. I hate this generation.

afilina,
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@rskuipers Hate Facebook, not people who they successfully got addicted to their garbage. Honestly, I feel like we traded tobacco addiction for "scroll to refresh" addiction. Almost nobody smokes around me anymore, but everyone scrolls like they're in urgent need of a fix.

sarah, to random
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Writing automated tests makes writing code easier.

The marginal time it takes to write the test is faster than the time manual testing takes.

Someone who says "we don't have time to write tests" is wrong.

afilina,
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@sarah What they really mean is that they don't want to invest time to learn how to write good tests, or set up a pipeline to execute them, or figure out the full user expectations. There are also many people who start and then quit because it's not working for them, often due to lack of guidance from someone more knowledgeable.

I find that education, practice through small increments, and taking away the initial setup hurdles increases the chance of getting (and keeping) people into tests.

afilina, to random
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I finally got a React application to a state where I can dare to display a CI badge on the README. This was quite an adventure. Still plenty to refactor, but I'm getting to a point where making changes to the legacy is not scary anymore.

afilina, to random
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Is there any legitimate reason to use MUI? It causes complexity of an application to immediately skyrocket, in exchange for marginal gains. Even those are questionable and can be solved easily through better code design.

It really feels like maintaining a rocket when you can get everywhere you need by bike.

afilina, (edited )
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I'm spending most of my time in this project stripping MUI. The result is code I can actually reason about, which is also shorter and more maintainable.

Oh and also the result is more accessible HTML.

derickr, to photography
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📷 Tiny Gosling

🚩 Outer Circle, City of Westminster, United Kingdom

afilina,
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@SenseException I see what you did there. @derickr

afilina,
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@derickr @SenseException Ryan Gosling.

afilina, to random
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When company security policies are so bad that I need a second laptop open on my desk to do all my research work.

afilina, to random
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I'm confused. Is there no way to simply override the PHP's default file:// stream wrapper? Why must I reinvent the default implementation just to make one small change? Has nobody even published an unofficial implementation that can be "good enough"? Filters are great, but I can't auto-append them to every stream, which also means that I can't change the opening part. unless I missed something (docs are a bit light there).

afilina,
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I'm dealing with legacy, so I need to wrap things in a way where I don't to touch the original code at all.

afilina,
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@SenseException I went through the wiki and examples, and I still have no idea what it does.

I basically just need the default stream wrapper as written in C, but in PHP, so that I have a starting point to make small changes, like prepend text or log some operations. I'm not trying to isolate or unit-test anything

afilina,
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@cxj I need to intercept included files so that I can inject declare(ticks=1) at the top. Include and such aren't function.

afilina,
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I am losing my mind. I created a stream wrapper that allows me to intercept the loading of every file... except when it's an include and similar, meaning I can't modify PHP files on the fly.

Now, I do use PHP 5.3, so maybe it's an old limitation that was never documented. Or maybe there's some obscure directive that is not ON by default. dg/bypass-finals suggests that it's supposed to work, but it assumes PHP >=7.1.

afilina,
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@arnapou I adapted code from db/bypass-finals to make something more generic for my needs. I think PHP really ought to have a better way to implement custom stream wrappers without reinventing the wheel.

afilina,
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@cxj Yes, it needs to be done at runtime without touching the real files. Otherwise, it will mess up later steps. I ended up writing a wrapper after all, but I used one from an open source project as a template.

afilina, to random
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I already had Copilot for Windows turned off, but this guide has extra steps to completely disable it (not just toggle off).

Can someone confirm that this is a far an I need to go? I'd ideally delete every file it's relying on, but I don't want to brick my PC.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/software/how-disable-copilot-in-windows-11

afilina, to random
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Heh, russians started again with their low-quality phishing bait via e-mail. I haven't heard from them in some time. Did something bad happen to them recently that made them extra salty?

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