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I started a little code Kata yesterday: Yahtzee in PHP. Admittedly, it's trivia, but what else to do on a rainy day while avoiding housework? https://github.com/iCaspar/yahtzee
Been playing with ideas from Elegant Objects by @yegor256
which I heard of by way of @chrokh,
and which sent me off to read Object Thinking by David West.
All that to say, the pullquote cited in both books is accurate:
"Step one in the transformation of a successful procedural developer into a successful object developer is a lobotomy."
In any case, there is a little number guess game in vol 2 of the Elegant Objects. It's in Java, and I "translated" it into PHP, started adding unit tests, and supplying the missing interfaces.
Results so far, here: https://github.com/iCaspar/numberguess-oop
Between people asking me if I have ever been tested for adult autism and being called “needy” over the past two weeks I start to wonder how much I know about myself anyway
I'm trying to make a simple file upload form in React, but because each component interferes with every other component, it's an infinite rabbit hole. I spent more than a day on forums. I want to burn this codebase to the ground.
You know what I miss?
Phone books.
The ones that used to arrive annually on your front porch with actual paper where you could look up a person or a business like looking up a word in the dictionary.
1/x
Meanwhile, if I try to use an actual online phonebook -- say whitepages-dot-com -- I get a lookup that tells me "yes, we know that business, but you have to subscribe [or pay per view or whatever] before we'll let you know how to contact them."
6/x
I get that access to actual, helpful information has actual costs.
But somewhere the line has been crossed between the cost of freely available access to the commons kinds of things that are the basis of a healthy society, and the commercial interests of information brokers.