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syntaxseed

@syntaxseed@phpc.social

Programming, tech, gaming & other geeky topics from Sherri Wheeler.

Occasional business, handiwork, electronics, parenting and fitness content.

🐘 PHP/JS developer with miles to go before I sleep();

All posts are my own - never AI generated.

Ally & anti-racist. Bigoted or harassing replies get blocked & reported.

Available for part-time contract work.

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ellisgl, to random
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So, what did you all work on this weekend?

syntaxseed,
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@ellisgl Well, I made awesome bday magic for my husband.... and other than that, worked very hard on recuperating from a tough week and a forth coming tougher week. 😁

hypolite, to php

I'm looking for a simple #Wordpress Cache plugin but after staring at the dozens of available candidates, I must admit I have no idea where to turn. I don't need an All-in-One SEO/PageSpeed/etc..., I just need a simple server-side cache that I can set up and forget. Memcached support is a plus as it's already available on my machine.

Any recommendation?

syntaxseed,
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@hypolite I'm also finding it hard these days to find single-purpose plugins. They all are so bloated & over-reaching.

syntaxseed, to random
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Wow the #DnD movie was such fun! Glad we got to see it before the film left theatres. More of these please!

syntaxseed,
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Sad that it was jarringly unusual to see a random city-guard character was a woman. Guards/soldier extras are almost never women. This was nice.

syntaxseed, (edited ) to random
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❓How do you organize your source #code boundaries?

You have Students. The public accesses them. They CRUD themselves & admins CRUD them differently.

Everything in a students folder?

Or...

students/edit.twig
admin/students/edit.twig
public/students/view.twig

?

Other?

(I lean toward subject/object/verb.twig myself.)

#programming #development

syntaxseed,
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@splateric Me too. But in this app I have 3 groups doing things. The public, admins & students.

syntaxseed,
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@splateric Yeah. I'm not ridgid enough to put a student dir inside a student dir.

Plus an admin editing itself would be

admin/edit.twig

So the self reference is always 1 level deep. 😁

Edent, to gaming
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🆕 blog! “Let's (not) share our VR headsets”

It is hard to get people excited about VR. Even at its best, it is an isolating experience - that's why Zuck is pushing the social features of The Metaverse so hard. But, worse still, it's hard to show people what the VR experience is like. If your friend buys a 4K laser projector, you […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/05/lets-not-share-our-vr-headsets/
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#games #metaverse #vr

syntaxseed,
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@Edent Yay pink eye! 🤢

syntaxseed, to webdev
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I am way late to the #CSS frameworks & libraries game... but I started prototyping a project with Bootstrap 5, and it was so easy, I accidentally built the finished product & had to say "thanks but no thanks" to the front-end dev tasked with helping me. 🤣

Why did I not use this before??

syntaxseed,
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@mattwilcox Accessibility is definitely a good point, though I know next to nothing about it, so Bootstrap is probably better than me. I'm not using any widgets like modals.

So far browser & mobile support is great.

But an accessibility review is an excellent idea. 😁

(To clarify, the front-end dev I was assigned was an inexperienced junior who was reluctant, so I don't suspect that I turned down a UI accessibility expert.)

syntaxseed,
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@mattwilcox @sfxon Happily I'm basically using it for utility classes & not a real framework.

syntaxseed, to random
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May the 4th be with you folks!

Do something fun for yourself today. 😊

Skoop, to random
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My concept of "a week of vacation" this year:

  • Flu for the first 5 days
  • Customer work for part of yesterday
  • Chasing a potential customer today
  • Preparing a new talk with a friend today

Tomorrow is Friday. Will I be able to just do my own fun shit then?

syntaxseed,
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@Skoop 🤔 I think you might be 'vacationing' wrong... 😆

Man I hate when it seems like a vacation causes my immune system to relax and I instantly get sick. That sucks. 😔

dangillmor, to random
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Dear developers: I don't want to use your app on my phone. I want a mobile web version, and you can do that.

Thanks kindly.

syntaxseed,
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@dangillmor Caveat: I want a mobile web version that isn't intentionally broken like Facebook's mobile website.

syntaxseed, to random
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Amazing how you don't notice how much stress something is causing you until that stress is removed & you physically feel the load-off.

Was nervous about my income tax return due to a great year of self-employed income. Got it back today & I owe less than I had set aside, so that's a relief. 😌

beep, to random
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Tech workers: if you, like me, have ever wondered about how automation will impact your work, you should probably pay close attention to how “artificial intelligence” figures into the WGA strike. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub

syntaxseed,
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@synlogic @beep Then they'll just hire cheaper editors to polish the generated screenplays. 😡

syntaxseed, to php
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Recently #VSCode stopped being able to import classes or understand namespaces. It was marking all class names as not defined.

Eventually realized that /vendor/* was in my search filters. Turns out these are defined in 2 places. One is search only, the other affects code scanning & intellisense.

#PHP

itsjustdj, to random

I'm attempting to swap my teen's laptop from a Dell (Windows 10) to my old MacBook Pro running Pop! OS. The MacBook has a faster processor and the same amount of RAM as the Dell. And I need the Windows laptop so I can learn PowerShell.

His stated must-haves:
*Chrome
*Spotify
*Discord
*Steam
*Roblox

I got all of those running and he's testing his Steam games to makes sure they're all playable.

Fingers crossed.

syntaxseed,
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@itsjustdj Invaluable resource for checking & tweaking games' compatibility on Linux:

https://www.protondb.com/

I can't live without this website. lol

matthew_d_green, to random
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I downloaded an LLM onto my iPhone and it’s amazing.

syntaxseed,
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@matthew_d_green It's like when you type a message by always accepting the next auto-complete suggestion.

Exactly like that. 😆

syntaxseed, to random
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I somehow totally missed that Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox 'News' last week. Oh my is that delicious.🚪

Matt Walsh next please. 🤞

syntaxseed, to random
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Holy smokes look what I did. 😆

  • Put all the 'in progress' items as tasks in Trello and followed up on the unanswered ones. Bam!

#InboxZero

TheLetterTen, to random

Why is it so difficult for me to make friends? 😞

syntaxseed,
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@TheLetterTen I don't know if you should feel down on yourself for not making real connections on social media. I don't think this is a good medium for that even though it does happen rarely.

Social media doesn't foster the long, one-on-one time we need for making real friendships.

I've never made actual friends online. Lots of friendly acquaintances though. 🤷‍♀️

syntaxseed, to random
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That moment when you waited too long to start dinner & now you're too hungry to get up and cook. 😳

preinheimer, to random
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So many swaths of society that have little to no security.

Know someone's name? Most pharmacies will probably just hand you their prescription.

Know someone is staying at a hotel? If you can plausibly pretend to be them the front desk will likely give you their room key. If not the call center will let you change/cancel their reservation.

Your kid on a waitlist for some cool activity? Just phone in pretending to be some other parent and cancel their kid. There's no "Security key" for soccer.

syntaxseed,
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@preinheimer I've often thought about this.

Not to mention that most door locks are trivial to pick. Society operates on more blind faith than we realize.

syntaxseed,
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@qrazi @afilina Wow! 😓

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