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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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syntaxseed, to microsoft
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Setting up child #Microsoft / #Xbox accounts for my 2 youngest kids.... was just about the most unfriendly user experience I've ever had.

The Live ecosystem that MS uses for accounts just redirects you constantly, forgets who's logged in. Keeps having to re-authenticate me but sometimes it asks for an email sometimes it emails a code. It's anybody's guess!

So I'm juggling access to my email, my 2 kids' emails. Some stuff needs an app because the website can't do it. I had 3 browsers open....

syntaxseed,
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I kid you not... I must have had to enter one of our 3 passwords over 40 times. It took me an hour & a half.

And I still don't know if adding my son's 2 school friends who gave him their gamertags worked or not because the Add Friend button gives no success/fail feedback. 🤷‍♀️

I thought these giant #tech companies were supposed to be good at this. 😱

#security #WebDev

syntaxseed,
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And I'm pretty sure the Don't Ask Me Again checkbox does nothing at all.

syntaxseed,
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@vpotter Feels like a placebo. 😆

syntaxseed, to UI
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I am plagued lately by websites that do weird #UI things & just lose all my typed comment.

Facebook's mobile website does it if I minimize my phone's keyboard.

#WordPress .com just did it when I typed a long meticulous comment & entered my name & email which it recognized as belonging to an account so it prompted me to log in. After I did so, I was returned to the blog post.... my comment vanished into the ether.

I just. It's so demoralizing.

#WebDev #UX

syntaxseed,
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9 times out of 10, I don't retype my post/comment and I just leave.

syntaxseed,
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@otto42 That's definitely not it. It's on a vanilla Chrome on a mobile phone, no extensions. This is a UI development problem.

syntaxseed,
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@otto42 Facebook has also, egregiously made their mobile website buggy, awkward & limited on purpose to push users to the mobile app. 👎

This is a well-documented dark-pattern in web development.

DianaThompson, to webdev
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O, the simple joy putting a project into version control that wasn't before. #WebDev #SoftwareDevelopment

syntaxseed,
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@DianaThompson That means it's REAL! 😁

angelikatyborska, to webdev
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Based on my experiences in various frontend codebases that were written without a frontend expert on the team (including my own old projects 💩), I compiled a list of 9 most common signs of frontend code quality issues that affect users https://angelika.me/2024/04/13/9-signs-your-frontend-code-has-quality-issues/

syntaxseed,
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@angelikatyborska This is a fantastic article!

I just wish it had a brief line on each item about the recommended way to do it instead. Because now I'm left scratching my head on a few of these... 🤔

syntaxseed,
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@angelikatyborska Oooo. I thought the links were for the proper use of the misused elements... not the proper way to do the thing being attempted. 😁

syntaxseed, to business
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Seeing a trend of more & more websites not letting you even into the website at all until you sign in or give an email address.

Walmart(dot)ca did it to me yesterday until I tried a private browsing tab. And Wayfair today.

Is this the new tactic since browsers are getting more privacy focused?

Never thought I'd see paywalls just to shop!

Guess I'm going to be submitting more no@eff-off.com emails going forward. 😡

syntaxseed,
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@tony_394c6b6b Oh geez. 😣

Good thing I have a few fake personas & throw-away emails if needed.

syntaxseed,
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@Trustnowan The number of times I've had money to spend but could barely drag a company to take it is mind boggling. Especially in the contracting industry in southern Ontario.

I have several projects that have gone undone because no one would call me back. 🤦‍♀️

syntaxseed, to wordpress
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I've been working on a plugin for a client that generates custom PDF worksheet printouts for teachers. And it's turning out SO awesome that I'm basically high on coding satisfaction today. 😁

Not bad for my first plugin!

syntaxseed,
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It's using a #PHP library called TCPDF which requires pretty old-timey HTML & very limited #CSS so.... table layouts are back baby!!

😆

But I've managed to exactly match the manually created PDFs, so I'm pretty happy with it.

syntaxseed,
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@bhhaskin Using a PHP library!

And it's only going to be installed on our own sites so we control the environment.

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@bhhaskin

https://tcpdf.org/

Has a bit of a learning curve & poor docs... but it's working nicely.

syntaxseed,
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@PJFDF Ooo nice!!

majorlinux, to random
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Everybody just has to have more.

Discord to start running ads even though it said it wasn't going to - Desk Chair
Analysts

https://dcanalysts.net/discord-to-start-running-ads-even-though-it-said-it-wasnt-going-to/

#DCA

syntaxseed,
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@majorlinux Self-hosted forums are going to make a comeback I swear....

syntaxseed, to Korean
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Hey #Korean folks!
My fam & I are loving #Physical100 season 2....

Please help us understand Korean names like: Kim Nam-Wook & Park Woo-jin.

Which are the family names & which are their given names? 🤔

Thanks!

syntaxseed, to php
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ALL of my projects have been upgraded off #PHP 7.x. Yay!!

:elephpant_purple: 🎉

syntaxseed,
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Next up...

To upgrade the ones still on 8.0 and 8.1.

There are 19 of those.... 😭

syntaxseed,
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@ericmann @wyri My #WordPress sites are all 'pinned' to 8.2 for compatibility (due to plugins) so that's my minimum target for now. 😁

syntaxseed,
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@wyri What are your Github Actions doing, if I may ask? 🤔

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