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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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mikestreety, to random
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I've not felt quite at home on Mastodon, and I can't really work out why...

https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/the-end-of-the-social-network-school-year/

itsjoshbruce,
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@mikestreety: I’ve always felt the scattered pull to multiple networks. I was the distributed, decentralized part of the system; because not everyone I wanted to follow chose the same platforms.

That feeling is still there. I too don’t have a solution. I only have what worked for me and my goals—cross-posting wasn’t it.

Feel you.

dragonmantank, to random
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I have always thought ‘protected’ is the way to go. I cannot predict an end users needs all the time, so let them extend the code as they need.

Why should I stop them from doing what they need? I’m not obligated to fix their custom code.

RT @PerttiSoomann
With the last week's PHP 'final' usage in open source software packages - should libraries try to use 'protected' over 'private' to allow users to extend/adjust functionality …
https://twitter.com/PerttiSoomann/status/1654761395206987776

itsjoshbruce,
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@dragonmantank @freekmurze: Feels like a false dichotomy. Wrapping the third-party tends to maintain or increase loose coupling. Put the custom implementation in the wrapper and inject the third-party instance.

It also allows developers to create a specific interface to their domain instead of locking into (and exposing) a more generalized interface.

Composition over inheritance and all that. :)

tottinge, to random
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The "cost" of high internal quality software is negative. The usual trade-off between cost and quality, one that we are used to for most decisions in our life, does not make sense with the internal quality of software. (It does for external quality, such as a carefully crafted user-experience.) Because the relationship between cost and internal quality is an unusual and counter-intuitive relationship, it's usually hard to absorb https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html

itsjoshbruce,
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@tottinge @gdinwiddie: Feel you. I’ve moved every couple years since childhood. I love moving. I despise packing.

Seriously changed my acquisition strategy and relationship with the idea of permanence, though.

gdinwiddie, to random
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So little has changed in 98 years...

itsjoshbruce,
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@gdinwiddie: Humans are fascinating in that regard.

kevlin, to random
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WordFriday: echthesia

A state of confusion when your own internal sense of time doesn't seem to match that of the calendar — knowing that something just happened though it apparently took place seven years ago, or that somehow you built up a decade of memories in the span of only a year and a half.

(This definition is taken from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig: https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/)

https://www.facebook.com/WordFriday/posts/pfbid023XbUvnvFLUjBBkV5jXCGK6aFPiZ3WJPDMLWHkNntKwp8VErZPPrb74Zfj7ypXszSl

itsjoshbruce,
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@kevlin: Welcome to my world.

itsjoshbruce, to php
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I'm always torn between "don't repeat yourself" and localizing everything, so I don't need to hunt through 50 files to find things.

Does anyone have some guidelines and guardrails around making those choices and trade-offs that you find helpful?

I'm experimenting with namespacing functions and starting to draw some concepts, but I'd also like to see what's out there.

Comments, links, and boosts would be appreciated.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Received my first spam DM. Is that the tell-tale that a social platform has “made it”?

itsjoshbruce, to accessibility
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Building a site using Braille Institute’s Atkinson Hyperlegible font for improved . We’re considering OpenDyslexic, which users could switch to.

My understanding is Hyperlegible is a general, wide spectrum low-vision font, which should include . OpenDyslexic is more specific to dyslexia.

Curious if this font-switching affordance would be overkill? Or, appreciated compared to the more general Hyperlegible?

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

https://opendyslexic.org

allenholub, to random

Why is it that the things I'm told "just work" never do? I hate it when devs treat their customers like idiots and take away choices in the name of "making it easier." 🙄

itsjoshbruce,
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@allenholub: The one that gets my goat is when I’m like, “Appreciate this tool. Would like to be able to use this other tool for this discreet part of your tool, is that possible?” (Think template engine for a CMS for example.)

“No. What we chose is the best option and you should learn to use it instead of using the thing you prefer.”

ppatel, to accessibility
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Anyone sighted have a minute to tell me what this photo depicts. I don't need details.

https://media.mstdn.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/305/584/427/539/688/original/80fa1562dc793f93.jpg

itsjoshbruce,
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@ppatel @crb: Just seconding and better than I, a non-LLM would have done. :)

ian, to random
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There are now over 3800 of y'all on phpc.social. For folks new here, welcome! For those of y'all sponsoring the instance or assisting with running/moderating it, thank you for your support!

itsjoshbruce,
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@ian @itsjoshbruce: Where’s the support link again?

I know it was shared at one point, but it was too early in my trying things out to commit.

itsjoshbruce,
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@ian: Ah.

Will check next time I’m on the web client. I knew I saw it.

Don’t see a way to get there on @tootapp - but it’s been an exhausting day and my brain may be done thinking.

Thank you much for all you do!

mikestreety, to php
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I still don't get testing.

I've read many posts and understand the basics, but I struggle to relate that to a real-world app.

I'm developing something in which is 100% database powered, but I can't work out how I would test anything in CI, without a database seeded.

itsjoshbruce,
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@mikestreety: You can also change the way your models interact with other things. Trust the model-data crossover provided by Laravel. That’s tested by them.

Pass the data to other classes, functions, and so on. Then test those things. No database needed, just the data that would be there from the model.

No mocking, no seeding—changing the architecture to be testable.

Added benefit is loosening the coupling between the custom code and the support code of the framework.

DocOnDev, to random

A: Google uses canary testing. We should use canary testing.

B: Yes! And they use CI/CD to release constantly. Let’s do that too.

A: That’s stupid. We can’t do something just because Google does it.

itsjoshbruce,
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@DocOnDev @itsjoshbruce: React and Facebook and CI/CD.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Life is a game, play accordingly: https://joshbruce.com/experiences/agile-software-development/the-game/

michael, to programming
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I don't understand colour contrast calculations:

I got 2 buttons with red background. One with black text, the other with white.

colour contrast ratio with the black on red button is supposedly 4.81, while white on red is only 4.35 (which crucially is below the 4.5 threshold)

Yet, to my eye the white on red is much more legible than black on white.

What am I missing?

itsjoshbruce,
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@michael: Have you tried more than one tool? Which are you using?

itsjoshbruce,
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@michael: Thanks! I wonder if making the text bold, or dropping the lightness of the red by 1 percent would be enough to pass via math?

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@michael: Bummer. Designers not being flexible can be frustrating (I used to be in that camp).

How about the bold? Or dark mode considerations?

tottinge, to random
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"The Agile movement is not anti-methodology, in fact, many of us want to restore credibility to the word methodology. We want to restore a balance. We embrace modeling, but not in order to file some diagram in a dusty corporate repository. We embrace documentation, but not hundreds of pages of never-maintained and rarely-used tomes. We plan, but recognize the limits of planning in a turbulent environment."
https://agilemanifesto.org/history.html

itsjoshbruce,
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@tottinge: I’m fighting the “there are no plans” or “deadlines” myself at the moment. It’s like waterfall has deadlines - eventually. Meanwhile Agile is just “whenever.”

itsjoshbruce,
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@sleepyfox @tottinge: That’s true regardless of methods or approach. That there is a perception difference based on approach is the interesting part for me.

“We’re doing Agile, but with deadlines.”

itsjoshbruce,
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@tottinge: Yes! All of that. Maybe that’s the broader “fight” - just enough, just in time, for all the things.

tottinge, to random
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Every time I read the words "the Agile process" I die a little on the inside. Especially if people consider the source to be credible and influential.
Today, it was on a Microsoft web site.

What is "the Agile process"?

In this case - user story task breakdown.

Because... um... no reason I can think of. Why is that "the Agile process" to them? Have they not actually seen any of the agile processes?

itsjoshbruce,
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@gdinwiddie @tottinge: Made me think of Cadence: https://youtu.be/TOyhKTPfneI

itsjoshbruce,
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@gdinwiddie @tottinge: Both. I tend to default to movies, though. :)

Best Sam Cooke cover I ever heard was a homeless man outside DragonCon. He asked for cash in exchange for a song of my choosing. I asked him to sing his favorite.

It was A Change is Gonna Come.

Spellbound doesn’t do it justice. No instruments, just his voice.

gdinwiddie, to random
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Who should attend the retrospective?

For years, I’ve seen people argue online about who should and should not be invited to a retrospective. In typical consultant fashion, my answer is “It depends.”

On my blog, I talk about what it depends on, and how you can answer this question for yourself.
https://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2023/04/29/who-should-attend-the-retrospective/

itsjoshbruce,
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@gdinwiddie: Had this conversation today.

itsjoshbruce,
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@gdinwiddie: The conversation went well. Still waiting to see how the execution goes.

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