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pierstoval, 10 months ago

@cacheflowe I want this as a screen saver now 😁

pierstoval, 10 months ago

It's a constant internal fight between "But tech is nice!" and "Everyone in tech is broken or corrupted, let it go."

I think the 3 burn-out periods I endured when working at SensioLabs that made me become a freelancer introduced something new in my career: the fact that I'm not 100% dependent on a single employer, thus I no longer need to "engage" in my job in an emotional way as I did before.

I have a real will to do things good where I work, but when I'm no longer there, it's fine, let it go

pierstoval, 10 months ago

I do everything I can so that when I leave, the team no longer depends on me (so they don't end up in stuff like "What the hell was he doing!? It's a mess!", because that's bad).

And I just let it go, it was a simple contract and it's no longer a thing.

In the past, like at SL, I was like "It's MY mission to do {whatever} and make things right!", and was emotionally impacted by everything (hence the burn-outs).

Becoming a freelancer (and enduring lots of stuff also) made me more detached.

pierstoval, 10 months ago

So detached in fact that I just wish all computer-related thing could disappear.

I need to find balance.

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@dgoosens Yup, I see that, the notion of "purpose", but if I had to "engage" in a long mission, I'd have to find another balance, which is the one to not get too much emotional on the project's state and future 😅

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@dgoosens I have no problem with businesses crashing. After all, if bad decisions were made, that's the management's problem.

What I have a problem with is when businesses make fool of their actual users, and when they blame their workers, while management is almost always the source of the problem.

pierstoval, 10 months ago

I was super happy in 2015 when Javier created EasyAdmin, the first version with the orange background wasn't perfect but it was the actual "configuration-revolution" we needed to either create easy admins (hence the name) or complex ones (for specific business needs).

V2 brang its new interface, it was awesome, and it had tons of customization (the bases of a WYSIWYG integration, easy datepicker integration too, etc.).

pierstoval, 10 months ago

V3 (and later V4) was a total mess in my opinion.

I was a regular contributor/helper on the tool for its first years of existence, and when V3's roadmap was announced, I was like "What!?".
Entirely new config format, dropped all (I mean, ALL) its flexible customization for something else (which is more "configuration" than "customization" to me), made it impossible to extend the framework (which I can understand... until a certain point), and overriding stuff is now a real pain.

pierstoval, 10 months ago

Sure, it creates pretty CRUDs, and it's probably suitable for 80% of the global use-cases.

But like nobody uses an admin generator to just use CRUD (In 8 years of EasyAdmin usage, I never saw a project only using CRUD as a strategy for its admin. Like, NEVER. More stuff was always needed).

The thing is, 80% use-cases is not 80% of users. It's just that for the 20%, they want the framework to be flexible enough to do what they need. Not struggle for hours while trying to do it.

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@skylarkingmullet If EasyAdmin had DTO support, you would've been able to use a DTO instead of a Doctrine Entity in your Form, and everything would've been solved by a simple "persistEntity" and "updateEntity" call 👌

But Javier said that he never wanted anything related to DTOs, nor separate the framework from Doctrine 😑 The worse part is that in EasyAdmin 2, supporting DTOs was really easy...

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@lucastucious J'ai découvert Dice Forge y'a quelques mois, j'ai A-DO-RÉ le système ! Je suis nul en stratégie, mais je trouve que ce système est tellement élégant !

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@juliemoynat Ton script est hyper propre, bien commenté, compréhensible, franchement, à part utiliser un "early return" pour certains petits bouts, j'ai aucun autre commentaire, c'est vraiment bien fait 👌

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@juliemoynat Plutôt que de faire "if (navigator.clipboard) " avec un gros bloc de code dans le "if", tu peux faire l'inverse :
"if (!navigator.clipboard) { return; }"

L'idée c'est d'éviter trop d'indentations, et aussi de donner explicitement les instructions des "cas d'échec" (par exemple on peut faire pareil pour throw une exception et arrêter le script : plus tôt on le fait, plus il est facile de comprendre le script en le lisant 👌)

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@juliemoynat C'est parce que tu n'as pas encore l'habitude !
En fait, quand tu t'y fais, tu te rends compte que trop d'indentations brise la lecture et augmente la charge cognitive.

L'early return est au fond une bonne pratique de code en faveur d'une forme d'accessibilité 😁

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@dgoosens Hardest part would be the mandatory 8 hours of work per day :p

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@dgoosens I don't think I could do that, it would be quite hard with my family life 😕

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@dgoosens @phpunit I tried it on some projects in the past, and it didn't always make the suite faster, for a reason I don't really understand.

pierstoval, 10 months ago

@Flemzord Si, mais je pouvais rien y faire, je suis pas proprio, et le problème était double : ballon d'eau chaude qui surconsommait et était incontrôlable, et pompe à chaleur qui fuyait et qui a mis genre 6 semaines à être réparée après avoir été constatée, sachant qu'elle devait être déjà présente bien avant à plus petite échelle. L'enfer énergétique...