syntaxseed

syntaxseed, 9 months ago to business

Overheard 2 businessmen discussing corporate office changes so that employees "won't feel like just a cog in a machine."

They came up with these 'great' strategies:

• Rearrange the cubicles
• Art on the walls
• Seat managers closer to employees
• More team fun events

Notably not discussed:

• More pay
• Profit sharing
• More ownership of decisions & input
• Recognition of employee successes
• More PTO and/or work-life flexibility
• WFH options

Good luck guys! 😆

#business #management #HR

syntaxseed, 7 months ago to random

Don't let hollow men tell us that the only growth or progress possible or valuable for our species is in the material realm. The profit-making realms.

How sad that they don't see the value in making progress in art, health, knowledge, equality, peace, opportunities, exploration, social connections, tolerance, happiness and more.

These are stunted individuals whose limited vision will drive us all to an empty future leaving our humanity behind.

syntaxseed, 5 months ago to random

Where do bad rainbows go?

Prism. 🌈

It's a light sentence and gives them time to reflect.

Inspired by @Ten 😊

syntaxseed, 6 months ago to github

The #GitHub #Copilot announcement makes sense when you realize that this positions Microsoft even further to monetize the act of #coding itself.

When you handicap #developers and make them so dependent on LLMs to write code, that (eventually) they no longer know how to do so without it, then suddenly the days of working in a free editor are over.

#programming

syntaxseed, 3 months ago to random

🔥Hot take:
It's not a "free trial" if I have to pick a plan & give my credit card & get billed the second the trial ends.

This is delayed billing. I'm paying with the effort it will take to remember to reassess at the end of the trial & manually cancel if I didn't like it. I'm paying by giving you my credit card info. I'm paying with reminder burden.

This is a #SAAS dark pattern.

#WebDev

syntaxseed, 6 months ago to webdev

Quick note that I'm available for part-time and/or contract work for teams needing to augment a project but don't need a full time staff member.

I excel at maintaining & modernizing legacy PHP apps, Symfony, technical documentation writing & #WebDev team leadership.

I have some niche experience in multilingual projects (EN/FR) and Canadian insurance rating. I could pick #Laravel back up quickly.

#PHP #Symfony #JS #SlimPHP #WordPress #MapBox

Remote only (EST timezone). 👩‍💻

syntaxseed, 11 months ago to fediverse

I just got my first real taste of the power of #Mastodon. I wanted to reply to a post on the new #StarTrek #Lemmy instance & was lamenting the need for another social account. Then realized I can copy the url of the post into the search box here & view it like a Mastodon post. I can reply & my reply shows up on the original Lemmy thread.

Wow! 🤩

All we need now is a button that opens it in your currently logged in fediverse instance. 🤔

Maybe a browser plugin?

syntaxseed, 2 months ago to php

Received the phpc.social newsletter today, and I just want to take a moment to sincerely thank @ramsey & @ian for their work setting up, organizing fundraising for, and administering this little corner of the fediverse. 👏

I've had a great experience here & it has become my primary social media.

Thanks guys!

#PHP #phpcSocial

syntaxseed, 7 months ago to Software

This is the MOST annoying auth pattern.

If I could just type a damn password I'd be in by now. Instead of refreshing my inbox & checking my spam over & over. 😡

#software #programming #security

syntaxseed, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to ChatGPT

Just watched a local #highschool production of a play (in French) titled "J'ai pêté du théâtre."

GPT when pronounced in #French sounds like "J'ai pêté" which means "I farted".

So the the title of their play is "I farted theatre". (Or "GPT Theatre".)

About a writer who uses #ChatGPT to write scenes for their play & the hilarious nonsense it creates.

The teens have already nailed down the meta joke about this whole #AI situation & it slapped. 🤣

#theatre #WorldTheatreDay

syntaxseed, 10 months ago to threads

Did all the people flocking to #Threads learn nothing in the last decade??

Does throwing my hands up and accepting that well, "we're all going to get what we morons deserve!" Make me a nihilist?

Because omg we are all screwed. 🤦‍♀️

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

syntaxseed, 8 months ago to php

PHPgasm! LOL 😆

#PHP #programming #webdev

https://youtu.be/WsnHWxO7Krw?si=-NQZw1bWfFkT8eTP

syntaxseed, 8 months ago to unity

Unity
Wizards Of The Coast
Twitter
...
People keep acting surprised that corporations put profit above all other values. That they run on greed.

How many times is everyone's jaw going to hit the floor when corporations do what they are supposed to do?

We've collectively decided that capitalism is the 'best' way to structure society then we cry when it burns us over and over and over.

#Unity #WotC #Twitter

syntaxseed, 21 days ago to ai

Big Farm announces chicken coop safety board with members: Wolf, Coyote, Fox & Weasel. 😆

#AI #OpenAI

https://therecord.media/dhs-artificial-intelligence-safety-security-board-announcement

syntaxseed, 1 year ago to Symfony

Hey #PHP folks.

What's your thoughts on #Drupal vs #Joomla? I'm looking for a PHP CMS that isn't WordPress based on a potential client's request. Prefer #Symfony based so that's why these 2.

Mostly a brochure site with some normal CMS-y features (gallery, contact form, etc).

Bonus for ease of ongoing maintenance.

syntaxseed, 6 months ago to random

This year I'm taking a different approach to New Year's Resolutions. Instead of starting something new in January, I'm going to dedicate the last 2 months of this year to finishing as many miscellaneous tasks & projects as possible to give myself a clean-slate and empty todo list in January.

This means procrastinated household chores, personal goals like read some extra books, and work tasks that have been hanging around.

Less starting - more finishing! ✅

#resolutions #goals #organizing

syntaxseed, 7 months ago to programming

We need more (more than 0) #developer podcasts with women hosting. 😶 🎤

#programming #webdev #PHP

syntaxseed, 3 months ago to ai

Teachers are jumping through hoops to identify #AI / #ChatGPT generated content in students' work.

My husband is a high-school English teacher.

His students must write essays in Google Docs & he uses a playback browser extension to watch the students' edits in fast-forward to identify chunks of pasted-in content. He also has half a dozen tools he analyses the work with that gives a score of how likely it is to be AI generated. And he compares the style & quality to their other work.

#LLM

syntaxseed, 11 months ago to php

Developer folks....

If you want to describe that a project has been fixed for all the errors found by a static analysis tool up to a certain level, how would you say it?

Ex:
"This project is ______ for #PHPStan level 6."

• fixed
• valid
• passing
• correct
• ?

#PHP #TechDocs

syntaxseed, 2 months ago to random

It drives me nuts when people reply to questions with some variant of "Googling things is free you know."

Isn't it always better to get an answer from someone who knows? Isn't it nicer to have conversations with people?

I don't think we should all just default to interacting with eachother the bare minimum.

Sometimes people are asking not because they've never heard of a search engine, but because they enjoy learning from people.

syntaxseed, 2 months ago to SEO

I'm convinced people keep so many #browser tabs open because bookmarking sucks.

It always just sticks it in your last used folder (or the root folder) so you have to edit it right away to put it in the right place.

You have to edit out all the #SEO crap that sites put into the title tag to get a sane bookmark name.

Opening bookmarks is rarely quick unless you've really optimized the organization.

You get a lot of bookmark rot of things you've forgotten why you saved, or page doesn't exist. 👎

syntaxseed, 1 month ago to wordpress

I've been working on a #WordPress 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!

#PHP #WebDev

syntaxseed, 4 days ago to wordpress

#WordPress really didn't do anyone any favours by making EVERYTHING a post and stuffing everything into the Posts table.

I don't know how they talked themselves into the idea that Media uploads are 'posts' but this is really bad architecture.

(Coming from someone trying to do some fancy migrating of media.)

#WebDev

opdavies, 2 months ago to php

Types are optional in the programming languages I write most in. I like them, but I also like people can decide whether to use types or not.

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/archive/2024/03/06/types-are-optional

#dev #SoftwareDevelopment #php