After a extremely long week, I sometimes participate in open source. I have to deal with malicious commits. I have to follow up on issues from misguided individuals who are actually looking for tech support. I have to guide new contributors to how this massive repo works and to submit tests. I have to negotiate with the core team and these convos can often last months/years.
And contributing to open-source is one of the few things that give me pleasure, even if it’s a extremely thankless job.
But I’m tired man.
I’m not dealing with low-quality memers who are providing zero value. Nor should we encourage it.
I do FOSS as well, but I’d rather people have fun punting the stalebot than just keep repeating “this issue still exists”. I will probably get a chuckle out of it.
Imagine if you will: You have a red button and a green button. You are allowed 10 seconds to review the code before rejecting or accepting & merging. Think fast.
Ever tried NestedText? It’s like basic YAML but everything is a string (types are up to the code that ingests it), and you never ever need to escape a character.
I’ve got too many consumers that I don’t control which dictate their input formats. And to be quite honest, “types are up to the code that ingests it” sounds like a huge negative to me.
Ah, well I love that policy (types being in code, not configs). FWIW I sometimes use it as a hand-edited document, with a small type-specifying file, to generate json/yaml/toml for other programs to load.
Serious question: I know that there are tracking cookies and the user should be able to decline those,but most sites have an auth cookie that stores you’re credentials. The devs can store it in a different place like local storage but thats really unsecured.what can the devs do in this situation when the user decline all cookies?
The eu rules are mostly about unnecessary cookies. Most web devs just copied whatever everyone else was doing and now there’s this standard of having to accept cookies but the EU doesn’t really enforce it like that
The EU is not stupid. They categorized cookies into the necessary ones for site-usage and those that aren’t. So developers just categorize their session cookie (rightfully) as necessary and that’s it.
The GDPR is not “cookie law”, it only prohibits tracking users in a way not essential to the operation of the site using locally stored identifiers (cookies, local storage, indexed DB…)
Storing a cookie to track login sessions, or color scheme preference does not require asking the user or allowing them to decline.
I recently had a complaint form refuse my complaint because it was too rude!
There wasn’t any bad language in it at all. I removed the sentence "It’s now more than two months since the accident and I would have expected the repairs to have been completed by now” and that let it through - sensitive or what?
I once had the opposite experience. Calmly and amiably complained about an employee misbehaving, but got asked aside by the manager to talk. She asked me to put the complaint in writing through their system and, looking directly at my eyes, added “Please feel free to be as explicit and emotionally expressive as you want. Don’t refrain from expletives, rudeness and bad words. We would really, really want to understand the extent of your upset over this situation, you know what I mean?” That’s when I realized that she wanted to fire this employee guilt free and was asking me to give her the ammo for the firing squad in front of HR.
When it comes to commits, single feature / scoped commits are quality. So this git history is actually underwhelming if the author is full time. This is a good read.
That article also mentions squashing merges though, which would lower the contribution count by a lot unless there’s a GitHub setting to have separate branch commits tracked that I’m missing out on.
I’ll never really understand this, I just bookmark stuff. I’ve never had more than maybe 15-20 open at the same time my entire life… Usually it’s just 5 or 6 max.
I’ll have a lot of tabs open with documentation and such as I’m working on things, but at the end of the day they are all either bookmarked if I need to continue the next day, or closed as I close my browser.
Then we have people like one of the consultants we have, that has 100+ tabs open, in several browser windows (different profiles), at all times. I wonder how much money we’ve wasted on him just by waiting for him to find the right tab when he wants to show us something in meetings…
That dude is just slow and doesn’t understand his tools. I have several thousand tabs open and it takes all of half a second to jump to any one of them. FF allows you to search open tabs just by using the address bar. Let’s say you’re researching camera lenses and you have 5 youtube videos open, several forum posts, the lens maker’s website open, and a bunch of different sales websites like adorama and b&h open. Do you literally bookmark those and close them all to end your day and then just reopen them the next? Why not just leave them open. FF handles it fine.
I don’t even now how anyone keeps track of them and finds the ones they want. And how can you possibly do that quicker than just going to the page afresh.
Part of working on a project for me is assembling links to important pages. It may be days, weeks or months later that I want to come back and there are the links. And of course, anything generically or regularly useful is just a bookmark as you say.
It really seems like people keep tabs open just to keep a list of useful pages. There are much easier and more effective ways to do that.
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