Depends on the usecase. Unit tests are nice, but having had to upgrade a lot of front-ends recently, I wish all these tests were actually going through the browser route, even if it's slow. We only use tests manually so it's not slowing down deployments or commits.

Indeed. It's not even about tech people I don't think. It's non-tech people who make decisions. And at the moment they seemed to rather make sure they are seen as super impressive and on board than calculated and pragmatic.

The easy explanation is it's quite natural to feel strongly negative about something sold as "yeah, bitch, your livelihood will go away, suck it!"

No code weekend

When you consider getting some work done on the hobby project, but all the kids on the road are off school and shouting outside. And just like that I realised I was old.

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I try to entertain you the best I can

Instead of working on the hobby project tonight, I cooked and we watched Total Wipeout Australia laughing our asses off. Quality daddy daughter time. Worth it.

So Dexter learned HTML? Big if true

For some time I've tried to use browser native features over libraries. Glad this kind of approach is more common now.

Once I get there in 4-6 months, will need to figure it out, I suppose 😅 but yes, hopefully it'll go better, cheers 🤞

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Looking at my social feeds lately, either:

a) AI had become seriously good and all developers are now using it to one shot everything

b) most dev influencers I follow have pivoted to AI topics for clicks and payouts

Hah, I'd say (unironically) marketing will always be the issue (to improve on).

However, at this time I'm not actually trying to MMR anything (yet... Not publicly anyway 😅)

My MRR is now 406 USD 😎

My MRR exploding selling my old shirts on eBay is 0 USD 🫠

#buildinginpublic

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When you love visiting family so much you take a day off and forfeit the monthly developer bonus in the form of free pizza in the office 🥲

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Nothing in development beats switching off the machine and taking a break.

Yesterdays absolute dire state was easy enough to overcome!

Upwards and onwards! 😎

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Who knew that these days, when writing program to extract data from websites, the first step is to check that websites actually load any useful HTML in them at all.
#LessonsLearned #FailFaster

Good article. I liked the "importance of the single flow" approach too, maybe even more than the JS stuff.

My approach was to quickly get something out for a browser plugin and I didn't want to massively complicate it, but didn't want to have to duplicate biz-logic to check the same state.

Having updated legacy Laravel apps for the past 2 years there seems to be a pattern where apps with "boring" simple structure and limited 3rd party libraries are much easier to maintain and upgrade than corners that try to be too clever.

Nice, will have a read tonight. Thank you for sharing.

Link? I would like to see how other devs have approached this.

The most productive teams says "yes, and..."

The second most productive teams "disagree, but commit"

Anything after that is too much energy spent on internal issues.

Can simple reactivity in JS really be that simple? 🤔

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Trying to work on my hobby coding project today . . .

Oh where it signs multiple values to instance on construct, and you don't have to do match in method.

Gotcha!

Yeah that would be neat and a bit cleaner, especially if you have loads of labels you want to print out or same value from method is used multiple times.

Good shout!

Is there a detailed list somewhere of web techniques and scenarios that are allowed without having to display cookie consent? 🤔

As long as we get away from using random string values all over the project that can't be linked to each other 😎

It just makes sense, can't agree more!

Having to update a very old site right now and it's a mess with dynamically injecting values from random select statements and it's just a painful mess to fix 🥲

Mmm, you can do methods in enums? 🤔

I do all my labels and custom config stuff and use enums everywhere 😅

Ah the old Estonian tradition to get drunk every time I finish a website and deploy 😅