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Why did nobody tell me this stuff was so easy? I feel so foolish now.
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Thoughts and prayers.
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bsky.app/profile/qi.c...
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If you're not big on testing, are you really a professional?
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I reject the premise of pixel perfect web design being an admirable goal.
If you need a browser extension to implement a design, something has gone terribly wrong.
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This hurts me. Also, an hour is pure optimism.
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That seems to be a common problem with products that get big & need to curry favour with current/potential investors. Miro seems to be falling into that trap, too.
It's unfortunate that you can't just make a product, finish it & that's that. Hitching a company to a single idea makes things awkward.
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I'm curious about Linear, being honest; because developers are not the decision-makers with a budget. Plus, when I looked at it, it just seemed like Jira with some of the crap removed.
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I have a PS4 and Switch. PS4 gaming felt like an in-flight movie, due to the sound of the fans. The Switch is as silent as my fanless PC. My need for minimal sensory stimulation is satisfied well.
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Facts and evidence don't matter any more. It's all about feelings and emotions. Some might call it post-truth.
It's as if they think they can will their fantasies into existence.
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www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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You can add on UX at the end in the same way that you can add security on at the end. That is, you cant.
Though it really depends what you mean by UX. My thinking is that it isnt an attribute of a particular screen, but something that pervades the entire application.
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Yay for homogeneity? I hadn't realised that making all apps look the same was a thing.
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I have two 49" ultrawides, if that helps.
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Why are you using react again? 😬
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In other news: testing does not improve the quality of a product 🙂
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Facts and evidence no longer matter. Emotion is the currency of our post-truth world.
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Seems like a logical fallacy, to me.
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My career has bridged software dev and testing, but without these projects I would never have got involved in UX, UI, biz dev, product dev. Testing has made me a better developer (and vice-versa) and biz/product dev continues to do so.
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None of these have been abandoned. Likewise, none have been released. All have been playing Pong with my brain for years; I first started work on the freelancer tool in 2020.
And this is okay. Solo product dev has catapulted me way outside my comfort zone, which is where growth happens.
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I agree that encouraging certain types of content is part of the problem. Another part is that all social media looks like all social media.
There is an element of "How should it be funded?" but LinkedIn is now more like Facebook than an online version of professional networking.
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That history is way too vague for my liking. I remember something like how LinkedIn posts appear being changed to look like Facebook posts. The look and feel being changed to look like other social media. But I cannot remember what it was like before.
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There are elements of social networking in a site implementing professional networking online. But professional networking isn't about engagement statistics. Look at what r/LinkedInLunatics is and why it was created. It's a culture driven by post-acquisition software changes.
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I don't remember too much about pre-acquisition LinkedIn. But I do remember the angst about the changes Microsoft imposed. It was all about resistance to Microsoft turning it into a social network.
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It depends. There is an argument that all Microsoft did was turn LinkedIn into a social network. That LinkedIn being a social network is the fundamental problem with it. So creating another social network solves nothing, in that case.
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This is not really a coding problem. You'd need investment. Initially it's more of a "How do I get investment?" problem.
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Take the bluesky code and create a LinkedIn competitor. One that actually adheres to the original goals of professional networking, not the cash cow that Microsoft turned it into.
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I would actually replace debugging with testing. The latter is often faster. I'm actually tempted to say that debugging is an anti-pattern. I'm also tempted to say that anyone that sees testing as a task/chore is likely to get a 100% pass rate, yet still have to deal with production incidents.
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Now I'm wondering how brittle your tests are.
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Why?
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Follow me for more tips. Though most people that respond to me think I don't know what I'm talking about. They're wrong. I'm super awesome.
Right?
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"Hi. Thanks for the chocolate fireguard. Bye." What is so difficult about that?
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I'm going to reach for my go-to "Productivity is irrelevant" line 🤣
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You really need to practice your Tetris game.
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Bad day? 🤣
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Many people work within dysfunctional systems. It's widespread and therefore normalised. You can go from job to job to job working in the same way at each position. People don't like to be wrong. As you can maybe tell 😬
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Management-driven development in ANY domain causes problems. Just look at the nonsense it does to movies.
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HTML alone is good enough if all you care about is content. However, if you care about the experience of the person reading your content, you need more.
But if you're going to say that you need React or a JS framework? That is fighting talk.