A git bingo: did you hear all of these?

Any > 40-year old developers out there that'd like to share their perspective? How did you grow (technically, managing, etc...)? Picked up fields over others (embeded systems over web app, for instance)?

Responses:

• I push others to do better without them noticing it
• Technical skills become obsolete over time but human skills stay relevant. People, values and norms change so you have to relearn them too.
• Keep learning, write a lot and communicate more.
• I took every advice on the Internet and did the opposite: playing the pendulum between team lead and dev; more and more a specialist in nothing; being able to talk to stakeholders and convert their input into software is by far my most valued skill; being a former manager means I generally understands my boss pretty well.
• I do more mentoring than I used to. I learned more about working in teams.
• I learn that less code is much, much better than more.
• I don't write many queries any more but I do write PowerShell and Typescript. I don't manage a server, it's hundreds. [...] I've taken on more senior roles by thinking beyond just databases.
• The more paradigms and patterns you know, the better you’ll be at expressing yourself in your language of choice. Learn as many languages as possible. Don’t grow too comfortable; challenge yourself regularly.

Currently at: https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/111280337863596402

The 4 examples are from the WAI, Deque, U.S. Web Design System et Tommy Feldt.

If you have a personal website: how did it change your life?

The Fediverse has multiple services that provides alternatives:

• Facebook replacement: Friendica
• Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
• YouTube replacement: PeerTube
• Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
• MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
• Reddit replacement: Lemmy
• Podcasting replacement: Castopod
• GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

Banksy on advertising:

People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you, and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening elsewhere. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights, copyright rights, and copyright law mean advertisers can say that they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. it's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Statistiquement, vous avew plus de chance de mettre fin au capitalisme (et accessoirement de sauver le monde) que de gagner à l'euromillion. Ça se tente. Plus on est à participer, plus vous avez de chance de gagner.

A thread about Firefox that drops support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. It includes versions prior to 10.15 of macOS.

The author explains the reasoning and there are multiple arguments.

An argument in favor of emoji instead of raw ASCII ones:

There are a lot of blind people on here, who use screen reader software to tell them what is on the screen. To help screen reader users, it's a good idea to use emoji rather than old-style smileys.

For example 😄 will be read out loud as "smile" because that's its alt text. However, :D will be read out loud as "colon D".

About 1.

1. DOM refs created inside composables need to be explicitly destructured in setup() and returned. Otherwise, they won't be mapped to their DOM element.

Yes... but it is also the point that the template refs must be declared in the vue component. I find it more explicit IHMO. Imagine if multiple components were referencing multiple template refs.... It would add mental burden and forces the developer to know which composable use which refs.

About 2.

2. Data inside refs isn't automatically usable by templates unless you wrap the composable invocation with reactive(), which conflicts with point 1 without even more destructuring.

Yes to get the value: const { myRef } = useComposable()
or
const r = reactive(useComposable())

Her partner created an Threads account and his partner was suggested, even if he only has an Instagram account.

The comments are golden about this post :D

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Tout abus d'@YLeBolloch peut nuire gravement à la santé d'une machine à propagande, même bien huilée.

On remarque les journalistes qui veulent tous le temps pousser à la phrase de trop au lieu d'avoir une clarté dans le discors. L'interviewé impose son rythme, c'est remarquable.