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  1. Comment on Job search blues in ~talk

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    Ah, okay, sorry for not catching that :)

    Ah, okay, sorry for not catching that :)

  2. Comment on Science fiction or fantasy recommendations for children in ~books

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    I read the Hobbit and LotR for the first time when I was 9, and I loved it. So I think it's a good recommendation.

    I read the Hobbit and LotR for the first time when I was 9, and I loved it. So I think it's a good recommendation.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Job search blues in ~talk

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    I don't agree with the gatekeeping here, but I also think there's some truth to it. There is a certain point when the easy jobs are not required anymore. For example, our content team can now do...

    I don't agree with the gatekeeping here, but I also think there's some truth to it. There is a certain point when the easy jobs are not required anymore. For example, our content team can now do things with ChatGPT that used to be work for interns or juniors. Automation tools have also become really good. For example, I've seen Zapier being used as infra for a whole company unit. No dev required.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Alien: Romulus | Official trailer in ~movies

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    The trailer looks really good. I love all Alien movies except for Alien 3. I even liked Covenant. So this is something I'm looking forward to.

    The trailer looks really good. I love all Alien movies except for Alien 3. I even liked Covenant. So this is something I'm looking forward to.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Thoughts on PHP routing strategies in ~comp

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    I am sorry then. I did not interpret your post like this. Also, those are highly subjective points. I worked with the technologies you mentioned, and I pretty much prefer Symfony over Rails, which...

    I am sorry then. I did not interpret your post like this. Also, those are highly subjective points. I worked with the technologies you mentioned, and I pretty much prefer Symfony over Rails, which is also batteries included and ships with Doctrine - an amazing ORM - and TWIG - an equally amazing templating solution. I also disagree that TS is better than PHP. (For context: I like both TS and PHP, only worked very little with Ruby, and my favorite language is Go.)

    2 votes

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  8. Comment on Thoughts on PHP routing strategies in ~comp

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    Strange question. If you're productive with a stack or language, it's fine to use it. As for PHP... It's a good, performant language with a stable ecosystem and good package management (PHP v7+)....

    Strange question. If you're productive with a stack or language, it's fine to use it. As for PHP...

    • It's a good, performant language with a stable ecosystem and good package management (PHP v7+).
    • It has Symfony and Laravel which are both amazing.
    • It has good tooling.
    • It's easy to deploy.
    • There are many PHP devs out there which makes handovers easy.
    • There are tons of PHP projects out there which makes it easy (or easier) to find work.

    Really, the only thing that speaks against PHP for web dev are very specific requirements. And if you have them, you probably know that.

    16 votes

  9. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    A colleague of mine says that she liked it very much. But I'm not that much into negotiation, it was more like a one-time fun read for me

    A colleague of mine says that she liked it very much. But I'm not that much into negotiation, it was more like a one-time fun read for me

    1 vote

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  11. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I liked the Voss book as well, although I found his constant self promotion tiresome.

    I liked the Voss book as well, although I found his constant self promotion tiresome.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    I don't understand why it sends a red flag to you that I want to try something, but still thanks for the advice. And for containers in general, I dockerize all my projects anyway. I just like to...

    I don't understand why it sends a red flag to you that I want to try something, but still thanks for the advice. And for containers in general, I dockerize all my projects anyway. I just like to have a lot of stuff outside of containers. For example, Go and Node so that I can quickly test some stuff in my terminal.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    Yeah, dev containers sound interesting and I will probably try them at some point.

    Yeah, dev containers sound interesting and I will probably try them at some point.

  14. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    I didn't hear good things about it, though.

    I didn't hear good things about it, though.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    I didn't know about Stow, thanks a lot. :)

    I didn't know about Stow, thanks a lot.

    and pinky promise it's fine to run it with sudo

    :)

    2 votes

  16. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    That's a fantastic idea, thank you. Also thanks for your advice in general, it sounds reasonable. And yes, Homebrew is probably the best reason to develop with a Mac. It's great.

    I have a small script that sets all my important bitwarden secrets to ENV variables when I need to. It works well enough for my purposes.

    That's a fantastic idea, thank you. Also thanks for your advice in general, it sounds reasonable. And yes, Homebrew is probably the best reason to develop with a Mac. It's great.

    1 vote

  17. How do you organize your Linux packages?

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    Hello everyone. I am planning to get back into Linux development after working with Mac only for almost a decade. On Mac, one of the most important lessons that I learned was to always use...

    Hello everyone.

    I am planning to get back into Linux development after working with Mac only for almost a decade. On Mac, one of the most important lessons that I learned was to always use Homebrew. Using various package managers (e.g. Homebrew, NPM, Yarn, Pip, etc.) creates situations in which you don't know how to uninstall or upgrade certain pieces of software. Also, it's hard to generate a complete overview.

    How do you Linux folks handle this?

    Bonus question: How do you manage your dotfiles securely? I use Bitwarden, and it's a bit clunky.

    If that helps, I want to try Mint and always use Oh My ZSH!.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Honest Question: Why did PHP remove dynamic properties in 8.x? in ~comp

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    I've been using PHP for almost 25 years (12 of them professionally) and I think this is a great change. I encountered many bugs caused by dynamic properties and assume this will improve general...

    I've been using PHP for almost 25 years (12 of them professionally) and I think this is a great change. I encountered many bugs caused by dynamic properties and assume this will improve general PHP code quality quite a bit. Being explicit is a great thing.

    In general, I'm super happy with what PHP has become. I don't think the language is as good as Go or other alternatives (and wish typing was stronger or that we could get generics without Psalm), but modern PHP is indeed nice to work with.

    Edit: Another thing the proposal mentions is that this will improve static analysis. I think this is very important moving forward, as Psalm, Phpstan, and other tools still miss a lot of (potential) errors.

    9 votes

  19. Comment on Best news sources and blogs to keep you informed about IT and Software Development in ~comp

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    I think newsletters are a great way to stay informed. Here are some I enjoy: JetBrains newsletters (the PHP newsletter is very, very good) Off-by-one serverless newsletter (This is an excellent...

    I think newsletters are a great way to stay informed. Here are some I enjoy:

    4 votes

  20. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp