@ftyross I like it. It provides the opposite of planned obselecence - I can also speed the app up in future releases with little effort 😉

@Nanos Sadly boss == owner. They spent some time in client relations at a big agency then started their own. So they just hired a designer and a dev (me) and got on with it. They love the designer as she can produce wireframe visuals for a whole app quickly, but it can take days to code some of them by the time components are created, unit tests written, validation implemented (in JS and API), security considered, and so on...

Reminds me of a meetup I was at recently where one of the devs was doing a show and tell about a wand with an accelerometer in, using AI to match the shapes drawn in the air to spell shapes. He said they were making an API for it too (not just the kids' code version you see on their website).

https://kano.me/store/uk/...

I discovered a limited data mode in Windows 10 settings the other day, so I think someone thought about this.

I don't normally use Windows, so I couldn't tell you exactly where it is, but it seems to stop those pesky updates on mobile data.

Actually considering going freelance to help pay for working on my dream (which happens to be charity work - so no real $ there). At least if I can earn good money and set my own hours I might have some spare time to pursue it.

@Mitiko At least no one would overwrite my changes if I used compact discs. 😄 The time it would take to mail them to the hosting for deployment could be a bit of a pain though, especially if you realised there was a bug...

I know the pain. Fortunately for me they are open to change and are listening to me, but if they weren't I'd be gone. I was told Agile at interview. Not done a sprint plan in 3 months since I started.

Those steam train engineers were well ahead of their time! Embedded computers in their coal fired contraptions before anyone else even knew what a computer was.

I realised I answered earlier with what, but not where. The answer to that is in the bath 🛁

I've picked up a few tips and tricks from Syntax podcast. I think it's good, but it's probably only useful if you're doing web development, especially JS. https://syntax.fm

@zlice I demonstrated it using one of those sites by decoding their own password and secret question answer in front of them. They were just like, wow, that's cool. I've tried to explain rainbow attacks, to no avail. I think they just don't want to fix because we'd have to ask users to change passwords. Of course, I could just reverse engineer most of the passwords and rencrypt in a more secure way, but there are thousands of users and no guarantee of correct md5 lookups.

# for sure, but what about uppercase/lowercase hex?

Personally, I'm all about the #fff, but so many design apps export #FFF and our designers just copy/paste it. 😔

I've always thought of 'I feel you' as a contraction of 'I feel your pain', so I've never really thought of taking it literally. Now however, next time someone says it around me I'm gonna struggle not to laugh, especially if the situation is serious!

Can we force this to happen automatically every couple of years? I really like having my inbox cleansed too! Except of course the pain of implementing it for our own company...

Another +1 for this rant

PHP seems to evoke similar reactions amongst developers to vim vs nano or spaces vs tabs. People love or hate it, but it doesn't make it a less viable option.

Personally it's my job to write PHP and I enjoy it. Sure, I can see the inconsistencies, but you learn them and then they don't really matter.

I agree, and I'd add that as soon as you realise your ego is starting to get the better of you and harming your relationship with other devs on your team, take a deep breath and apologise to them - address the issue. I've been there lots of times, and every time I find out it was easy to solve with a bit of patience and understanding.

I was about 9, it was a simple EPOS in BASIC, but I hadn't mastered writing to disk or using a database at that point, so it would ask you to input a full stock catalogue each time you started it. All for the sake of running a make-believe shop with my sister! I remember trying the odd bit of Delphi with the free cover disks you got on PC mags at the time too.

My manager once suggested a KPI of lines of code written per year. This was pretty much the kind of response I gave him!

Perhaps a weekly group poll, like the weekly rant? Although I guess that would mean more work for @dfox thinking up topics!

I think both have their place. Even most of my geek friends wouldn't be impressed if I tried to 'pull' them!

I generally leave the inspector open on sites I'm developing. Chrome and Firefox both have checkboxes (in the inspector settings) to automatically disable the cache whenever the inspector is open.

Legally depends on your contract with them. Ethically nope, unless you agreed to it up front. On the other hand there's always a chance of losing the client if you refuse, so you have decide if their business with you is worth it!

Our front end takes 30 mins to make it look pretty and I spend 4 days refactoring his class names, duplication and unnecessary CSS.

I'm the backend dev, but I just couldn't live with knowing the front end contains so much poor code!

I don't know about WAMP, personally I use a VM running Homestead, but with your devRant in light mode I'm afraid I might not be able to help at all!

I've found October to be good cross between Laravel and CMS, complete with the dashboard work done for you. It has good standalone docs and is a bit of an easier leap from Wordpress into Laravel, but retains all that ability of Laravel for your further development.

@Jumpshot44 This is my dilemma, along with not wanting to let the team I work with now down.

I've built a few projects recently in October CMS. It has a lot of the CMS stuff pre made whilst using Laravel under the hood, so it's really quick to build sites without the faff of Wordpress themes. Even the backend has access to a decent browser based code editor should you need it on the go, supporting syntax highlighting, code validation and emmet. Very granular UAC too, so clients can't break their sites as easily, and very easy to extend functionality as needed.

It's easy, just run a bath full of cold water and place it in. Cools it down nicely. Just be careful with the power supply - those things can get a bit shocking!

Over locked PCs can get pretty hot. You might want to try water cooling?