Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

It is annoying when a page whose whole purpose is to complete a form (login page, 2FA code confirmation, etc) doesn't have any input focused by default.

@meredevelopment Exactly xD I mean, there are valid scenarios to do that if the variable can have multiple types, but if it's always a boolean...

Every time I see the construct `if ($foobar === true) { ... }`, a little part of me dies.

@bellebcooper How was SO unwelcoming to you? I've always had good interactions, which of course doesn't mean anything since that's only my experience.

@tauli @craigmaloney Yeah I agree 😀 I think the intention when using that sentence is to encourage new developers to keep going, even if it they don't understand everything. And to show that programming is nothing special and anyone can do it. That's good, but I'm not sure that sentence is the best way to convey that message. After all development is every day more important in our society, so I hope that at least we know "something".

@tauli @craigmaloney It's only semantics, I am interpreting "we don't know what we are doing" as knowing nothing and you are interpreting "we don't know what we are doing" as not having the perfect solution. I don't think we have the perfect solution, so I actually agree with you on that.

I guess if we interpret "we don't know what we are doing" as not having the perfect solution, nobody knows what they are doing in most disciplines, not only programming.

@tauli @craigmaloney The fact that we still have a long way to go, and I agree, doesn't mean we don't know what we are doing.

For example, when you create a sign up form, you know you shouldn't be storing user passwords in plain text, right? That's one example of knowing what we are doing.

It doesn't mean we are perfect. But saying that implies we haven't learned a thing. If you don't know what you are doing, what's difference between you and a new dev?

@craigmaloney "We don't know what we're doing." I see that all the time and I don't agree.

It's perfectly understandable that programmers who are just getting started don't know and need to learn. But if "we" programmers, as a whole, don't know what we're doing, we have a problem.

Ok, about my issues with Thunderbird (last toot), false alarm. Turns out it's normal that me, the sender, can see everyone else's direction. I was confused because I also added myself as one of the recipients, and I could see everyone's email in the received message as well. Which is weird.

I just sent an email using BCC with Thunderbird and it didn't hide the emails for other recipients 😱 maybe it's time to stop using it, can you guys recommend any good email client that works in linux?

I just got a cookie notice in an app :/ Yes, an installed app, not a PWA. Is that weird or is it me?

@DavidDarnes I'd recommend giving it a try, it's very intuitive and you can also do components if you wish to. The only drawback is that you actually need to know CSS, but as we're talking about it's not really a problem :D. For me the best part is not having to think about naming things all the time "I will call this card, and this box, this primary button, this call to action, ..." You just have to worry about how you want it to look.

@DavidDarnes Yeah I agree, in fact in most of my latest projects I am choosing TailwindCSS, which is almost like no framework.

@craigmaloney Lol, was it Podio? I got the same email and I don't even remember what I used it for. I don't even want to login so that the account remains inactive and they delete it xD.

Ok migration done! It was easier than expected 😀.

So I moved from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 using a new machine. I use docker so I didn't have to rebuild the database, I just copied the files over.

Some stats:

- It took ~1 hour of work.
- In roughly 2 weeks that I've been in Mastodon, my instance has accumulated ~932MB of media and ~19MB database.
- I have not noticed the "downtime" at all, If anyone talked to me or something let me know, but I don't think it happened.

Well I am going to migrate my instance from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, so it may be down for a while, or something weird may happen.

But since it's fun, feel free to interact with me anyways, just to see what happens :P Keep in mind I may not receive it though.

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Migration-guide.md

@Gargron Well they are not 100% useless, I see a difference from my local and federated timelines. But yeah I get your point. It's cool thou because I can create my own community I guess.

@Gargron Hey I just heard the changelog podcast where you talk about Mastodon. I feel like I get a better grasp of the community now, but when you talk about what instances are and how they are centered about a "community" or "interests", you did not mention instances of one and what part they play on the ecosystem. Is that because that use-case doesn't happen a lot? Or what do you think about them?

@dajbelshaw Well I don't know, I think Vue has reached a level of maturity were that can't be considered to be a problem. If anything I would say it's better because it has a BDFL controlling the ship (I don't know if it's also the case for React).

But yeah, I think it's only a matter of opinion, both are great choices.

@adamprocter Btw are you getting this notifications as well? I haven't been using Mastodon for long, and because I don't see your mention in those replies I'm not sure if you get the messages from this thread.