Listening to Linux Downtime episode 86 - the hosts have some interesting thoughts about nerd flex and programming languages. PHP gets a pretty rough ride, which I think can be attributed to the host's ignorance. Personally, I love PHP and I know there are many PHP developers out there who feel the same -- the PHP community on Mastodon is awesome.
Sometimes, when I lock and unlock my computer, only 2 of my 3 screens return/work. I have to repeat the procedure (lock and unlock) before all 3 return to a working state. Anyway, first day back at work after a long weekend. Sometimes it can take a while to get back into the swing of things, just like my monitors.
Taking a look at Thunderbird mail client. It's been a good few years since I've used Thunderbird and I'm loving the look and feel of Supernova. I can see me using this as my default mail client again.
Working on a website that will be 20 years old next month. TBH, it looks 20 years old and so does the code. Maybe I'll convince the owner to update/rewrite it at some point. That said, it works just fine, so I wouldn't blame them if they kept it as is for another 20 years.
Lincoln LUG haven't had any IRL meetings since before COVID, but we all still meet on Discord and say hi every day. I've simplified our website to reflect this: lincolnlug.org.uk
I love how the Mythic Beasts website uses a unicorn 🦄 for its favicon.
First domain transferred over to use Mythic Beasts nameservers, DNS and email. First time using their control panel and I'm pretty impressed with it. Will try and move another domain tonight.
Doing some digital housework, backing up old git repositories, removing long dead sites/domains etc. It's a little sad to see old projects being archived, but I learned long ago about how ephemeral these things can be.
Fixing another old site to run without errors under PHP 8.2. Mostly seeing notices about dynamic properties, so nothing too bad so far.
Playing with the Codeium VS Code extension. The AI code suggestions seem pretty good, but it's not overly quick and I'm not sure how useful I'd find it for real world use. I've uninstalled it for now, but may take another look at some point in the future.
Updating a PWA to include a Net Promoter Score input. I had no idea what a NPS was, so I'm educating myself with the help of Wikipedia. Apparently it's a market research metric used to predict business growth. It's a proprietary instrument (whatever that means) and there is a registered NPS trademark. It is also favoured by business types and criticised by academics who question its reliability as a tool to predict business growth. Hmm.
I created my Mythic Beasts account well over a month ago, but I haven't managed to move any domains across to it yet. Will try and rectify that this week.
Updating a PWA, I only tend to touch this app's code once or twice a year. It takes longer for me to re-familiarise myself with the code than it does to write the update.
Batch converting Word documents to PDF files using headless LibreOffice. The process is quick, simple and works really well, apart from when the author uses some weird Word layout options.
Intranet page load times down from ~0.75 seconds to ~0.005 seconds. The speed difference is noticeable and I'm pretty happy with that. I wonder if any users will notice the difference?
Profiling, benchmarking and optimising our intranet. The page load times are pretty slow due to Active Directory integration and conditional content loading based on departments and security groups. I'm targeting the 2 most popular (according to stats) pages to begin with. I'm thinking there is potential for considerable time efficiency savings.
Fixing bugs that only appear in the development environment because the error reporting is verbose. There must have been a change to the error reporting levels on the development server since this code was last worked on.
I can’t remember the last time I used a system with a spinning hard drive. I should really put a drill bit through these old drives. Job for the weekend I think.
Searching old storage drives for some software that I think I wrote about 20 years ago. I'm sure the code is junk, but I'm interested to take a look at it as it might come in handy for a project I'm working on. Anyway, I really should organise my backups better.
Just subscribed to the "How To Code Well" podcast -- because I need all the help I can get.
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