Any comments from folks who actually kinda like Drupal? I can cop to it almost driving me to tears until I got over the quite considerable learning curve, and once past that I could most any CRUD app with minimal, if any, new code. Once I got over that hump it was actually quite amazing for prototyping CRUD apps or selling small apps to clients that they never would have otherwise ordered given the cost and time of rolling your own.
Readit Newsthinnerlizzy commented on Acquia, my Drupal startup dri.es/acquia-my-drupal-s... · Posted by u/taubek
thinnerlizzy commented on Acquia, my Drupal startup dri.es/acquia-my-drupal-s... · Posted by u/taubek
What, in your opinion, would be an advantage of Drupal over a headless CMS?
Drupal basically is a headless CMS plus a CMS front end if you expose the web service module.
> Getting reamed out all the time seems to have had a lasting impact on my ability to take ownership, do the kinds of things you need to do to get ahead, etc.
How so?
My work experiences during these years were about following strict orders and getting reamed at / yelled it for deviating, trying to improve things, etc.
I worked for a guy like that once.
I was already under so much stress from work that I had part of my intestines bind up for a week, the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with me so they decided to give me predinsone... I felt sick so I went home on a Saturday, after 'only' hitting 50 hours for the week. My boss called to yell at me and tell me to come back to work, the next thing I clearly remember was being in a hospital.
I still had to work for that POS for 2 years after that happened. For a long time I blamed myself, until a year and half later when my mother was within an inch of life in the hospital and I wanted to leave early and see her, he said "Didn't I already give you a day off for that?"
As for what kind of person that is? Narccists. And they can be very damaging to their employees if they aren't rooted out from management quickly.
I worked for several people like this in high school. In fact all of the people I worked for in high school were like this. One example being having to clean hot outdoor bathrooms in mid July heat with a mean case of mono and a temperature of 103. Never mind being “allowed” to call in sick. It took many, many years to realize that work wasn’t supposed to be this way.
After being what I consider a very talented member of our industry for 15 years and having no career advancement whatsoever, I’ve been asking myself over the past couple years whether these experiences are to blame. Getting reamed out all the time seems to have had a lasting impact on my ability to take ownership, do the kinds of things you need to do to get ahead, etc.
thinnerlizzy commented on My Journey as a Self-Taught Programmer blog.octachart.com/my-jou... · Posted by u/AfroBoyUg
Self taught, but at some point over the last several years the hiring criteria changed and I couldn’t get hired for a programming job without software engineering concepts such as binary search trees.
thinnerlizzy commented on Apple doesn't care about album cover art guilhermesimoes.github.io... · Posted by u/glitchdout
I liked iTunes back in the Steve Jobs days when, if album art wasn’t available, in its place it would display the album info on the diagonal against a white background, as if it were an old bootleg with stamped info on a white record sleeve. As a collector/listener of bootlegs I appreciated that little bit of skeuomorphism.
Anecdotal of course but I left and don’t plan to return. I also don’t know anyone who still lives there that doesn’t want to leave. That was mostly true pre-pandemic however.
thinnerlizzy commented on When your coworker does great work, tell their manager jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/w... · Posted by u/asicsp
The dilemma is this... "Ignorance is bliss" - You can't be worried/stressed about problems you don't know...
What if you're consistently doing good work but have zero visibility? Then years down the road, you notice a trend of people around you getting promotions/raises/bounses more often than you? The same people that slack off & lack integrity; to name a few. As a human being with emotions... can you honestly say you won't feel resentful in your moment of realization?
I am asking as someone who's been in that situation more times than I care to admit... I do good work for myself and for the sake of doing good work; I take pride in the work I do... but as most of it was never communicated, no one knew about it and just took it's results for granted; I was bypassed for raises, promotions, etc... Was it worth it? I can't give you a answer... it's a very conflicting place to be.
I have this problem myself. I've gotten around it in the past by taking roles where the visibility is already baked into it, but I've never really solved the root problem. Now I'm a mostly anonymous, invisible contractor at a FAANG, and I don't know that there's a way break through that even for those most determined.
thinnerlizzy commented on If it ain't broke: Share your oldest working gadgets bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
A 1960 Fisher X-1000 stereo amplifier that pumps out about 50 wpc, high for a tube amplifier. I found it on the street about 10 years ago, restored it, made a new brass faceplate, and it sounds just amazing.
thinnerlizzy commented on Michael Barbaro and the success of “The Daily” nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/seventyhorses
This is petty of me, but I can't stand the Daily. Not because the content is bad, but because Michael Barbaro's cadence is grating to my ears. I can't get over it, and I tune off NPR whenever the Daily comes on.
It brings me back to third grade and reading aloud - some kids just couldn't follow the natural rhythm of a passage or breath properly. Inserting pauses where they don't need to be, stretching out words and throwing in meter where it doesn't make sense... I just can't get over it.
I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. You can notice it when he shifts from reading off a script to talking with a guest.
I too have noticed the cadence, and it occurred to me that non-native English speakers probably benefit from his deliberate cadences. I find it to be a well designed podcast.