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Article's premise: - software development practices are invariable to company size and stage Reality: - team size dominates methodology and user base size dominates architectural d…

In my experience most apps designed around relational databases will benefit from: - one-to-many and many-to-many mappings - soft delete - log tables / append-only tables - entity-…

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For the "play chess" example a state machine is the perfect place to begin modeling. Games, as a rule, are event-driven and are commonly coupled to a event-loop that triggers the t…

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onbeforeunload.asp

Pointing out that the solution is not perfect is fine. It helps future maintainers, even if self. The worst offenders don't even realize the badness of their implementations, intri…

My unpopular opinion is that you only forget what you have not learned and that you only learn what you do. The vast majority studies only to pass exams. So your situation is prett…

This should be a crime, like selling spoiled food.

TFA is nonsense. Hard deletes should almost never be used, period. The application credentials should not even have permission to issue delete statements, thus reducing potential d…

Truth is, our lizard brains are always forgetting the good stuff that happened but remembering every detail of some random shameful event nobody, except you, cares about.

School shooting is a memetic behavior, on the classical sense disseminated by R. Dawkins, not Internet's one. Can we rephrase the problem as: how do a society gets rid of a bad mem…

Please don't use this project as it makes no attempt to avoid the database file from being directly downloaded. Any sane PHP project (of witch WP is not one of) has it's index.php …

It's also becoming harder to buy dumb refrigerators above a certain size.

Me too. But they have FB accounts, IG accounts, TikTok accounts and so on. The share of people without any kind of social media presence or consumption is shrinking everyday.

One way to approach crime is to make the risk too big. What about punishing with death those who do identity theft and impersonation? Our society tolerates too much crime.

Next time you need to take a look at PHP, those two problems can be solved by php-apcu for caching and proxysql running side-by-side with php-fpm on each server.

The pervasive use of ORMs with lazy-loaded relationships works like a bunch of left joins, even if they are done as separated queries.

"Realize that every code has a life cycle and will die. Sometimes it dies in its infancy before seeing the light of production. Be OK with letting go." I cannot disagree more. Code…

I don't test private methods and I like to use them a lot. When refactoring, if a private method is unused, both IDE's and linters will warn you, easing the process of deleting dea…

Bolivia is also a huge market for cars stolen in Brazil.

20 years without meaningful improvements on memory access ?

I am mostly on the SPA-hating camp. There are two issues that annoy me the most. They are not a framework's fault but some kind of "mental model" fault: First. When doing SPAs, API…

I think you Ryzen CPU is being throttled. It is not able to sustain it's burst speed. You should keep an eye on CPU temp and clock. My benchmarks on hardware that have less single …

Things got cheaper because they are being made where wages are cheaper. At the end of the day, everything that is a expense to me is a source of income to somebody else. Only robot…

Software is hard, but unlike many other professions, you can do useful work at almost any level of the learning curve. Even for those of us with many years of experience, there's a…