Game design, coding, tech
Let the blog system look for new content from its authors each night, build the new pages as static content, and let the web server only deal with serving pages when visitors come, instead of spending time reading from a database each time a visitor arrives. This will decrease site load times drastically, and with…
It’s the little things that change over time that make a product less enjoyable to use. It’s sad to see users’ control and freedom being slowly eroded over time. Unexpected Jira changes As of the time of writing this post: Right-clicking in the scrum view on stories and tickets does not show the browser’s context…
As an example: Notepad++ is one of my favorite Windows text editors. I can trust it to restore my previous working session. I use it to quickly open new notes and store information that I need on-demand. I never need to save the data because the application always saves the state correctly. I have been…
Using Jira is a bit of an alienating and disempowering experience. What gives? The UI regularly lies to me Q: How is it that I don’t have access to something I created?A: I’ve been logged out of the system by their software, but the software has no idea it logged me out. My powers are…
After a year with a local company, I’ve moved back to a remote Python development role with a global media distribution company. I’ve worked for them before and so far things are looking up. I’m working on middleware, shuttling data between systems, documenting processes, and seeing where I can automate things. One of the main…
I had a side project to help update a department’s website. The design agency they contracted with delivered the site in PHP and the method of updating the site was uploading new content via FTP. The first thing I did was fetch the content off the server and commit to a local git repo to…
I have been working on a project in which I need to deploy to multiple Windows systems. I’ve written the software in Python; normally, I would clone the package repo via git to the target systems, and set up package dependencies by installing via internet, but I have some restrictions: Firewalled systems can’t pull in…
My assignment was to get the team’s Asana data off of the Asana platform, as the company set a hard date for closing their enterprise account. Since I had done a similar project like this before in Python, and some developers in teams that I interact with also use Python, I chose to use Python…
Currently on Windows 10 I’m not able to set Firefox as the default browser. This falls into a clever category of “useful bugs” so trivial that it’ll never be fixed. Hey, if the competitor’s product doesn’t register properly in our system, whose fault is that?
I went to install Docker for Windows today. It told me that in order for Docker to work, I had to enable Hyper-V, which would make VirtualBox unusable. So in order for it to “work”, it needs to disable the competition. Convenient. “Hyper-V and Containers features are not enabled. Do you want to enable them…