The way I’ve dealt with this before is reference the ticket number in the commit message. Now the only tickets you ever need to review are the ones relevant to the element in question, and only those creating or modifying that particular property, which should be evident in your commit log.

You don’t specify a language but I’d assume that is the footer definition/html and any scripts or styles invoked by it.

But once you have an answer, it would be wise to document it in confluence somewhere, even if it’s something like “Footer green per request from Director, Mr. Smith” or “Footer color: arbitrary, green to differentiate profile pages. Verify changes with Director.”

How to organize the documentation so that it isn’t difficult to navigate is another difficult question that is more art than science - one which has never been satisfactorily solved anywhere I’ve worked once complexity reaches a certain point, but I leave that exercise to the reader.

No. I 100% understood the sarcasm. Did that sound like a rebuttal or argument? It wasn’t intended that way.

Anyone who is worried about this feature is in a toxic relationship. And that’s not the phone’s fault.

Is that how you buy groceries? Because not me.

There’s an easy solution for that… cash.

He probably can’t even read it. “Man. Woman. Camera. CBDC.”

Fuck X. It’s an imaginary thing. Fuck ever so slightly less Twitter, which at least exists but it can get fucked as well.

Alright. It’s fair to point out that it’s not applicable. People do that shit, though. But if it wasn’t so damn applicable all the time, you probably wouldn’t notice and be sick of it.

I’m already two martinis into my evening, so I’m done worrying about it. Cheers, mate.

I think it describes a phenomenon we’ve seen repeated over and over almost without variation. Every single internet service slowly gets shittier as they switch from investment to returning investment. Everything going back to MySpace and Yahoo Spaces went from awesome to abandoned as soon as they started trying to monetize the platform they built. It’s fair to have a word for that and observing the inevitability.

Does it do any good if it is inevitable? I don’t know. The Fediverse seems to be a direct reaction to it, and I’d like to see more.

Primarily I use my Linux box for development, but I do like to game on the PC from time to time. And then also I like to connect to oculus for SteamVR. I haven’t been able to do that since I got off windows. Yeah, I could dual boot or whatever, but I just don’t want to.

I’ll look into Bazzite because maybe I can move my kids’ computer to Linux as well. They do nothing but game/discord on theirs.

Jesus Christ. Look, back in the Stone Age when I went to school the coolest calculator was the TI-36 Solar. It was already that mundane.

Naturally, I used a non-solar Casio, because I wasn’t one of the cool nerds.

For me, gaming was the one thing holding me back from really adopting Linux. When I got a PS5, I felt the time was right to make the switch, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find pretty much my whole Steam library works fine on Linux. VR still doesn’t work for me, but it seems to be getting there.

There is still a lot of googling and frustration involved in using and maintaining it, but I’m slowly learning through exposure. There is nothing I want to do on a PC any more that I need windows for. If the auto update stuff worked better, I’d probably recommend it to everyone. But I’ve tried both Mint and Ubuntu and the software updater constantly runs into issues very quickly after install. I’m guessing because of all the different ways to install software, but I can’t understand why it doesn’t just apt update/upgrade behind the scenes because that seems to work just fine.

I have. I’ve used GPT for about 5 years. It has gotten more sophisticated and yet it’s still just a completion engine even if it has more moving parts. There is no comprehension or reasoning behind it.

I was going to make the point that there may not be an error, but because you tell it to give you one, it finds something. But that doesn’t explain VSCode, you’re right. Every once in a while an IDE is just wrong. I was going to suggest trying a different IDE which might give you a less cryptic message. I often times find bad brace errors to be a result of something much higher in the code.

But again, not knowing PHP, I could only take a stab at answering why with the AI. I’ve tried many times to have an AI help me with these tasks. And sometimes it’s very good at them, but other times I can spend hours refining my query and arguing with it and never make any headway.

I can’t read PHP, so I can’t tell you where the syntax error is, but the AI is only responding in a way to complete the conversation. It has no ability to comprehend the code you’ve written, it just knows that conversations that start off the way yours did, probably ought to end with a complaint about that closing brace - particularly if you told it what VSCode was complaining about.

This is one of the shortcomings of AI code assistants - they can’t think abstractly at all. So it’s ability to answer a troubleshooting question depends greatly on how many times the same question has been asked on StackOverflow and elsewhere.

You couldn’t have posted this twenty minutes earlier? Fuck!

The mismatch between rich text and html has been a pain for pretty much ever.

Have you tried putting the br on the line above instead of on its own? Barring that can you assign a css class and just create the vertical separation you want?

It doesn’t really matter all that much. camelCase is to break up the long variable names and help people find the word breaks. Like imagine linespacing. That could be line spacing or lines pacing, and a little context would help you understand which (yeah this is a bit of a stretch)

As long as it helps clarify, it doesn’t matter. That doesn’t mean it won’t bug me if I think someone has done it wrong, but it doesn’t really matter.

Thank you. Turns out I have seen that before. I played with Graphviz for a couple of months. It was fun but ultimately fruitless for my needs at the time. Thank you for reminding me.

I don’t have the vision of how that would apply to this project. Perhaps to visualize the current workflow, but it feels like it would be easier to do it by hand unless it’s constantly changing.

I don’t know how many answers you are going to get, but I suspect not many. You’re asking someone to architect a solution without any requirements. Even if that weren’t a massive ask, it’s pretty much impossible because you haven’t provided any information.

First half: I’d write a guided wizard with a state machine.

Data structure? You mean schema? Depends on what the data is, how it’s related, and how it will be used. The answer could be anything from 30 SQL tables to a big blob of JSON.

Best language? The one(s) you know.

Graphical representation? I’ve been doing this for 25 years and never used a .dot. Is that a Word template? I can tell you I definitely wouldn’t use that but maybe someone else would tell you different. I’ve only had to produce a word document a couple of times and I used Java & POI to do it (C# could probably do it easier I’d hazard a guess) but if that’s not a requirement I’d use a browser interface.

Generating a fillable form? Like I say I’d make a wizard using some kind of web framework.

Good luck. Hopefully someone else understands your needs better than I do and can give you a better answer.