Product owners say, "We want to change the site so users see a list of all the other users on their team with access to this project "

Okay. Do some thinking. Going to need the backend to return that information to the front end. Decide what URL that should be under (api/v1/projects/users, maybe?).

Now we make the backend actually do that. Create a new file for this endpoint. Update the routes file so that url points to this file. Write the handler class.

Does this endpoint take any particular input? We know who the caller is for free from the framework. We only want to return info about one project or all projects? Make that decision. Update URL if needed.

Write the code to get the other users on the projects in question. Maybe that’s SQL, but might also be ORM (code from a framework that generates SQL based on objects). Decide what information we actually need. Package that up and send it back. The specifics depend on language and framework.

Write automated tests for this. Make sure it works for

• 401 not logged in
• 403 asking about a project I don’t have permission for
• 404 asking about a user with no projects, or a project that doesn’t exist
• someone with 1 project
• someone with 2 projects
• someone with 10000 projects
• also consider what happens for 0, 1, 2, 10000 users on the project.

Realize this needs to paginate. Go back and change the handler code to do that.

Realize due to some quirk of how permissions work, someone can be on the project twice. Talk with the team about if we should just decide that here, or try to fix the root problem. Probably the former.

Add deduplication code, then, and test cases.

Open this up for code review.

Start the front end work.

Make a dummy page first and update your API calling code to know about this new route, assuming you don’t have that auto magically set up somehow. Make sure it calls it and gets a response.

Realize that staff users technically have access to every project in the system. Ask product if that’s how they want that to behave. If no, figure out what you all want that to do instead.

Do a bunch of react work to make the page pretty, put the response in the right UI elements with links to the right place. Realize the response you’re sending back makes building the links annoying because you didn’t send some part of it, so you’d need to make another request to the backend for every link. That sucks. Update the backend to include the user’s team-id that is for some stupid reason still in the URL. Comment on code review.

And now I’m tired of writing.

Edit: I hit submit before I was done. Finished now. Edit: fix typo

Interesting idea. I know at least one of them is dating a Google employee who, from what I can tell, is rather “apolitical”. I don’t know about the others, though.

Some months ago I was giving a coworker shit for not doing much of anything. No protests. No volunteering. No donations. Just works his mid six figure job, plays video games, and dates his works-at-google girlfriend. He admitted maybe he could do more. I said I could nag him the next time a big protest happened. He said sure.

Well, I messaged him with a quote from that conversation. He was like “oh it’s Saturday?” And then no further responses until I followed up a day later. He’s not going to do anything.

The other guys from that group also don’t do anything.

Something about rich white straight (-passing) men comfortably just keeping their heads down and not even doing a half assed minimum bothers me.

But I guess there’s nothing to be done. I’ll be doing my best.

I think it’s because evil is stupid. Like, it’s a net negative policy. And often predicated on falsehoods (eg: belief that race works like old DND)

One of my favorite details from the old tabletop RPG Mage The Awakening is that souls are fungible. You don’t need your soul back, you just need a soul.

I’ve enjoyed bandcamp’s writeups. They seem to be written by real people.

I also sometimes peruse the “who else bought my favorite album this month?” listing. Find some gems and wild cards there.

I’ve been buying drm free music (mostly from Bandcamp) for years. No regrets.

I used to use the beginning of clutch’s psychic warfare. The first track is some low murdering, and then it comes in hard with X-ray visions. Always woke me right up.

I also used slothrust’s “like a child hiding behind your tombstone” for a while. That also starts a little quiet and then ramps up. Never hated the song, somehow. https://slothrust.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-child-hiding-behind-your-tombstone

Now I just have one of the default alarms and I kind of hate it.

Fruit has been one of my indulges during unemployment. I’d never buy a bag of chips for myself but I will eat a bag of oranges (over the course of several days). Grapes are good, too. Strawberries when they’re on sale. Bananas are okay. Blueberries are good. One of the little groceries was selling pints of cherry tomatoes (not a fruit by most standards) for $1. Ate the whole thing that night.

A nightmare. I’ve never had anything quite that bad, but I’ve had plenty of work experience where management is making bad decisions and has no accountability.

My current role is hourly, so I’m happy to shut the laptop exactly 8 hours into the day. Pays a lot less, sadly.

Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!

We all know most of these fools did not in fact avoid the plague.

Off topic.

Bonds are the mechanism by which the government issues new money. They cannot “print money” without selling the equivalent value in bonds.

I knew that’s what you meant but I don’t think that’s true. They choose not to because there’s concerns about inflation and devaluing the dollar, but there’s no constitutional restriction on that. The necessary and proper clause is pretty broad, as is Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.

I’m not a lawyer though

I’m pretty confident that selling bonds is not the only mechanism by which the government has access to money. Selling bonds is a common way for cities and states to raise funds, but I’m pretty sure the federal government can just … fund stuff.

One of the “Alt Right Playbook” videos talks about how the right wing don’t argue against each other. I don’t like internet videos, but i make an exception for this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4

This is the skit i thought of when i saw the headline.

is such an own goal for the fascists

I’m reminded of the bit from ur-fascism about how they are incapable of evaluating the world.

They are stupid people living in an emotional fantasy.

Why didn’t the conductor close the door on these guys?

At one of my old jobs, some of the software engineers would work nights and weekends without being paid extra. I said we shouldn’t do that. Management gave me a talking to about how I was demoralizing the team and it doesn’t hurt me if they want to work extra. It didn’t seem the appropriate time to argue that them devaluing the same labor I do does hurt me.

Republicans don’t believe in government as a concept. They should not be allowed to be anywhere near power.