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wilsonrocks

276 karma · joined August 20, 2018

Math teacher and union offical turned web developer.

Blog at https://jameswilson.codes

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wilsonrocks··on Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are
Same here. It's my only Windows machine and the only one that reliably prints some PDFs. If they cared that I'm printing out MLP RPG sheets to play with my daughter I'll have that conversation.

I Never have work email on any other device but works.

wilsonrocks··on Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app
I'd forgotten all about this and used it for something once but I can't remember what now, but I liked it.
wilsonrocks··on Useful and useless code comments
I'm all in on prettifying... If it's done automatically. I find it such a good tradeoff to not have to think about it that I'm happy to accept the times when I think my discretion would do it better.

That said, I've started to develop strong views on some eslint rules. Usually around things being errors that should be warnings in development, like logging messages or debugger or unused variables. I like to run in CI with max warnings being zero to catch them then.

wilsonrocks··on Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser
Is opening the computer a possibility?
wilsonrocks··on useStateMachine: A ½ kb state machine hook for React
Oooh createmodel is new to me - will check it out!
wilsonrocks··on useStateMachine: A ½ kb state machine hook for React
I'm excited to try this. I've tried xstate many times and always struggled with the typescript, if this Just Works I'll be v happy
wilsonrocks··on Learn CSS
I've listened to some of the podcast and it is really good, even in the car where you're highly unlikely to have devtools open.
wilsonrocks··on Saying Good Bye to Hey.com
Same here, a happy customer.
wilsonrocks··on Irish health service hit by cyber attack
I don't think 'the game' refers to video games here.
wilsonrocks··on Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?
I've often thought that instead of an expensive coffee machine, ping pong table or playstation, I'd like a tea lady (or tea person as they would/should be called now)
wilsonrocks··on Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?
Good point!

I was thinking of it more as the human right to a cup of tea (not meaning to belittle real human rights struggles)

wilsonrocks··on Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
Didn't spot this till now, so you may have gone.

Largely based on articles I read after watching the film Blood Diamond, actually.

wilsonrocks··on Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?
Tea and coffee ought to be a baseline in any office environment imo. I think it'd be worth it for companies to just pay for it, otherwise employees set up a tea club, spend work time doing it and fall out over it.
wilsonrocks··on How to write a resume that converts
I used to work with someone who had been a manager in 80s Britain (high unemployment) and he said they threw any applicable in a brown envelope in the bin.

It wasn't about skills or experience or culture fit, but about getting the hiring done in a sane amount of time.

wilsonrocks··on The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
I'm glad you got out!

I find that CEO level bosses (I used to be a teacher so am including heads/principals here) love to pontificate about stuff not related to the job. I've often wondered why. It's sometimes harmless, and clearly,as in your case, sometimes harmful. I do wonder what causes it though.

wilsonrocks··on The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
This sounds awful.

It's amazing how workplaces can get in these kind of darkly comic places

wilsonrocks··on HTML Sanitizer API
Or if you work with a CMS and you don't trust them to not allow script tags
wilsonrocks··on HTML Tips (2020)
I know it uses JS but the customValidity stuff is pretty cool too!
wilsonrocks··on Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
Luckily my wife wanted Peridots but I would not have bought diamonds on ethical grounds.
wilsonrocks··on CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified
It sounds a bit like the no-cors request that lets you see if the resource was available but won't let you see anything?

I nearly tried to use it once to try and see if a react app was on an intranet or not, but the client decided they didn't want it.

wilsonrocks··on Some useful regular expressions for programmers
Binding auto format to the tab key has blown my mind!
wilsonrocks··on Websites go greyscale for Prince Philip
I am British and really don't like the monarchy, so I disapprove in general.

But if you're going to make a (largely symbolic) gesture like this, it's inexcusable to abandon accessibility.

wilsonrocks··on I can only think that modern front end development has failed
I guess this depends on 'musically diverse' === 'better' though, which isn't necessarily the case when people think about what makes the top 100 tracks for a year.
wilsonrocks··on Tar is an ill-specified format (2015)
Many memories of PKZip asking me to insert the last disk of a set :)

Usually when copying a game...

wilsonrocks··on Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
Doing this (not a blog but a game of freeciv) is how I got into coding as a career instead of coding as a hobby.
wilsonrocks··on Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web
Getting a human to change over a bunch of direct debits from one account to another is way better than doing it myself online.
wilsonrocks··on A directory of handmade webpages
Is it similar to HAML? I just started using that at work and really quite like it for templating.
wilsonrocks··on Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name
I still don't really like it, but I've since used it for adding I18n translations in rails and I can't think of a better alternative there.
wilsonrocks··on Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework
Js has 3 quotes, of which 2 do the same, and the remaining one does two different things...
wilsonrocks··on Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
> This isn't even the case. Last season in my country fruits were rotting in the fields cause nobody was there to pick them up. Did farmers increase salaries in order to get more fruit pickers? No.

Sad that this is one of the plot points of The Grapes Of Wrath and is still happening today.

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