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Articles that caught my attention this week: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/skeuomorphism https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/thoughts-on-the-future-of-software-development

Articles that caught my attention this week: https://newsletter.weskao.com/p/the-1-question-every-business-case https://newsletter.weskao.com/p/rigorous-thinking

Articles that caught my attention this week: https://www.foxhound.systems/blog/technical-debt-is-not-real https://www.svix.com/blog/strong-typing-hill-to-die-on https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/mastering-programming https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/?utm_source=tldrwebdev

A widespread convention when it comes to Boolean variables naming is to prefix them with a verb. Sometimes the explanation given for this practice is that it helps reading code, other times that this way we directly can spot that this is indeed a boolean. I would like to discuss those two assumptions. It helps reading code Maybe this is just me but I like when code reads like instructions. I agree that it can’t always be the case but I feel I should strive for it whenever I can....

Previous Quarter Plan A quarter plan (let’s start with a quick win!) ✅ A blog post on my first ever contribution to OpenStreetMap (don’t get your hopes high, it was a really really tiny thing) ❌ Continuing the CivicTech meetups by Les Bricodeurs ❌ Had to be put on hold for now, not that I don’t want to participate in anymore but those meetups have been paused so there’s that Refactoring of all the Ansible playbooks to deal with my server 🔁 This one has been started but is still an ongoing work....

As is not yet tradition, I will try to publish a quarterly plan of what I’d like to look at, try, and so on. This is mainly a personal thing to help keep track of what I was trying to achieve and what is my current advancement status. I’m not yet really sure of what the form of this report will be. I imagine some kind of retrospective on the previous one and some actions for the next quarter?...

Need a backup strategy for your selfhosted docker-compose? Here is one!

In order to shorten the famous list of things I forgot to post on time, here is the content of the workshop I gave for Les Bricodeurs “Docker pour les marins d’eau douce” on the 11th of March 2020 at the 42 Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes school. This workshop was the occasion to talk briefly about what Docker is and we then dove directly into using it and understanding it in order to deploy a Wordpress stack....

You probably don’t know it, but I regularly participate in events organized by Les Bricodeurs in Lyon. The goal of the association is to provide an introduction to different tools, technologies and processes to learners, focusing on a hands on experience through workshops. A year ago I gave a workshop on Git but completely forgot to put slides onlie. It is now done, you can find them here.

I recently acquired a Logitech bluetooth mouse and, although I was enjoying it a lot as always with Logitech, I was quite disappointed that I had to pair it again with my computer everytime it went to sleep or I would reboot it. So, after a small time of frustration, I decided to take a look on what was really going on, because the bluetooth keyboard was working like a charm, surviving reboots and so on....