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tCMS Hacking VI: How programming usually goes 🔗

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I tried to fix a bug, but had to fix other things first. This is how most days go when you are programming.

tCMS Deploys using Buildah and Podman 🔗 1609442334

Branching out thanks to our friends over at the Houston Linux User's Group.

tCMS on CentOS 7 with Apache 🔗 1609367187

I learned a few things deploying tCMS via proxy to a CentOS 7 box with Apache. Here's a breakdown.

tCMS Hacking V: Speeding up Docker deployment with overlays 🔗

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The fundamental motivation for all programmers -- "this is taking to long!"

Speaking of, this stream took way too long because the docu I was looking at was solving a different problem (smaller disk size than less time).

Feed my greedy algos!!!1

tCMS Retrospective: Houston.pm.org 🔗

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It took a bit of creative thinking to cram a site that wasn't my brainchild into muh box. Though thankfully it didn't require too much custom fitting and fixes to get the job done.

That said, it could have gone a lot smoother. Discussing that and more!

tCMS Hacking IV: Practical concerns when doing docker deploys 🔗 1609273138

Try not to stick your hands in the guts of your containers unless you want jungle diseases. Here's a practical example of doing the targeted surgery required to keep sane.

tCMS Hacking III: Filter your REQUEST_URI or you'll die 🔗 1609264670

Yet another from the "I should know better" (and do) files. A little dab of regex will do.

TrogloVlog: Episode 26 - Core Values and Playing House 🔗

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Turns out, "Core Values" can be hugely important and valuable for your company. Too bad hardly anyone uses them in a way that makes sense. Book Discussed: "You Need More Money" by Matt Manero

tCMS Retrospective: Phase 1 Completion 🔗 1608164452

tCMS is more or less doing what we wanted it to. What's more, it fit into the time we allocated for getting it done! Today we looked back at what we did and where we want to go next with Troglodyne.

tCMS Hacking II: Making schema updates 🔗

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Cleaning up after your SQL mistakes is important. Here's how to do it in a way that minimizes downtime.

tCMS Hacking: Removing unneeded schema 🔗

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From the "I should know better" files. Having predictable user identifiers which are also superfluous is pretty bad, and something I already knew not to do, but hey, worse is better!

TrogloVlog: Episode 25 - Cute Animal Bins to stuff your programmers in! 🔗 1607807220

Whee! This management stuff is easy! ...well, maybe not lol Probably not the best idea to compare your employees to zoo animals

Playwright for Perl: Update 2 🔗 1607806104

Wherein big progress is made.

Playwright for Perl! 🔗 1607804450

Selenium is dead. Long live Playwright! Though just at the start of things today, surprisingly good progress has been made already.
https://github.com/teodesian/playwright-perl

TrogloVlog: Episode 24 - Atlassian kills self hosted! Woe unto these companies with that product? 🔗 1607803196

Nah, turns out they probably would have saved money and incurred less risk by just outsourcing that concern in the first place. Atlassian is spot on with the marketing here (and we're not even shilling!)

Press release discussed:
https://www.atlassian.com/migration/journey-to-cloud

tCMS update: ACLs, Sitemaps, RSS and more 🔗 1607802643

Wherein we get closer to finishing the prototype

TrogloVlog: Episode 23: Don't put Vault Doors on Crackhouses! 🔗 1607798051

Premature Optimization? Put down the pipe!

Troglovlog: Episode 22 - Codes of Comfort 🔗 1607797572

Part 2 of the last cast. Now that we've got inauthenticity and coercion out of the way, let's strike to the heart of the matter: Comfort is overrated!

Troglovlog: Episode 21 - Codes of Coercion 🔗 1607796599

Sometimes management at a firm will codify certain attitudes or practices that employees must hold or follow. Unfortunately, this guarantees inauthenticity. Don't make this mistake unless you want employees to gain cognitive dissonance about your corporate brand.

TrogloVlog: Episode 20 - MicroISV Hero discovers Economic Coordination and the Structure of Production! 🔗 1607795580

Article discussed:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2020/10/09/four-years-at-stripe/

TrogloVlog: Episode 19 - Do Patents in the Software World make sense? 🔗

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Like all headlines with a question mark at the end, the answer is (unsurprisingly) NO. Most of the time patents are an excuse to not actually do the work required to get what you need done, instead validating your identity as "an innovator".

TrogloVlog: Episode 18 - Why Checklists Work in QA and Development 🔗 1607793591

Checklists are used often in many industries, but even to this day we still see a disturbing lack of checklisting in software. Don't make this mistake!

TrogloVlog: Episode 17 - The magic is Showing Up 🔗 1607757999

But how does one show up to work?? Search, of course. In this video we talk in general about how this all works.

Let's see if we can learn how to make magic internet money together!

TrogloVlog: Episode 16 - Why telling Stories is Important 🔗

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Not just for your business, but for ours as well!

Article mentioned:
https://ariyh.substack.com/p/attach-a-ritual-to-your-product

tCMS Early Progress Report 2 🔗 1607756053

Theming, Logins, Dynamic Routes and more!

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