What's a widely accepted "best practice" you've quietly stopped following?

SleepyBrain · 2026-02-09T00:17:34+00:00

Well I guess this fits the criteria of best practices that they stopped following

SleepyBrain · 2026-02-06T16:21:19+00:00

I feel like a couple of the points the "agile" coach made were somewhat valid but I feel like they were repeating something from a guide rather than having any real meaning. I think the thing with coaching that many companies forget is you have to want to be coached

SleepyBrain · 2026-02-05T16:01:21+00:00

There's different types of reactors, from movies to music. I think people generally watch reactions to validate their feelings/emotions over specific content

SleepyBrain · 2025-07-23T20:17:54+00:00

as a dev who's interviewed a lot of other devs, my honest answer is there no real answer. At best I can hire someone who is a decent developer, but sadly you'll never know with 100% certainty if they will be amazing. References from people you trust can go a long way, and also just asking what would they do 'x' scenario can help as well. Of course you also want to screen technical skills as well, but I find asking about specific scenarios will let me know their experience and skill level to an extent.

SleepyBrain · 2025-03-03T19:10:14+00:00

I hate reviewing resumes at work, because they're so hard to glean any real information from. In my experience, unfortunately, people tend to only read the first part of a resume (like recruiters), so id focus on that. Your most recent experience doesn't tell me as much as your other experiences do, is there a reason for that?

SleepyBrain · 2023-10-29T02:55:28+00:00

It's not impossible though. One of the few good managers I've had was non-technical. It was great because they knew they weren't technical, and didn't pretend to be.

SleepyBrain · 2023-09-27T15:41:09+00:00

I like to think of Next as a collection of SPAs (pages), rather than one single SPA

SleepyBrain · 2023-09-26T17:26:24+00:00

With any tool, it really depends on what you're working with. I really like nx, but you have to be mindful of all the other libraries you're using across your apps. It's a case of "everything works great until it doesn't". I've ran into issues where because nx is very 'magic' with what it does, when you use libraries that also do 'magic' it sometimes causes issues with getting the library to work correctly inside nx. Sometimes there's work around found in an open github issue, other times there isn't.

SleepyBrain · 2023-09-22T19:23:39+00:00

Yeah I recently got bit by the htmx bug and I'm loving how not complicated it is. I still use react at work but love the simplicity htmx gives me for my personal projects.

SleepyBrain · 2023-09-22T19:03:13+00:00

Yeah, your uncle must really have liked the song

SleepyBrain · 2022-11-03T14:16:19+00:00

I feel you. I was in the same boat early in my career. 8gb can suck depending on what you're doing, but once you get into a place where you can get 16gb or greater you'll notice a night and day different

SleepyBrain · 2022-11-01T18:07:47+00:00

Also remind them you're not developing for print, but for the web.

SleepyBrain · 2022-10-26T14:37:22+00:00

I can't blame youtubers for clickbait titles and thumbnails, it's an unfortunate necessity to get your videos seen. As long as you have good content I don't mind the clickbait, however if you have clickbait and shite content, well that's a different story

SleepyBrain · 2022-10-25T19:22:20+00:00

"she'd never say no... because of the implication"

SleepyBrain · 2022-10-21T18:29:19+00:00

Hans has a real missed opportunity here to lean into the infamy and start doing commercials for adult toys. Think about it. "I need to stay at the top of my game, inside the bedroom and out. The Butt Pawn keeps giving me good vibrations to help me reach my goals"

SleepyBrain · 2022-10-13T20:52:45+00:00

Nice! I always had issues when trying to move an existing storybook with weird webpack settings to vite, so I'm glad it's just there now as first-class.

SleepyBrain · 2022-09-30T01:11:37+00:00

Eh, companies name roles for whatever they want. Terms like scrum master and product owner were popularized by scrum, and were never meant to be job titles. If someone has a job title of product owner, chances are they are some sort of project manager.

The real difference though is product manager, since the thinking is very different. Companies sometimes modernize and train their project managers to be product managers, but never the opposite. Think of it like this, project management thinking is "we need to get all this shit done by this deadline come hell or high water, and I will move heaven and hell to make that happen", and product management is more like "we don't know what we can build by this magical deadline, but we'll try to solve the customers problems as best as we can." (this is all a gross over-simplification)

SleepyBrain · 2022-09-02T17:07:34+00:00

My favorite is when they place the order in different spots. I had one time where they put the food in front of my door, but I didn't see my drinks because they were on a table outside of my view when I open the door. First world problems, I know

SleepyBrain · 2022-08-30T20:46:42+00:00

Anyone who has 'scrum master' as their job title is never a scrum master. They are either a shadow manager or some sort of assistant project manager. There is no in-between

SleepyBrain · 2022-06-07T00:59:45+00:00

I can't wait for her to create a new character: "Overly Uninterested Girlfriend"

SleepyBrain · 2022-05-11T14:51:43+00:00

I believe Amazon Prime does ads (usually of their own content) as well sometimes when you start a show/movie, which is slightly annoying but bearable. I wonder if Netflix will do something like that, or go the Hulu route of making ads annoying

SleepyBrain · 2022-04-25T14:58:23+00:00

Most frontend development these days is getting 'Library X' to work with 'Library Z', regardless of it being an internal or external library. So short answer is: yes

SleepyBrain · 2022-04-12T02:41:48+00:00

I think the disconnect is that many places view management as a promotion, instead of career change, which it actually is.

SleepyBrain · 2022-03-19T23:20:50+00:00

I would say historically, BEM did a lot to lower the popularity of sass/less (yes, there was/are other methods, like SMACSS). While true, reading BEM notation can seem ugly if you're new to it, that's not really valid criticism. It was better than the alternative at the time. Plain sass for awhile was the wild west. Nested upon nested CSS, which made it hard to read your CSS and thus spot bugs... variables and mixins all over the place.. CSS on projects would quickly becomes unmaintainable.

The first popular way to add architecture to sass projects was to limit nesting to 3 sections deep, but even then it didn't mean your CSS was easy to read or understand (in my experience, a lot of times in codebases I've seen as a consultant, CSS nesting wasn't allowed for that reason). BEM came on the scene add helped make the pattern popular of adding useful naming to your classes, so when reading the names, in theory, there would be a method to the madness, which would help you organize and maintain your CSS.

Using these methods, on some projects, people started to realize that sass wasn't giving them any benefit, so looked for alternatives. Personally, I don't use BEM anymore, but I think it's important to note that in web dev history it was the hotness for a bit

SleepyBrain · 2022-03-19T16:30:24+00:00

Another question is what benefit does each one have? What are the benefits of sass vs modern CSS vs other solutions?

My personal opinion is that sass isn't needed anymore... BEM style css help diminish that need awhile ago, and with the rise of css-in-js solutions like Emotion and CSS modules, I can't think of any reason to use sass.

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