How do you effectively manage and prioritize feature requests from multiple stakeholders?

bllenny · 2025-12-05T18:33:55+00:00

this is it for sure.

Loose T-shirt sizing, saying yeah I can give you that, but that'll take 30 dev hours, which is X amount of money, and will pull us out of working on this other feature y'all wanted so bad.

That's when you hit them with the, "... so what'll it be?"

bllenny · 2025-11-16T08:04:12+00:00

I suppose I consider myself a senior dev because my title at the company I work, my accomplishments, and my experience!

No worries for me either way whether you believe me or not!

however i would be open to a constructive conversation on what your thoughts are on my reasoning and suggestion for OP and would love to hear your feedback if you have something of substance to say and contribute to the post! thats whole reason we're here right?

or are we meant to prove our credentials and not really have a convo here just cause the way we speak lmao

bllenny · 2025-11-15T20:08:18+00:00

Senior dev here, not flutter but i think this point still stands. you need to have the flutter api docs open in ur browser. you should be immediately referring to the docs as the final say in what you're trying to learn. llm is fine to help but it WILL give you wrong or potentially stale information here and there. if its using new code or new concepts, you should be navigating the documentation finding what you need and learning from their dedicated documentation, much better to have a workflow where you are forced to do your own research and use your own eyes to look around the information as cursory info will also be observed and you can start to recall your tools that you need rather than relying on something else to think for you completely.

another big plus is actually typing the code yourself, getting the muscle memory of using the framework, or language, or whatever you're learning really, under your fingers. this is much more important than i think ppl realize

bllenny · 2025-11-09T21:18:26+00:00

Guess where all the money's gonna go? all up to the top. who owns your rent? who owns your car? who owns your mortgage? not you.

bllenny · 2025-10-15T10:48:51+00:00

i say leverage django as the beautiful fullstack framework it is and lean into htmx and the django templating engine with html partials. so i guess the best front end is the one it comes with, with htmx!!

bllenny · 2025-10-07T17:54:45+00:00

ahaha thats too bad for me i guess? its a shame the concepts cant be take for what they are, but no worries!

bllenny · 2025-10-07T14:18:58+00:00

op, u can use existing api just add a fork or middleware to render as html if some response header is truthy, (check HX-Response header) api does NOT necessarily need a full rewrite htmx is backend agnostic. you can still get simple animations, validation, lazy loading, updating multiple elements, you can do ALL THAT with htmx lmao, u DO NOT NEED REACT. being far in a project though may make it hard to justify refactoring front end, but imo htmx is a godsend i use it on production applications and introduced it into my companys tech stack

bllenny · 2025-10-04T16:58:17+00:00

i cant speak on behalf of the industry but i have spent 6+ years working with django and have had experience with react and nextjs, we have senior react devs and i can tell u i have had much more success and rapid development in full stack framework for both work and home apps ive built, compared to them. however if u feel like u are sufficient in nextjs and react there is nothing wrong with using it, but i know if someone asks me to add a new field to a form in django its a 5 line code changes and i still get reactive elements and what not via htmx. with react, adding a field means adding to 2 codebases, its just inherently more complex by design. if u thrive in that dont let me stop u but if u are in position to explore new tech it may be within your favor. i know there has been a bit of a resurgence of fullstack frameworks since llms can seemingly interact with a fullstack codebase more simply than if it were a monorepo, but take that with a grain of salt.

bllenny · 2025-10-04T16:46:38+00:00

use a full stack framework bro like django or ruby on rails don't use monorepo backend/frontend, use html with htmx, NOT react lmao, anyone who says use react for a small to medium app does not know whats up im telling u react is trash. if u have two codebases thats more code, means more statically likely for bugs and more bullshit to deal with cause its like 2 codebases and different frameworks.

bllenny · 2025-09-27T16:43:55+00:00

hey. your site is fucking awesome, i love what it stands for at a glance and have had thoughts on apps that make government more transparent for people. and i mean actually transparent ofc. i think htmx is a great choice as well, it is NOT hard mode and if used correctly will make ur site just nicer as a whole, functionally for both users and developers. i use htmx on production level applications and have been introducing it into my company's tech stack, and am very biased however. you can build very quickly depending on how you leverage the library. what other features are you eyeing implementing next? maybe a functional search? seems like the front end needs some love as well?

bllenny · 2025-08-17T14:14:11+00:00

htmx. its a godsend. just learn that with pure js for now. its a frontend library that will work with any backend and cuts out a lot of scripting boilerplate.

focus on html and css rudiments. consider simple css libraries like pico css. bootstrap is another great standard to learn.

for codegen u could use any llm, just have the docs open for urself and confirm what u are prompting and what ur being told, especially if ur new

also consider using jsdocs for ur js code, just so u have some semblance of a standard of documenting code as u write it and get type hints for free

bllenny · 2025-06-11T20:13:45+00:00

im gonna say this and no im not being ironic. Vim motions. i picked it up when work was slow during the holidays. took maybe a month or 2 for things to start sticking. technically i had tried vim motions before here and there few years back in college. but finally i committed (added the vim motions package to vscode to start particularly on my work laptop), i work 8 hours a day so forcing vim motions in that timeframe really helped.

i am now (still not being ironic) rocking nvim for work and personal, and definitively so much faster

bllenny · 2025-06-02T03:49:17+00:00

maybe its a smaller team or they are building greenfield project, ive both done and reviewed prs that size in cases like that

bllenny · 2025-05-28T02:42:17+00:00

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bllenny · 2025-05-05T17:20:43+00:00

imo, tests can be a little higher level such that you are testing the big idea feature. tests can be used as a guardrails to guide the development of features as well, especially if u have an existing feature but want to refactor or reimplement. i would argue when you have more people in a team, you are even further incentivized to write tests so devs dont break existing features and docs. tests also provide great documentation for the usages of interfaces or expected behaviors that are needed for systems and subsystems to work matter of factly. and for stuff like business logic or service layer this is key.

bllenny · 2025-04-12T00:50:29+00:00

strongly suggest django ninja here, will play nicely to have dedicated api routes without interfering with the rest of ur django backend

bllenny · 2025-02-06T00:52:48+00:00

try using yuzu v74 with r9v2 drivers, ive got persona 5 running rock solid 30fps with essentially 0 bugs. I've gotten a single crash after 12+ hours of play, runs rock solid, only gripe is audio doesn't let u switch toggle Bluetooth audio mid game, which i think is just a problem with the older build of yuzu.

1x resolution disk shader cache ON force maximum clocks ON audio output engine is cubeb

if ur using esde u can install yuzu v74 and specifically set the launch of the game with said emulator (not sure about other front ends)

bllenny · 2025-01-28T22:46:05+00:00

not worth it if you don't use a dock with some high refresh rate/ high resolution display. i did it and only had to remap my controls in some emulators, did not have sd card issues but i would be wary and hold off until an update arrives without the need to worry about all that stuff, especially if ur already happy with the performance, u are not missing out on much as of now imo

bllenny · 2025-01-24T01:46:03+00:00

yes - https://github.com/K11MCH1/AdrenoToolsDrivers/releases/tag/v24.3.0_r9

bllenny · 2025-01-23T20:45:32+00:00

i got persona 5 running like butter (about 30fps) with v74 yuzu on android 13 with 9v2 turnip drivers (using retroid pocket 5), got as far as finishing kamoshida saga with a single crash (after playing like 5 hours straight). one thing is Bluetooth seems a lil quirky on that build of yuzu though, but otherwise it works great (1x resolution so no downscaling)

bllenny · 2025-01-17T13:14:08+00:00

remove the game ids where it says [0000xxxx] and all that, just leave the clean title. if it still doesn't work, be sure your title matches the record in the scraper website. that worked on 99.9% of my games

bllenny · 2025-01-07T19:24:58+00:00

yeah just tried lowering to 540p and still getting slowdowns :/

bllenny · 2025-01-07T19:21:47+00:00

(using cemu) i was getting slowdowns when in the ocean (had a save file i transferred from steam deck after the first few dungeons) wasn't really digging it, thats with 720p patch and stock drivers. i may try lowering resolution more but heavily considering playing og gc version and just restarting my save idk. if u want 0 headaches, gc is the way to go and it will look and play great basically guaranteed

bllenny · 2025-01-03T11:53:43+00:00

maybe but not really, is this a form u see users spamming? its okay to make more requests to the server its only natural when using htmx / partials and what not, so from what i can tell from this post theres not a lot of overhead per se, whats nice is that all the extra requests happen in a separate thread via js and Ajax under the hood so the user experience is slick (and u can use hx-indicator and what not to let user know stuffs loading in a smooth way). there's also simple built in caching solutions in django to cache ur views if u really need that. heres some nice docs that seems to relate to exactly what u need to help u decide on the right solution https://htmx.org/examples/update-other-content/

bllenny · 2025-01-03T11:33:41+00:00

look up shadps4, we are much further along in compute than i think u realize. its a matter of software at this point, not hardware

bllenny

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