That’s a bit too naive. Propaganda, marketing for products, fake reviews, referral links (or just links to promote blogs/new sites) all make money indirectly. There absolutely is money to make in any popular social network and due to its architecture fediverse is potentially even more susceptible to it. Without a plan to address it, it is only a matter of time before it becomes an issue (unless it stays a niche small community forever but I am skeptical even those are free from bots and malicious actors)

I haven’t used them much recently but aren’t vue and svelte very similar in terms of difficulty and philosophy?

nah im good lol

bruno seems decent

oh damn i had no idea, thanks! “help” is not where i expected to find it lol

I really wish gimp had a command palette, kinda like the Ctrl+Shift+P thing in VSCode. As a beginner in gimp I often know approximately what I want to do, but not how to find that thing and just being able to type “crop”, “scale”, “add layer” and have it happen would be much easier than having to look for it through various menus.

I still don’t think it’s nearly as convenient as being able to just see the changes side by side and click the one you want (or both). You can even easily modify the final outcome in the 3rd preview panel, in case you need to do a quick fix after a conflict resolution.

This is good advice, thanks. I will definitely get it written down and approved eventually, but the issue is with

It looks very open in your case. Is there no standard or precedent for what you are doing? Something you could lean on?

We’re treading new water and doing stuff that nobody in the company is experienced with. We’re getting some ideas thrown at us but that’s the reason for this topic, I don’t feel knowledgeable yet to decide if they are in the right or if they are selling us hammers they like while we actually need something else.

On the other hand, if I just do the simplest dumbest thing for an MVP, I am again just being a hammer and seeing everything as a nail when I should be learning, adapting and applying the correct tool? I kinda want to use the opportunity and do it better or learn something new.

Were your project managers always so technically capable? In my experience they represent the business and while they have to ultimately sign off for the development to start, they don’t come up with architecture and design of the solution itself - that should come from the developers/engineering team. At the very least the devs propose possible options and their costs/tradeoffs and then the management picks one, but it’s not like they will come down and tell you whether you should use SQL, Postgres, Mongo or w/e database.

(Customer) specifications rarely have technical implementations described down to the most basic detail though. It also won’t account for every possible technical problem that could arise, customers generally don’t know or care about those.

Maybe if you’re a junior in a very professional and experienced company, you can expect the perfect documented jira ticket that could be at that point solved by putting it into chat gpt, but in most cases you will be expected to solve and anticipate the unknowns, especially if you’re in a more senior position.

You are probably right and I just misunderstood fixtures / collections and how they work. I am now trying to configure it using postgres testcontainers and just letting each test create its own but facing a bunch of other issues so not even sure how this works anymore, seems like every tutorial has a different approach. Some just put all the code for creating containers in the setup/dispose of the test class itself instead of trying to be smart with the WebApplicationFactory fixtures and maybe I just end up doing that

My first intent was to just have one local sqlite test db that would get reset to empty state before the tests run (EnsureDeleted+EnsureCreated), and then they all run concurrently on it. It sounded simple to setup and simple enough for my small crud app that only had a few tests.

My second intent was for the framework to create a new in-memory sqlite db for each test so I could fix the problem with tests failing when I’d run all of them at the same time, presumably because they all referenced the same db.

I am currently trying to complicate my life further in the hopes it helps with this by using a postgres database instead, and then in the IntegrationTests project I’m using TestContainers to get a PostgreSqlContainer. I am currently suffering because of some change I made so my tests aren’t even being found anymore now, despite being listed in the test explorer when I run them I get “Test discovery finished: 0 Tests found” in output. Honestly I think I’m just gonna give up integration testing like this, it’s been a complete waste of time so far.

Dunno what else I could say about my project that is relevant, it’s a standard webapp crud with 2 controllers and the integration tests projects has facts like this. Very basic stuff I’d say. Unit tests are a separate project and will just be for simple method checks, no mocking (or at least as little as possible)

Configuring a DbContextFactory in the WebAppFactory instead of a DbContext breaks my services, they can’t resolve DbContext anymore so all requests from my test classes fail. Either I misunderstood you or how this works, but it makes sense - I need to properly fix the injectable DbContext so it fixes it everywhere and not just add a DbContextFactory for test classes while the actual code still injects a DbContext.

Configuring the DbConnection service scope as Transient didn’t change anything.

I might consider efficiency and speed later but for now I’d be happy to just get it working on this simple CRUD app with 2 test classes, I’ve spend hours trying various google solutions and I’m a bit frustrated there is no simple guide for something that should be so seemingly simple at this point.

Ohh I mixed it up with FluentValidations, you are right. I never liked unit tests depending on libraries like that either tbf, vanilla xunit aint that bad either

This whole thing is just a nice reminder to not go overboard and use a 3rd party library when it’s completely unnecessary. I never had a need to use sth like fluent validations when you can do pretty much the same thing by writing the validation method directly in your Dto, it’s a bit verbose but at least it also lets you have more control over the whole thing. Maybe I just never used it on a scale enough to justify the library but it seems completely superfluous, dunno

It’s no reddit in terms of quantity but honesty I’ve had higher quality topics and discussions here than there. Lemmy/kbin might not have taken off in the mainstream to offer a variety of subjects but when it comes to tech and software I think it’s covered well enough and people are generally nicer about it. The main problem is lack of (remotely) good seach function, I dont think the threads are getting indexed by google and the on-site search is atrocious.

I don’t know of any discord programming communities, I wish forums were still a thing but the only live one I know of is the jellyfin one after they moved from reddit. Other than that it’s here or the various subreddits

Is this something like the overseerr but for phones?

If I do all that then my feed is going to be even emptier than it is now

Similar experience here. I have a nicely curated list of people I follow on twitter, they often retweet other users that are similar and I have a nice feed of good content that slowly grows without ever running into toxic assholes. On mastodon I couldn’t get anywhere close to that no matter how much I tried.

I have a mastodon account, I still check it occasionally and I’ve tried making it work a year ago, being active on it and following either people or hashtags. I also tried other networks like bsky and cara, or mastodon through kbin integration. None of them really worked out.

I didn’t have an issue with the technical side as much as with the community and its mentality. They all have this persecution complex where everyone is out to get them and destroy their way of living. They simultaneously claim it’s better and more morally superior than twitter while also responding to any questions or feedback with “if you don’t like it GTFO”. Most of the posts I’ve seen on mastodon seemed masturbatory and/or talking about other social networks and why are they bad than why is mastodon actually good. In many ways it was more toxic and negative than my carefully curated twitter feed. There’s also as much doom and gloom as on twitter, if not more, when it comes to politics (or at least, it’s harder to hide it).

The content in general was bad and boring but I don’t know if this is because of the type of people that are on it or just because the lack of algorithm means I will see any random person’s ramblings next to the biggest breaking news that I’m actually interested in. There is a lack of innovation in this area and it makes discoverability and content curation terrible, I don’t need an algorithm to read my mind but at the very least I wish it could separate trash from actual popular topics.

I found some interesting niches when it comes to FOSS developers and tech but I found next to no actual game devs, artists or content creators on it and even the usual “copy content from twitter” bots were unreliable and uncommon.

TL;DR Mastodon seems very very niche and is not currently viable as a general replacement for other social networks, and IMHO due to the community culture there it’s never going to grow into anything else either.

VScodium

I tried this but it seems that VSCodium is missing many of the extensions that are available on VSCode, it has something to do with them using different extension registries?

In any case thanks for the advice but they don’t seem to be completely equal in terms of features