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on Oct. 9, 2020
Ryan Singer talked about how they (don’t) deal with roadmaps on the Signal v. Noise blog. In short: roadmaps are a bad idea because they can create uncertainty, false expectations, and guilt. My favorite argument against long term roadmaps is the uncertainty. We don’t have a crystal ball. Say we ha…
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on Oct. 8, 2020
If all went well, this post was published automatically. I added the ability to schedule posts on my static blog (built with Hugo). I wrote a short GitHub Action to trigger a build on Netlify every morning. By default, Hugo doesn’t build pages that have a date in the future. During development, you…
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on Oct. 8, 2020
I’m trying something new (well, old): Sublime Text. Sublime was my favourite editor for years. It took me a while to not crave Sublime’s speed in VS Code, but Code’s intelligence and extension ecosystem makes it a worthy competitor. Sublime has a feel that no other editor has. Scrolling, jumping,…
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on Oct. 6, 2020
Today I read “Web Apps Are Not A Thing, Please Stop” by Robin Rendle, who makes a point that we should stop treating websites different from web apps. In the Bay Area there’s this very clear distinction folks make between “websites” and “web apps”. Somehow, the thinking goes, if we make a web app…
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on Oct. 1, 2020
I created the original Spatie guidelines site three years ago. Last month, we consolidated a few of our subsites to our main spatie.be site, including the guidelines. Freek wrote a fresh introduction, and a few team members took some time to re-review the Laravel and JavaScript guidelines before re…
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on Sep. 29, 2020
My colleague Ruben released a new Spatie package to generate type declarations in TypeScript from a Laravel application. We’re writing out types two times: one time in PHP and one time in TypeScript. What will happen if we remove the guitar entry from the enum in PHP? It would still be in the TypeS…