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I wouldn’t necessarily say OpenAPI and Composer are new technologies, they’re tried and tested and commonplace across most PHP projects. I totally get his point. He’s an older dev who’s sat comfortably for too long with an ageing stack, and now is completely behind the new guys who are coming in from other companies and wanting to change things.

I think the place we disagree is that I believe technology is a place where progression is a hard requirement of the job. Computers get better, customers get more demanding, old solutions improved. You need to improve, every day.

My issue is more when the response to a new piece of minor technology that will make our lives easily is: “I don’t want to learn YAML”.

The thing I worry about is the salary and job responsibilities. The interview for the role was completely different from what I am now doing.

It was advertised as a modernization role, and now I’m just a web developer. Do they expect the interview or the current position?

The Senior doesn’t really know Laravel or any advanced patterns that I’d expect a mid level developer to know.

Company is about 1000 - 3000, with a dev team of about 9.

The probation period is my main worry. The project hinges a lot on me and him working well together, so I don’t want to make that not work, or make it struggle.

There’s usually a pretty solid hierarchy in UK companies, at least from a development side. You have the Junior - Mid-Level - Senior progression. It was the same at my last place (I was actually a Senior on the job role) where you have Juniors under the Mid-Level and Mid-Level under the Senior.

I always listened to other developers though, I saw the role less as a “I’m the boss” position and just that I have more responsibility for what I’m doing. If I didn’t listen to some of the Juniors (who haven’t had the time to gain some bad habits :) ), a lot of good things would have been missed.

I’m from the UK, so that might explain why I’m a bit hesitant to get confrontational. I’m still on my probation period so I don’t want to annoy and lose my role.

I like that, I think it might do some good to level with him and just ask those questions outright. I might see if I can muster up the courage to do that tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your points, there’s some really valuable stuff here.

I’d say he’s in his early 40s, and I try not to be ageist since I’ve had some outstanding older developers that I’ve worked with, but I think he’s perhaps stuck in his ways a little bit.

Unfortunately, it’s just me and him which are building this new API with no other developer involvement. So it’s kind of like a “he said, he said” scenario. Another unfortunate to pile on top of that is that we don’t work in Agile sprints (I’ve worked that for the past 4 years so it’s quite a change for me), so I only speak to the other developers once every 1 - 2 weeks. The only daily contact I have is the “Senior” who is in charge of this specific Laravel project.

I love the idea about sitting with him and talking. At first, he seemed quite cold to me. It warmed up a bit last week but now it’s back to cold, so I’m not sure if I just caught him on a good or bad day, or if I’d said something to upset him.

He was pretty firm about not doing either the OpenAPI or Composer things today, I tried to push a little bit, politely, and just say in the nicest way I could that Google Docs wasn’t the best fit for what we needed and that we’d probably be doubling-up on our work in future. He seems very focused on the time the project will take, and it feels like he sees any suggestions as a burden.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/oak-bark

Ohh, so it seems like bark is edible but wood isn’t. Definitely chimes with other answers above.

What about those dried wood snacks?

Yeah, like Nazis are scared of you.

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WebCord is a working native solution.

The Devs had also upgraded a lot of Electron stuff and security problems that the official Discord client doesn’t do, as well as fix a lot of bugs and issues that Discord haven’t bothered with.

Oh, and if you’re using KDE Plasma, it uses the Qt file picker and not the GTK one.

AppImage is a lot better than Flatpak because it isn’t a walking security nightmare (http://flatkill.org).

But yeah, I got a build working with the PR. I’m not on my computer right now, but it’s a pinned PR in the GitHub issues for the WebCord project. You go to the fork with the branch, you run a couple of quick npm commands and then you can do a build.

I did have to remove a few of the package makers because they’d set it up to do a .deb build, and I haven’t used apt in years. I vaguely think they had a Flatpak or a Snapcraft package maker in there too, but I don’t use those.

You run the make and package commands which you can find in the package.json file, then it outputs a built application for you.

I totally agree, the American system is awful. Germany, on the other hand, has the most beds per person in the G7. Fully insurance driven.

In the UK where there’s universal healthcare, we had Dr. Harold Shipman who murdered a lot, and a current court case with Lucy Letby who killed 8 newborns. Malpractice happens in every system regardless of how it’s funded.

Probably not the place for a discussion about healthcare systems on a meme shitpost thread, but I do think there’s better alternatives to universal healthcare where standards usually drop for everybody. Obviously, there’s some godawful private systems too, just look at America.

How’s the Maths education where you are?

I’ve personally experienced a universal healthcare system and its effects. It killed a family member and almost killed me.

Sorry for that guy’s experiences, but the sort of things he went through are systems and programmes you’d get in most governments throughout the whole political landscape.

Yeah, that’s a fair point about assumption, was a bit silly of me. I’m responding to a few people of the same stance as you so it all kind of blurs into one. Kbin needs some default profile pic rather than a black square.

There is no type of politics that doesn’t affect somebody.

Literally dead? That seems like you’re being dramatic, my guy.

Well, no, that’s perfectly understandable, since those people are impacting other people.

But not everyone who has conservative opinions is a racist and a sexist alt-right weirdo.

Phrasing it that way is really solid and makes a lot of sense.

It’s pure projection. They put up a wall thinking that they’re the ones choosing, but they’re actually the ones that aren’t attractive to others because of the black-and-white way they see the world.