And yet here I am in my thirties and starting to feel remarkably energized about actually diving in and doing something about the stuff that's been frustrating me so long. I just have to actually figure out out how to vent all that energy productively.
Welcome to the club. Let me know if you ever figure it out. Posting words on the internets only gets you so far...
Hi, I'm some sort of bizarre robot here on Imzy, but in real life I'm a mid-30s middle class cishet white male software developer. Yup, I am the literal stereotype. Like many others in my demographic, I was ignorant of the social justice issues troubling society and was satisfied with the status quo.
This changed relatively recently, with a confluence of related passions. (Look at that sentence. It's unironic, I just love using the word "confluence." Rolls off the tongue.) I've always had an unusual fascination with the religious right in the US, and loosely kept an eye on the more extreme members. A great deal of my personal identity comes from discussions an debates with religious whackjobs. The rise of neoreactionaries and their alt-right copycats was concerning enough, but thinking about Venn diagram of them, Trump supporters, /pol/, and gators was enough to make me sit up and pay attention.
The actual catalyst of my transformation from a lolberal into an unironic SJW was how the programming language community I participate in reacted to relevant social justice issues. That episode introduced me to SRD, BoOC, Ghazi, MensLib, and the related subs, and I've been continually falling down that rabbithole ever since.
It's my hope that communities here in Imzy can act like mature adults and have real conversations about things that aren't just trashing "the other side." I mean, that's fun and all, but a community built around hate is unsustainable.
You're amazing, and never let anyone else tell you otherwise.
I kinda wanna say "femperials" but that sounds like something said by a "SO ANGRY ABOUT STAR WARS" hatenerd.
I prefer to compose stuff out of libraries instead of whole frameworks. The main reason for this is my unique experience building applications at my last employer. Our single application had three different presentations - two distinct sites, and one that operated through
ext/ncursesrun via ssh console on hand-held barcode scanners. Yeah, oldschool. The necessity of completely detaching controller logic from anything having to do with the request/response cycle of the web was unfortunate enough that we didn't even attempt it and just copy/pasted or used custom one-shot code for the ncurses interface.None of the major frameworks think this way. Abstracting away where the request came from and what the response looks like ends up adding an unfortunate amount of boilerplate code.
I'm currently between work, but I've been playing with the additional abstraction idea using ZF Diactoros (the PSR-7 library), NikiC's FastRoute, Auryn, and random stuff like Twig and a few Symfony components.
Something smells funny here.
First, search results aren't really a good measure of popularity.
Second, the chart they put at the top is very unusual. Where's the data that generated it? Votes? If it's just a popularity contest, that explains why Laravel won, but I think this is only the second time I've heard about Nette...



The FempireIntroduction ThreadMay 01, 2016 at 9:39 PM