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Chris G replied to a post Dynamically Define For-Loop Increment In ColdFusion

Comment posted September 10, 2024

@Ben Nadel, I clearly don't understand the nuances well enough, but var isn't worth giving up for this one feature alone IMHO! And this comes from someone who has used let and const plenty, but not because I had a deep understanding of them, but rather because I 'assumed' they were better options. W... read entire comment.

Ben Nadel replied to a post Feature Flags Book: Of Outages And Incidents

Comment posted August 31, 2024

@Jeff, That's awesome to hear! It really is a game changer on so many levels. One of the byproducts that I appreciate most about feature flags is the ability to enable more of a grass-roots development effort. As you say, you can pilot features to a group; but, even more so, you can pilot features f... read entire comment.

Jeff Davis replied to a post Feature Flags Book: Of Outages And Incidents

Comment posted August 31, 2024

After over twenty years of development work, mostly web dev, I came out of retirement to take a job at a company that uses a commercial feature flag product. It was my first exposure to feature flagging. The lowering of anxiety in knowing the product could be piloted to groups and gradually introduc... read entire comment.

Chris G replied to a post TODO: Granting Yourself Permission To Move Forward

Comment posted August 27, 2024

I love it when I find a TODO comment in my code. It sometimes reminds me of the complexities which are generally only obvious to the person thinking (very) deeply about the logic. And usually, I find that it was not necessary to complete for the application to provide real value. Most often, I find ... read entire comment.

Ben Nadel replied to a post Exploring Randomness In JavaScript

Comment posted August 14, 2024

@EJ, I know next-to-nothing about color theory. But, in this case, I'm only using one color and changing its opacity; so, I'm not sure if a different color space would have much of an impact. Honestly, evaluating the randomness of an algorithm is a strange thing. Especially when humans don't necessa... read entire comment.

EJ replied to a post Exploring Randomness In JavaScript

Comment posted August 2, 2024

How you sample the color space (RGB, HSV, HSL, Y'UV etc) could have more of an impact on the perception of the randomness than the random number generator itself. For example, see this XKCD post about the fully saturated color perception map in RGB space, which seems to be majority "green". https://... read entire comment.

Will B. replied to a post Code Isn't Magical, It's Just A Series Of Commands

Comment posted August 1, 2024

Who relies on the outputs? is the key question here. Without that information, thoroughly testing a refactor IS scary. Now, proper test case coverage can drastically reduce that fear, but... who has 100% coverage? As for output reliance, that way our particular code is structured, aside from a few <... read entire comment.

samuel replied to a post Code Kata: Building A Tri-State Switch In Alpine.js

Comment posted July 22, 2024

How unbelievably difficult it is to do what is essentially a variable that fits in two bits with still 25% memory wasted should tell us something about how awful the framework is we work in. You have a setter, a getter, a cycle function, a conditional, an array overflow error handler, a class, an in... read entire comment.

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