#abstraction clause update

[underlings-cave]

hey so. microsoft released a new terms of use. idk what the hell it all means but i see an updated arbitration clause in here.

can some tech lawyer wizard come look and explain what the hell everything means so i don’t accidentally sell my soul to microsoft or something? thanks.

reblog so we can help each other figure this out please

[bonetrousled]

VILLAINMOTEL BACKSTORY MASTERPOST idk if i’ll update this if i change anything but here’s everyone’s bullshit. spoilers i guess if it ever becomes anything

the city of NEW NEW JERSEY is the hottest superhero and tech hub in the entire country! housed in the state of the same, most heroes (and villains) who travel here want to make it big, and for the state’s original residents, that’s no exception, either.

one group of self-proclaimed supervillains lives together in the formerly-bustling verbena motel, a bed and breakfast that scrapes by using the New New Jersey Supervillain Education Clause which states that a villain cannot be arrested in an educational building (which the motel technically counts as since it houses a library).

MOTEL RESIDENTS

nurse hurtem: medschool drop out who became an underground boxer. originally started boxing to make money for student loans, but found out she liked it more than becoming a doctor. grew up with absent business-minded parents who tossed her into various schools for troubled youth since she would act out for attention. unofficial leader of the verbena motel villain team! sarcastic, snarky, and quick to anger, but sisterly at heart

trajothaddeus “traj” captio: nepobaby alien crashing here to hide from intergalactic authorities on fraud charges. heir to the throne of a vast scrapping empire (but unwilling to get his hands dirty), he was taught from a young age to let others do the work for him. talks big game about receiving checks from his father, but refuses to reveal that he’s been excommunicated. surprisingly good inventor and engineer! currently running influencer scams despite having three followers. stuck-up, dramatic, and organized

misery: psychic delinquent teen child of famous abstract fashion designer parents. sent to a school for troubled youth after an incident where they exploded a salad bar with their mind at school. has the ability to speak to spirits and manipulate shadows, along with telekinesis. weirdgirl supreme. always staring at people. usually has bugs in pocket. doesn’t talk often or emote outwardly, but their intentions are in the right place. offputting, genuine, and quiet

KEVIN LASTNAME: amnesiac deity of ultimate destruction. during an incident roughly a year ago where a group of teens summoned him on accident and he was attacked out of fear in his fragile, freshly-formed state, he was injured severely and staggered in the night until he came across the motel. knocking on the door and seeking refuge, he was then concussed a second time at the door because hurtem saw a twelve foot tall skeleton thing and was scared. on coming to, he had no idea of any aspect of his past or where he came from. scared of modern technology. too strong for his own good, resulting in being the muscle of the team. incredibly loud, blunt, and frankly stupid as rocks, but he tries his best. powers include whatever i think is funny

the lobotomizer: co-founder of the motel with her mafioso wife, betty bundtcake. used to date big tech mogul franka richter, but was murdered by her after seeing something she shouldn’t have. she qaunlived out of sheer spite, piecing herself together until she was whole again- at the price of her sanity. she and her wife made the motel out of necessity for those needing a little help hiding from the law (or anyone really) or just a place to stay. means well and cares for those she loves, but can be (always is) unethical in her studies and experiments. good-natured, humorous, and slightly off-kilter. has a zombie wiener-ish dog named frankie.

NNJ JUNOR HERO LEAGUE

secret admirer: a programming and engineering whiz, along with having healing powers and enhanced speed, she's a shoe in for the NNJ junior hero league. cares deeply about her teammates and hopes they're able to stick together once they all graduate into the big league. caring, passionate, but tends to be too modest for her own good

high roller: has the power of supernaturally high luck. originally put this to use at the big casino in the city, but was caught and recruited to the junior league as an alternative to legal punishment. found out she likes the attention from hero work more than the pay (which is still rather decent) and has been on the right side of the law ever since. a little bit of a show off, good-spirited, and witty

screwloose: former quantum physicist permanently altered after an experiment gone wrong. now abides by toon logic and physics and has gone completely insane. loose cannon of the group, forcibly entered into the league by the hero council of the city due to the potential danger they could put the city in with their powers. they only stay because it's entertaining. unpredictable, snarky, and irresponsible

phenomenon: also entered the league willingly. general generic superstrength type hero, though he's got a huge heart, for better or for worse. along with this he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he always lifts all of his teammates up and to victory! kind, sensitive, loyal, and a little oblivious

adam "the intern" subtract: who is this guy?? whatever. he can make more or less of certain objects. kind of sucks ngl

MISC. CHARACTERS

wilbur "riff" captio: older brother to traj. got the short end of the stick nepotism-wise and received poor treatment on the job and all through life in general. his father tested a workplace-boosting energy drink on him that left him permanently scarred and prone to transforming into a giant beast, so he packed his shit and left. was hunted by traj for years on a mission from their father to drag him back to work, but has managed to evade capture since traj was exiled. currently working as a con-man selling bullshit outside of casinos and in those little kiosks in the middle of mall aisles

megabyte: vampire computer virus supervillain, and 1/6 of the NNJ Official Villain Council (which is not legally recognized by the government). feeds by draining electricity and data from machinery, and can infect other mechanical beings or devices to sap energy for her for limited periods of time. has a little lightbulb themed cronie named wattson. incredibly cheesy, snooty, and not actually that evil

franka richter: born without powers, she had to scrape to the top through will alone, all while battling the unexpected heart failure of her young adult love, laura albrecht. current founder and CEO of PHYSM, a company that makes basically everything in the area and sponsors the hero league- though they're most famous for smartphones and home assistants a la google. known publicly as a major philanthropist and community pillar, though that couldn't be farther from the truth. retired heroes keep going missing or being found dead. nobody is investigating. everything is fine.

[springbordrealestateservices]

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Lease Abstraction

Lease abstraction is a crucial process that helps organizations manage their real estate portfolios effectively. However, there are common pitfalls that can lead to costly errors and inefficiencies.

Understanding these mistakes and how to prevent them is key to achieving better outcomes.

1. Inconsistent Terminology

One of the most frequent errors is inconsistent use of lease terminology. This can create confusion and misinterpretations, especially when multiple team members are involved. 

To prevent this, establish a standardized glossary of terms that everyone can reference. This consistency ensures clarity in communication and documentation.

2. Overlooking Key Clauses

Another common mistake is failing to prioritize critical clauses, such as payment terms, renewal options, and termination rights. These sections are essential for understanding obligations and avoiding disputes. 

To mitigate this risk, create a checklist that highlights the most important clauses to review during the abstraction process.

3. Lack of Regular Updates

Leases can change, and not keeping abstracts up-to-date can lead to compliance issues and missed opportunities. Schedule regular reviews of lease abstracts to ensure they reflect the latest terms and conditions. 

Implementing a routine check can help you stay ahead of potential problems.

4. Relying Solely on Manual Processes

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[reboleaseblog]

Keeping your lease portfolio updated is not a one-time process. It entails updating your lease abstracts with the information in newly executed amendments, abatements, or deferral clauses.

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5 Sertifikasi PHP Terbaik Tahun 2021 yang Wajib Anda Miliki

PHP adalah bahasa pemrograman umum yang sering dipakai dalam pembuatan dan pengembangan suatu web. Saat ini banyak perusahaan yang menggunakan web sebagai media promosi mereka. Oleh karena itu, kebutuhan akan PHP Developer semakin meningkat ditahun ini. Nah bagi kalian yang merupakan IT freshgraduate dan ingin menjadi programmer PHP , wajib mengikuti sertifikasi PHP. Apa saja sih sertifikasi yang bisa Anda dapatkan? berikut ulasannya.

5 Sertifikasi PHP Terbaik Tahun 2021

1. Zend Certified PHP Engineer

Sertifikasi Zend ini sudah diakui di seluruh dunia karena memberkan pelatihan PHP yang baik. Pelatihan ini juga sangat cocok untuk programmer PHP menengah (berpengalaman). Zend juga menyelenggarakan kelas di semua tingkatan dan membantu kandidat dalam mempersiapkan ujian.

Kurikulum pelatihan

PHP Basics – basic syntax, operators, variables, namespace, constructs, functions, config, etc.

Functions – arguments, references, returns, type declarations, anonymous functions, the scope of variables.

Data types and format – XML, web services, SOAP, JSON, DOMDocument, DateTime.

Web features – sessions, forms, get, post, cookies, HTTP header, HTTP authentication, status codes.

OOP – inheritance, interface, return type, reflection, autoload, static binding, SPL, traits, magic methods.

Security – configuration, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, session security, filter input, encryption, hashing, password hashing API, etc.

I/O – Files, reading, writing, file system functions, contexts, streams.

Strings and patterns – Quoting, Matching, Extracting, Searching, Replacing, Formatting, PCRE, NOWDOC, Encodings.

Database and SQL – SQL, joins, prepared statements, transactions, PDO.

Arrays – iteration, functions, associative arrays, objects as arrays, casting, SPL.

Handling exceptions and errors.

2. W3Schools PHP Certification

Ini adalah sertifikat untuk pemula dan dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan Anda. Dalam ujiannya nanti, Anda harus menunjuk seorang supervisor, yang akan mengawasi Anda selama ujian. Nama dari pengawas ujian Anda juga akan dicantumkan dalam sertifikat Anda nanti. Sebaiknya pilih manajer atau mentor Anda untuk menjadi supervisor yang memiliki kredibilitas tinggi. W3Schools juga menyediakan banyak sumber daya seperti tutorial dan kuis sehingga Anda dapat mempersiapkan ujian dengan baik.

Kurikulum pelatihan

Installation and set-up, introduction

Syntax, comments, variables, print statement

Data types, strings, arrays, numbers, constants

Operators, control statements, switch loops.

Functions

Arrays

Form handling, validations

Date/Time, basic I/O operations

Basic OOP concepts – inheritance, abstract classes, traits, static methods and properties

3. Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Certification Courses from Udemy

Hal terbaik yang bisa Anda dapatkan ketika mengikuti kursus sertifikasi dari Udemy adalah Anda dapat belajar sesuai kemampuan Anda sendiri. Terdapat beberapa kursus yang bisa Anda ikuti seperti ;

Beginner Course

Ini adalah pealatihan sertifikasi yang sangat cocok untuk pemula dan mencakup PHP serta MySQL. Melalui kursus ini, Anda akan mampu membangun aplikasi web berbasis database.

Kurikulum pelatihan

Overview of PHP – variables, syntax, strings, keywords, operators, conditional and switch statements, loops, functions, form handling, and validation, outputting data, arrays, database administration

Overview of MySQL – administering and defining database users and roles, Prepared Statements, updating records, insertion of multiple records, select, where clause, etc.

Integration of PHP and MySQL (PhpMyAdmin)

Advanced Course

Jika Anda sudah pernah membuat satu atau lebih proyek dengan PHP dan memahami konsep dasar PHP, Anda dapat mengikuti kursus ini. Kursus ini akan memandu Anda membuat kerangka kerja MVC khusus, dan membangun aplikasi menggunakan PHP.

4. PHP Certification Course for Intermediate Learners

Kursus sertifikasi Coursera ini disediakan oleh profesor dari berbagai universitas dan perusahaan bergengsi. Banyak perguruan tinggi dan universitas lebih memilih dan merekomendasikan kursus Coursera ini untuk siswanya. Kursus ini adalah seri pengembangan web 4 kursus yang ditawarkan oleh University of Michigan.

Kurikulum pelatihan

Introductory knowledge about HTML, CSS, HTTP request/response, GET, POST

Syntax and data structure of PHP, variables, functions, arrays, iterations, error handling, superglobal variables, forms, etc.…

Installation of integrated PHP/SQL environment like XAMPP or MAMP

5. PHP Developer Certification

Kursus sertifikasi ini bisa Anda dapatkan dari LinkedIn. Untuk materinya sendiri akan mengajarkan PHP dari awal. Banyak video dan konten pembelajaran seputar PHP yang bisa Anda pelajari. Di LinkedIn, Anda akan mendapatkan lencana penyelesaian, yang nantinya bisa digunakan di profil LinkedIn profesional Anda untuk menampilkan pencapaian tersebut. Sama seperti Coursera, pembayaran di LinkedIn adalah per bulan dan bukan per kursus, yang mencakup akses ke banyak kursus dan fitur LinkedIn lainnya.

Kurikulum pelatihan

Programming algorithms and fundamentals

Introduction to PHP, PHP & MySQL

Adding dynamic content using Ajax

OOP

MVC framework for building PHP web apps

Basics of GitHub, PHPUnit

Creating secure websites with PHP

Baca juga : 5 Sertifikasi SQL Terbaik untuk Meningkatkan Karir Anda di Tahun 2021

[greek-grammar-blog]

Terms

I felt that before I continue with unraveling the grammar of the Greek language, I would delve into common grammatical terms that people may have unfortunately been the victim of missing during educational years or might be a bit foggy on.

I feel it would be important to bring this information into one concise post, as opposed to having to constantly do any searches to find something I might be lacking with a definition. Ill start with some of the more common terms that may seem more on the obvious side and go from there as they are in English, and relate when needed to Modern Greek.

Keep in mind, this list is by no means a complete or in-depth list that dives into deeper concepts like clauses and phrases, fragments etc. However, it will begin in assuming a very limited knowledge of grammatical components in the English language, that may or may not be present in other languages.

*This post will be updated with any corrections or additional information in the future, some future posts may reference the terms within this post*

Nouns: These words are some of the most commonly occurring, and include people, places, things/objects, and abstract concepts. This would be your cats, bicycle(s), John or Jeanette, and their thoughts, hopes, dreams and goals.

Adjectives: These words are modifiers to nouns. For example, these would be Red cars, gray hairs, beautiful flowers.

Verbs: These words are our actions. These are what you use when you want to say that you Run, or that you Sit for inordinate amounts of time at work.

Adverb: These mainly modify Nouns, verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. You can find out what the adverb of a sentence is by asking questions such as when, in what way, how, etc. So for an example, If we know that the dog ran quickly then we know how the dog ran, answering that question, and are able to see that it modifies the past tense verb ran. We can also find out that the shadow will swiftly dart out from the darkness, knowing that ‘swiftly’ is modifying the future tense of the verb phrase - will dart -.

Declension: This is the change in form in a noun, adjective or adverb based off of the number of an object, the case, or gender of the word; ο Σκύλος (M), η γιαγιά (F), το παιδί (Ν).

Conjugation: This is the change in a verb to reflect the change in tense, mood, or voice. Ex. Τρέχω -> Τρέχει (I run -> He, she, it runs)  Είμαι ->Ημούν (I am -> I was).

Articles: These are used with nouns mostly, and will allow you to know whether the object is definite or indefinite. What this means is, in its roughest and simplest way, that you have a difference between THE object(s) (definite, can be singular or plural) and A/AN object (indefinite, singular).

Preposition: These are words that bridge some nouns together within a sentence to give additional meaning, some of which include: For, at, in , over, on. Hen in use they could be found when The dog sits in the street (bold to show the nouns being bridged, italics to show the preposition)

Particles: These are small words that are used similarly to prepositions, but are not classified as such, these may include some prepositions such as; along, to, the.

Gerund: This is an adverbial form of a verb. Basically, in English this is when you take a verb such as Run and add -ning to make it running, or the -ing to fish to make fishing. This works the same in modern Greek, but with a different conjugation.

Direct Object: The person or object that is the recipient of the verb/action within a sentence. Ex. I pet the dog

Indirect Object: The person or object that is a second-hand recipient of an action. EX. The cat brought me a bird. (in the example the bird is the direct object being brought by the cat, and “me” would be the person or object that is receiving the action of being brought the bird.

[superlinguo]

New Article Published: A grammatical overview of Yolmo (Tibeto-Burman) - and an introduction to the WikiJournal of the Humanities

This new article gives a basic overview of the grammar of the Yolmo language. I’m excited to share it, because it’s the first time I’ve systematically drawn together resources on the different dialects of the language, including those worked on by other people (Hari’s work on the Melamchi variety) and my own work on the Lamjung and Ilam varieties as well as the closely related Syuba language. I’m also excited because it’s one of the first articles in the new WikiJournal of the Humanities.

I’ve been slowly improving the Yolmo Language Wikipedia page for years, because Wikipedia is still one of the most read websites on the internet, and the place most people are likely to learn about a language. This meant that I already had the basis of a good encyclopedic article, the kind of thing you might find in The Sino-Tibetan Languages handbook or something similar (without the $420 price tag).

WikiJournals are set up as part of the larger WikiMedia family, which includes Wikipedia. There are a number of benefits to publishing an article in a WikiJournal:

It motivated me to to one final push to round out some sections of the article I’d been putting off

It creates a ‘version of record’, which can still be updated but is easier to cite because the content is stable

Because it’s a journal article, not an encyclopedia, there is more scope for speculation, and a bit of original research

It’s a peer-reviewed journal article, and so I get some academic credit for my time spent improving Wikipedia

I decided to essentially draft the document on the Wikipedia page. Once I was happy with it, I created a Wikiversity account for myself, and copied the content across to submit as a pre-print. There were a few changes to make, such as writing an abstract, and adding some more speculative thoughts about the relationship between the dialects for which there aren’t any good citable sources (yet... I’m working on it). Some lessons learnt in this process: set up your account 24-28 hours before editing, otherwise they tend to think you’re a bot. I had some trouble editing the template myself, but I’ve been told they’ve fixed that. Also, the visual editor that makes editing Wikipedia such a breeze is not turned on automatically - you have to go into your settings and in the ‘beta’ section choose the visual editor as an option.

Overall, I found the peer review experience very positive, as I was fortunate enough to have reviewers who understood the grammar overview genre, and were familiar with Wikipedia style. The whole peer review process is run on the Wikipedia model, where everything is documented publically. You can see the reviewer comments and my responses by going to the Discuss tab on the article.

Abstract

Yolmo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepal. Also known as Helambu Sherpa, it is a Tibetic language. This article gives an overview of the language, including information about the dialects spoken, history of documentation, and a grammatical overview. The grammatical overview brings together work on different dialects, providing an outline of the sound system, noun phrase, verb phrase and clause structure.

Gawne, L; et al. (2019). "A grammatical overview of Yolmo (Tibeto-Burman)". WikiJournal 1(2): 2. DOI: 10.15347/wjh/2019.002

[looplegal]

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[merrillmastersenglish]

Discussion Post 3:

Prompt:

In graduate school, we are more self-conscious scholars.  We begin to question what our field consists of, or we uncover problems and suggest solutions or new directions.  The first half of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's Updating to Remain the Same focuses on abstract media theories.  Yet, one of her more compelling ideas is that most of us are driven to keep up with our technology because of the following formula: Habit + Crisis = Update.  Because of this model, Chun elaborates, "Just when we are finally accustomed to something, it changes" (69).

Write an original post of 1-2 paragraphs where you discuss how you, your job, and/or your family and friends negotiate this formula in your everyday lives.

In part 1 of her book Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, author and researcher Wendy Hui Kyong Chun spends a plethora of time and pages describing the role that habit plays into change. Chun argues that habit is defined in several ways-- some of which are a bit contradictory:

1. Habit is a form of dependency (4)

2. Habit is culture become second nature (5)

3. Habit enables stability (6)

4. Habit prevents class warfare (7)

5. Habit keeps us all within bounds of ordinance (7)

6. Habits can bind us (8)

7. Habits can awaken us (8)

8. Habits are acquired (8)

9. Habits cause skill formation (9)

10. Habits are projected links based on frequent and potential repetition (53)

11. Information is habit (53)

12. Habit is the key to determining probablity (54)

13. Habit can falsify experience. (55)

14. Habit enables radical change (89)

Because of the sheer amount of “habits are” that Chun provides to the reader, it would be impossible for habits not to impact a person in their daily lives. In fact, habits are everywhere and everything. Habits are the repetitions that we go through every day-- going to work at the same time, eating supper at the same time, posting discussion responses-- even the lack of a habit can be a habit. For example-- I may not have a great habit of reading or writing over a long period of time, but when I have deadlines it is my habit to procrastinate until just before the deadline. My students, my children, my husband-- many of us share this same “skill”-- you know, since habits create skill. On second thought, I’m just going to start referring to procrastination as my greatest skills. :)

The second part of the equation that Chun proposes is crisis. Crisis, according to Chun is a habit change. Crisis is not really that much of a crisis in the United States though-- because as Chun asserts, “neoliberalism thrives on crises: it makes crises ordinary” (3). Crisis may seem pressing when we recognize it, but we often live in a perpetual state of crisis-- some of the crises that exist in our lives may be present but not realized. Crisis then, like habit, can be a natural state that we all live in. 

When we do realize the crisis though, the knowledge of its existence should realistically challenge the habits that support the crisis’s continued existence. The problem with this theory though is that we live in a networked society, and networks work to stabilize a series of crises, and according to Chun-- create bubbles in time (27). Networks of people or ideas actively resist change, and in doing so-- create a sustained period of crises in the lives of people. 

I found myself thinking back to the “Trump Era” a lot while reading this first part because I felt like we were constantly in a state of crisis.  On the other hand, republicans that I know thought the opposite true-- that Trump was a solution to the crisis that exists in our society. The two networks of people (democrats and republicans) played a tug of war that seemed to last forever (and in fact-- that still persists). The result was that many progressives lived in a state of perpetual protest-- fighting for change and equality that they saw being stifled by the administration-- while republicans fought for the continuation of policies because they saw them as a return to practices that they saw as being the founding principals of this country. Political issues are one of the easiest places to notice both habit, crisis and change in action. For example: Habit: cops have engrained bias towards POC and therefore use excessive force more often.  Crisis: video footage by civilians brings this issue to light by highlighting the prevalence of this bias in action. Change: Policy introduction, police prosecution, and attitude change because of the visibility of evidence contrary to popular thought create new systems or propositions. Some could argue that the videotaping of police in general is a quantifiable change that can be observed as a result of the continued brutality.

When I think about the changes that are most close to me though-- and the perpetuation of systems that claim to address the crisis but ultimately work to continue it-- I think of education in general. In education radical teachers are ones who buck against the system and who don’t conform to the norms that are in place. Radical teachers are often stymied by the system because they bounce from school to school due to the administrations’ sheer avoidance of change and their active repelling of it. Radical thinking is not condoned by the network of professionals in the education field, and as a result-- over time-- habit drives these teachers into submission. UNLESS there is a crisis to prompt change. A great example of this lies in the documentary  Precious Knowledge which follows teachers in the Tucson Unified School District who teach a curriculum around Chicano and Chicana history.  This program was designed to empower students to learn through a different lens-- and the aim was ultimately to increase graduation numbers and to empower students to be active participants in their society and lives. It was a radical idea though because it challenged the norm of whitewashed history in classrooms. As a result, people who were in the more republican/white network were uncomfortable with this challenge, and pushed back against it. Change may have been impossible if those teachers and students simply accepted the decisions passed down by the TUSD school board, but they did not. Instead, they actively worked to network and create a message that countered the dominant narrative, by providing information to the masses about their program. The result?  Change. TUSD cut the program, but teachers running the program along with students who had benefitted from it took the issue to a higher court. Ultimately the court ruled in their favor-- finding that the state and superintendent of school districts violated the equal protection clause because the removal of the classes were based solely on racial animus (Wikipedia). 

Habit + Crisis = Change also personally relates to me because of the non-stop battle I have fought with the school district my son attends in this year. My son, Azure, is a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and Anxiety. Azure is high functioning, but has always been a level 3 special education student until last year-- when his progress was so significant that he skipped a grade AND was moved to a level 2 special education. On March 13, 2020 we moved from Saint Paul, MN to Brooklyn Center, MN and as a result-- Azure had to change schools. March 13 was also the exact same time that ALL schools in the state of Minnesota closed their doors “out of an abundance of caution” because of COVID. Now, I’m not sure if it was because of the hustle bustle of COVID or because of the incompetence of the officials working in the school, but somehow-- Azure’s incoming IEP noted that he would be a “level 1″ student. This means that whereas Azure was a student who previously received 60% of his education in the special education room, he would now receive only 10% of his time in the special education classroom. In addition to this all, Azure went through a variety of changes that were a direct result of COVID-- including several model shifts. This spot on his IEP was small, and as a parent I had placed (probably too much) trust into the school professionals and assumed that the service levels my son would receive would be comparable to what he was receiving at his previous school-- it wasn’t. Azure experienced near constant dysregulation when placed back in the classroom full-time. He was often being sent home, or I was being called to come get him early. All of these things came to a head when the principal decided that Azure was to be suspended for throwing a pencil case. So, I get it-- not the best action-- but it was a direct result of dysregulation that happened because the staff at the school were changing his routine without giving him advanced warning. In a phone call from the principal he noted that he didn’t understand why I was saying that Azure was a level 2 SPED because he was listed as a level 1. My eyes were open-- we had a crisis-- Azure was dysregulating at school and as a result I kicked into action. I demanded all IEP drafts, PWNs and any other documentation that the school had. I demanded that the school move Azure-- they refused. I filed a complaint with the state of Minnesota DOE, and wrote a long email citing case law about education. When challenged enough, the network of educators resisting change-- backed down. They did not back down from my MDE complaint though-- in fact, they pushed back.  In the end, I am going to win this fight. The MDE investigator has noted to me that these changes that the school district made were inappropriate. They are going to be required to “reimburse” Azure the 10500 service minutes that they shorted him during the school year. They are going to be required to provide services that he needs. Change is going to happen. 

The problem with change on this scale is that it is personal and I can’t guarantee that it is systemic. I need the systemic change because as an educator I see a problem with my field that NEEDS to change so that neurodiverse students can survive and thrive in public education institutions. I will be using this experience to drive my research for the consultation and working to find the systemic change I desire as a result. It is the habit of school districts to ignore or try to minimize the money they spend on special education students. It is the habit of school districts to focus their teaching on neurotypical students.  Crisis is happening across the spectrum of education, and it has and will continue to result in change when people network and push back. 

I don’t see a place or space where this theory doesn’t hold truth. Innovation and change is always the result of something going wrong. If we don’t find fault in something, what is the motivation to change it?  

My final thought about the first part of this book is this: Chun suggests that we do not “defer a future for another future” because it is problematic and “it is itself a haunting” (91) which harkens back to the words of my favorite poet-- Langston Hughes in one of his most seminole works: Dream Deferred:

“What happens to a dream deferred?       Does it dry up

     like a raisin in the sun?      Or fester like a sore—      And then run?      Does it stink like rotten meat?      Or crust and sugar over—      like a syrupy sweet?      Maybe it just sags      like a heavy load.      Or does it explode?”

What I am saying is-- we can’t ignore the crises because they are a deferment of the dreams we have of our future, and we don’t know what the consequences of ignoring those things would be -- but we also do know what the consequences currently are so to ignore is to remain stuck and to continue to perpetuate problems. Crisis may be uncomfortable, but it is also completely necessary for change. 

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The Chiefs are entering a time area these specifics are abstraction the approaching of the franchise. Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jones are both due massive new deals in the advancing year, and the way these affairs are structured will affect the Chiefs for the abutting half-decade. Compassionate how these new affairs assignment back they are alive will let admirers apperceive what to apprehend from the Chiefs activity into the future.

In this multi-part alternation on NFL contracts, I’ll accord the album on aggregate admirers should apperceive about NFL contracts.

In adjustment to aboriginal accept NFL contracts, a basal compassionate of the agreement and systems that go into NFL affairs is needed. With aloof an compassionate of these basal parts, a fan already can alpha chargeless the affection of deals players sign.

Base bacon is the foundation for affairs for every NFL player. Players acquire their abject bacon by aloof actuality on the team’s agenda during the year. Players are accustomed their abject bacon pay in 17 installments (for the 16-game schedule), one per anniversary during the season. Abject bacon can be non-guaranteed or affirmed depending on assorted clauses and conditions. Abject bacon is the aggregate of the money that players lose back they get cut, as any accepted year or approaching year abject salaries are absent back a amateur is cut unless they are guaranteed.

One affair that is somewhat alien is that not all affirmed money is the same. There are three types of affirmed money that teams can use back amalgam a contract.

The best-known anatomy of affirmed money is affirmed for injury. Abrasion guarantees appear into aftereffect if a amateur is appear but is clumsy to partake in football activities or canyon a physical.

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In June 2019, Prisma 2 Preview was released. Prisma 1 changed the way we interact with databases. We could access databases through plain JavaScript methods and objects without having to write the query in the database language itself. Prisma 1 acted as an abstraction in front of the database so it was easier to make CRUD (create, read, update and delete) applications.

Prisma 1 architecture looked like this:

Notice that there’s an additional Prisma server required for the back end to access the database. The latest version doesn’t require an additional server. It's called The Prisma Framework (formerly known as Prisma 2) which is a complete rewrite of Prisma. The original Prisma was written in Scala, so it had to be run through JVM and needed an additional server to run. It also had memory issues.

The Prisma Framework is written in Rust so the memory footprint is low. Also, the additional server required while using Prisma 1 is now bundled with the back end, so you can use it just like a library.

The Prisma Framework consists of three standalone tools:

Photon: a type-safe and auto-generated database client ("ORM replacement")

Lift: a declarative migration system with custom workflows

Studio: a database IDE that provides an Admin UI to support various database workflows.

Photon is a type-safe database client that replaces traditional ORMs, and Lift allows us to create data models declaratively and perform database migrations. Studio allows us to perform database operations through a beautiful Admin UI.

Why use Prisma?

Prisma removes the complexity of writing complex database queries and simplifies database access in the application. By using Prisma, you can change the underlying databases without having to change each and every query. It just works. Currently, it only supports mySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL.

Prisma provides type-safe database access provided by an auto-generated Prisma client. It has a simple and powerful API for working with relational data and transactions. It allows visual data management with Prisma Studio.

Providing end-to-end type-safety means developers can have confidence in their code, thanks to static analysis and compile-time error checks. The developer experience increases drastically when having clearly defined data types. Type definitions are the foundation for IDE features — like intelligent auto-completion or jump-to-definition.

Prisma unifies access to multiple databases at once (coming soon) and therefore drastically reduces complexity in cross-database workflows (coming soon).

It provides automatic database migrations (optional) through Lift, based on a declarative datamodel expressed using GraphQL's schema definition language (SDL).

Prerequisites

For this tutorial, you need a basic knowledge of React. You also need to understand React Hooks.

Since this tutorial is primarily focused on Prisma, it’s assumed that you already have a working knowledge of React and its basic concepts.

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Throughout the course of this tutorial, we’ll be using yarn. If you don’t have yarn already installed, install it from here.

To make sure we’re on the same page, these are the versions used in this tutorial:

Node v12.11.1

npm v6.11.3

npx v6.11.3

yarn v1.19.1

prisma2 v2.0.0-preview016.2

react v16.11.0

Folder Structure

Our folder structure will be as follows:

streaks-app/ client/ server/

The client/ folder will be bootstrapped from create-react-app while the server/ folder will be bootstrapped from prisma2 CLI.

So you just need to create a root folder called streaks-app/ and the subfolders will be generated while scaffolding it with the respective CLIs. Go ahead and create the streaks-app/ folder and cd into it as follows:

$ mkdir streaks-app && cd $_

The Back End (Server Side)

Bootstrap a new Prisma 2 project

You can bootstrap a new Prisma 2 project by using the npx command as follows:

$ npx prisma2 init server

Alternatively, you can install prisma2 CLI globally and run the init command. The do the following:

$ yarn global add prisma2 // or npm install --global prisma2 $ prisma2 init server

Run the interactive prisma2 init flow & select boilerplate

Select the following in the interactive prompts:

Select Starter Kit

Select JavaScript

Select GraphQL API

Select SQLite

Once terminated, the init command will have created an initial project setup in the server/ folder.

Now open the schema.prisma file and replace it with the following:

generator photon { provider = "photonjs" } datasource db { provider = "sqlite" url = "file:dev.db" } model Habit { id String @default(cuid()) @id name String @unique streak Int }

schema.prisma contains the data model as well as the configuration options.

Here, we specify that we want to connect to the SQLite datasource called dev.db as well as target code generators like photonjs generator.

Then we define the data model Habit, which consists of id, name and streak.

id is a primary key of type String with a default value of cuid().

name is of type String, but with a constraint that it must be unique.

streak is of type Int.

The seed.js file should look like this:

const { Photon } = require('@generated/photon') const photon = new Photon() async function main() { const workout = await photon.habits.create({ data: { name: 'Workout', streak: 49, }, }) const running = await photon.habits.create({ data: { name: 'Running', streak: 245, }, }) const cycling = await photon.habits.create({ data: { name: 'Cycling', streak: 77, }, }) const meditation = await photon.habits.create({ data: { name: 'Meditation', streak: 60, }, }) console.log({ workout, running, cycling, meditation, }) } main() .catch(e => console.error(e)) .finally(async () => { await photon.disconnect() })

This file creates all kinds of new habits and adds it to the SQLite database.

Now go inside the src/index.js file and remove its contents. We'll start adding content from scratch.

First go ahead and import the necessary packages and declare some constants:

const { GraphQLServer } = require('graphql-yoga') const { makeSchema, objectType, queryType, mutationType, idArg, stringArg, } = require('nexus') const { Photon } = require('@generated/photon') const { nexusPrismaPlugin } = require('nexus-prisma')

Now let’s declare our Habit model just below it:

const Habit = objectType({ name: 'Habit', definition(t) { t.model.id() t.model.name() t.model.streak() }, })

We make use of objectType from the nexus package to declare Habit.

The name parameter should be the same as defined in the schema.prisma file.

The definition function lets you expose a particular set of fields wherever Habit is referenced. Here, we expose id, name and streak field.

If we expose only the id and name fields, only those two will get exposed wherever Habit is referenced.

Below that, paste the Query constant:

const Query = queryType({ definition(t) { t.crud.habit() t.crud.habits() // t.list.field('habits', { // type: 'Habit', // resolve: (_, _args, ctx) => { // return ctx.photon.habits.findMany() // }, // }) }, })

We make use of queryType from the nexus package to declare Query.

The Photon generator generates an API that exposes CRUD functions on the Habit model. This is what allows us to expose t.crud.habit() and t.crud.habits() method.

t.crud.habit() allows us to query any individual habit by its id or by its name. t.crud.habits() simply returns all the habits.

Alternatively, t.crud.habits() can also be written as:

t.list.field('habits', { type: 'Habit', resolve: (_, _args, ctx) => { return ctx.photon.habits.findMany() }, })

Both the above code and t.crud.habits() will give the same results.

In the above code, we make a field named habits. The return type is Habit. We then call ctx.photon.habits.findMany() to get all the habits from our SQLite database.

Note that the name of the habits property is auto-generated using the pluralize package. It's therefore recommended practice to name our models singular — that is, Habit and not Habits.

We use the findMany method on habits, which returns a list of objects. We find all the habits as we have mentioned no condition inside of findMany. You can learn more about how to add conditions inside of findMany here.

Below Query, paste Mutation as follows:

const Mutation = mutationType({ definition(t) { t.crud.createOneHabit({ alias: 'createHabit' }) t.crud.deleteOneHabit({ alias: 'deleteHabit' }) t.field('incrementStreak', { type: 'Habit', args: { name: stringArg(), }, resolve: async (_, { name }, ctx) => { const habit = await ctx.photon.habits.findOne({ where: { name, }, }) return ctx.photon.habits.update({ data: { streak: habit.streak + 1, }, where: { name, }, }) }, }) }, })

Mutation uses mutationType from the nexus package.

The CRUD API here exposes createOneHabit and deleteOneHabit.

createOneHabit, as the name suggests, creates a habit whereas deleteOneHabit deletes a habit.

createOneHabit is aliased as createHabit, so while calling the mutation we call createHabit rather than calling createOneHabit.

Similarly, we call deleteHabit instead of deleteOneHabit.

Finally, we create a field named incrementStreak, which increments the streak of a habit. The return type is Habit. It takes an argument name as specified in the args field of type String. This argument is received in the resolve function as the second argument. We find the habit by calling ctx.photon.habits.findOne() while passing in the name parameter in the where clause. We need this to get our current streak. Then finally we update the habit by incrementing the streak by 1.

Below Mutation, paste the following:

const photon = new Photon() new GraphQLServer({ schema: makeSchema({ types: [Query, Mutation, Habit], plugins: [nexusPrismaPlugin()], }), context: { photon }, }).start(() => console.log( `🚀 Server ready at: http://localhost:4000\n⭐️ See sample queries: http://pris.ly/e/js/graphql#5-using-the-graphql-api`, ), ) module.exports = { Habit }

We use the makeSchema method from the nexus package to combine our model Habit, and add Query and Mutation to the types array. We also add nexusPrismaPlugin to our plugins array. Finally, we start our server at localhost:4000. Port 4000 is the default port for graphql-yoga. You can change the port as suggested here.

Let's start the server now. But first, we need to make sure our latest schema changes are written to the node_modules/@generated/photon directory. This happens when you run prisma2 generate.

If you haven't installed prisma2 globally, you'll have to replace prisma2 generate with ./node_modules/.bin/prisma2 generate. Then we need to migrate our database to create tables.

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Energy Dept. Asks Scientists to Remove 'Climate Change' from Grant Proposal by Sabrina Shankman

“A long-standing pillar of the U.S. research model is the belief that science should not be constrained or influenced by partisan politics," Northeastern University wrote. Credit: Mike Mueller/Energy Department

The scientists say the unusual request connected to a government grant under Trump won't change how they do the research or report the findings.

Last month, two scientists got news that any researcher would want to hear: their project, a study on how carbon is stored in salt marshes, had been approved for funding by the Department of Energy. On Thursday, a day after the grant was publicly announced, the lead scientist said she received a letter asking her to remove climate-related language from a description of the work to toe the line of the Trump administration.

The researcher, Jennifer Bowen of Northeastern University, shared a screenshot of the email in a Facebook post that sparked outrage among scientists online. In the email, someone whose name is not shown asks for the alterations.

"I have been asked to contact you to update the wording in your proposal abstract to remove words such as 'global warming' or 'climate change,'" the email says. "This is being asked as we have to meet the President's budget language restrictions."

Along with the screenshot, Bowen, who studies how human activities alter microbial communities, wrote: "This just happened. I'm just going to leave that here for people to ponder."

The Department of Energy did not reply to a request for comment from InsideClimate News, but a spokeswoman told Nature that there was no departmentwide policy banning the term "climate change" in Department of Energy materials.

President Donald Trump has made his priorities clear when it comes to climate change. In addition to pulling out of the international Paris climate agreement, his budget proposal released in May recommended deep cuts to programs dealing with climate change and clean energy across the administration, and his budget proposal for the Department of Energy specifically referred to "elimination of climate change initiatives."

"My take on this is that someone within the labs is proactively going through new awards and trying to make sure they don't get into any trouble," said Bowen's colleague in the study, Jonathan Sanderman of Woods Hole Research Center. "Since the funding for this project and other products is tied up in the current appropriate funding, I think they're worried they might get zeroed out."

Bowen's original abstract included language about how the degradation of salt marshes releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. She wrote on Facebook that she reponded by providing a new version as requested and writing: "I understand you are just doing your job, so I will refrain from comment. I redacted the offensive clause." As of Friday afternoon, the abstract linked to from a Department of Energy website still had the original version, with the phrase "climate change."

Nature reported that the email came from a project coordinator at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and that a second scientist who received a grant at the same time had also been asked on Thursday to remove references to climate change from his project's description. That scientist, ecologist Scott Saleska of the University of Arizona, is researching the effects of decomposing plant material on permafrost.

'It's Not Going to Change the Research'

Sanderman said he and Bowen had received no indication that their final report should avoid use of language related to climate change. The request appeared to apply only to the abstract of the proposal.

"We're going to do the exact same work—literally, it's two words in the abstract that we're going to remove," he said. "It's not going to change the research, which is all about how salt marshes are being impacted by all these anthropogenic stressors, climate change included."

Northeastern issued a statement that the university is committed to scientific independence: "A long-standing pillar of the U.S. research model is the belief that science should not be constrained or influenced by partisan politics. As a university, we will continue our steadfast commitment to intellectual inquiry and will follow the facts, wherever they may lead."

Other Attempts to Erase Words 'Climate Change'

Under the Trump administration, the government has made moves to avoid climate change-related terms before.

In March, Politico reported that staff at the Department of Energy's Office of International Climate and Technology were told not to use the terms "climate change," "emissions reduction" or "Paris Agreement." The office, which worked with other countries to develop clean energy technology, was shut down in June. In April, the Department of Energy replaced the "Clean Energy Investment Center" with the "Energy Investor Center."

In the department's long-delayed power grid study, released this week, the only mention of climate change in the administration-approved version of the report is in the added political recommendations, which say to follow Trump's executive order on energy that includes "rescinding energy and climate-related policies."

The Energy Department is also not alone in these requests.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced in April it was reviewingand rewriting its websites, particularly those involving climate change, to reflect the Trump administration's perspective. It cited Trump's March 28 executive order on energy as its guide. After removing its climate change page, and receiving a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Act about it, the EPA published an archived version but didn't make it easy to find. The Department of Interior also removed extensive discussions of the effects of global warming from several pages.

At the Department of Agriculture, emails show how staff in the Natural Resources Conservation Service were coached by managers to avoid the term "climate change" and instead use "weather extremes." The first email hinting at that change in language arrived four days after Trump took the oath of office.

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

If you follow me on Twitter, this might seem a little familiar, but a slightly longer and more meandering version.

I’ve mentioned it a few times now, but I think the best thing I ever did for myself as a developer was create and standardize a set of tools for myself.

I had to do it in kind of a back door way. The place I was working at the time had an intellectual property clause in the contract. Basically, the owner wanted everything I developed while working there, whether it was at home or at work. He worked hard to muddy the waters by having us work on things at home, which meant he could argue things I worked on at home I was being paid for so obviously belonged to him. You know, pretty standard capitalist bullshit.

The way I fought against this, is first I developed my tools completely at home, and separate from any work projects. In fact, they were originally developed to facilitate a project where I could communicate with Old School Runescape trading APIs, so basically the furthest you can get from work. Then I uploaded the resulting framework to GitHub with an open source license, and only after it had been up for a few weeks did I take it to work. The crux to this plan was, you can’t close open source code once it’s open. Any changes or modifications I made to it at work were his, but the core of it, everything I’d already cemented was mine and I would be free to use it forever.

You’re probably noticing two things right now. Why did I have such an adversarial relationship with my boss? Why was I so adamant on keeping the rights to myself?

The second question is easier to answer, so I’ll do that first. I had worked with him for three years, and I had already decided to leave. I wanted something that was mine, something I could put into a portfolio, and more importantly build into portfolio projects. He owned all the code I wrote there, and I wasn’t allowed to share it with anyone. I could tell people I worked on things, but saying I worked on code and being able to show it to people are very different things.

The first is actually pretty closely linked to what drove me to structure my tools the way I did in the first place, so I’m going to describe the tools first.

I call them Vogon after the race from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. The idea was that the framework itself was supposed to be as small as possible, but extract the absolute most use from that small amount of code. Not unlike poetry, but much like the Vogons that Douglas Addams describes, I was pretty sure it was going to be bad poetry.

I think I accomplished my goal. Vogon Core, loaded with the settings extension (which makes routing much easier), is 66.5kb, and that’s a little more bloated than the core really needs to be. I should honestly move a number of models and views into extension folders so they can be more easily moved in and out of projects. But what’s most important is what I’m doing in that less than 1/10th of a MB.

Vogon Core includes a Database object called “Thumb” that manages creating the database connections and doing the queries in a way that can be rolled back appropriately (I’m pretty sure, though I haven’t had reason to test this extensively). It also includes a database abstraction object called “Clerk” that handles a lot of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on the main Data and Data_Meta database tables, so I don’t have to handle most database queries directly, but have the flexibility to do so if I’m doing something more complex. The last included object is a wrapper for cURL (Client For URLS, a terminal level application for fetching resources at urls) called “Fish”, after the universal translators. Between those three objects, I can retrieve, parse, store, and update data remotely or in a database, which is 90% of the functionality every project needs.

Next, I created a bootstrap file that is always loaded. This includes the above classes, loads the config file (and tells the database to connect if it’s in use). This then invokes the router which takes care of another 5% of the functionality all projects require, the ability to navigate between application end-points. The router is entirely dynamic. The framework uses an HTACCESS file to route all calls to the server through a single file than then loads resources based on the address, this means you’re never accessing a file directly unless it is from an exception folder like Upload or resource folders like JS and CSS. This means you can have really clean URLs, and if a client does something dumb like hate the default location for their administration URL, it can easily be changed with minimal fuss. The final core document is a collection of functions to facilitate everything. Four functions load various documents and establish the folder structure, the generic loader function, and more specific envokations of the generic loader pointed at the Controller, Model, and View folder structures both in the main folder and the extension folders. The rest of the functions just make a few recurring tasks like parsing URLs, or making strings URL safe (not URI safe, as that’s a little different), a little easier to manage.

This means for every project I start. I have an established, clear, and expandable folder structure, a database connection, a way to access remote resources, and a resilient and relatively battle hardened router, so I am usually off and writing new functional code in two to three minutes. Just long enough to drop the folder structure, create the database, and throw the user and password into the configuration file.

Why is this so important to me, why do I rave about it so much? Because it’s so damned easy, and I never had that at work.

I worked at a small Internet Marketing shop with something like 250 websites. A few clients had more than one website, but for the most part every website was a different client. About a third of those were running on established open source PHP frameworks (OpenCart {which is trash, don’t use it}, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla). I almost never had to worry about these outside of regular minimal maintenance tasks like content updates, plugin updates, ect. Of the other 160ish, about 10 where static websites, and the last 150 were on a proprietary PHP framework called Arrow (at least in later stages).

Arrow was… a geological expedition of code. The company had gone through so many developer changeovers that the core of the framework was pretty clearly divided into strata of different development goals and mindsets. One development team used a lot of open source projects with minimal changes, another really liked their OOP (object oriented programming), and another insisted on re-inventing the wheel. Add to this that Arrow was never truly version controlled (I asked about git and was told it wasn’t worth the trouble), and you had a whole mess. I burned at least 10 hours a week solving the same problems over and over again, and I could almost never copy and paste directly because each site was just different enough that rampant copy pasting could break everything. This meant there were a lot of custom written solutions that could never be tested thoroughly. Which meant a lot of clients found edge cases I couldn’t see when I was implementing whatever fix, and they were understandably upset that things I said was fixed were obviously not so.

And I say me, because it was basically just me. When I was hired, I was the only developer. Everyone else had just been fired. A few months later I had a single co-worker, but the division of labor ended up heavily in favor of me doing server administration, website maintenance, and framework development, while he focusing on the new work and one-off development. There was crossover, but not as much as we wanted or needed. Which really sucked when it came time to take time off because there were a lot of questions that only I could answer. Being an invaluable employee is great, until you’re the roadblock in a project.

Because I was working on the framework itself, I was able to bring some uniformity to it. We were a lot better near the end of my employment than we ever were in the beginning, and I hear they’ve now moved primarily to WordPress (which is honestly amazing as it basically removes the need for my old position). But, the biggest issue is the amount of pushback I got from my boss about my solutions to all of the time I was regularly burning on things being solved over and over again. Again, I was told Git wasn’t worthwhile. I got into the prototyping stage of a new more flexible version of the framework and was told to throw everything away and that we were going to just continue to hotfix and patch what we had until it was in better shape.

As an aside, I really hated throwing that work away. A big part of the prototype that I was working on had automated a lot of development tasks. It could build new database tables for you, it was auto sanitizing inputs, and built CRUD abstraction objects for all the tables in the database. You could tell it to make an extension folder, and it would create one complete with UI that you just had to modify to suit your needs, letting you focus just on working on new code.

I have a lot of theories as to why we had these fights. My ego makes me want to say that a big problem is that the owner thought of himself as a developer, and a bit of a genius. So when we were putting code in front of him that he didn’t understand, it made him angry because if it wasn’t how he would do it, it couldn’t possibly be a good way to do it. I also suspect that after I left, he did his best to go through all the code I wrote and throw out everything he didn’t like, breaking the framework, and that’s what finally pushed them to WordPress as their primary framework. But probably the biggest contribution was that he almost never worked on the development, so he couldn’t see the problems that I did. He didn’t like that I would spend time solving problems other than the ones clients were complaining about at the moment, that I was trying to speed up development time and lower maintenance time. That I was self-lead and did not look up to him.

So when I decided I was leaving. I took a lot of the lessons that I had learned the hard way, took as many of the problems that were work stressers as I could solve with code, and I solved them.

And I can’t begin to tell you how nice it is to get an idea and to be able to work on it in minutes. To know that if I really like part of a project I’m working on, I can easily just drop it into an old project. To have a workflow that is the same from project to project.

In the tech world, there’s an obsession with always knowing the newest and the “best” tools. There’s the memes about needing 10 years of experience with two year old technologies. But in my day to day development, the things I use the most are the Linux Terminal, Apache, MySQL, SCP/SFTP, jQuery/JavaScript, PHP. There’s not a single piece of tech in that stack that’s less than decades old, and there are very few problems I can’t solve with it. They are relevant, they are maintained, and they will continue to be relevant.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if its the best way to solve a problem, what matters is how fast you solved it, and if the solution is stable and reliable. Especially if there is a client waiting for you work. They care that it works, that they got it quickly, and that it continues to work.

I’m not saying don’t try to keep up with new technology, but have a set of standard tools you know very well. That way you can fall back on them when speed is of the essence, or when stability is a priority.