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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.

I miss him, bros.

One of the ones he bought is sold on Apple’s website, so I don’t think so.

The virtual desktops functionality is miles above any other DE, specifically. The settings are really simple, and the options in the right click context menus are really well featured.

The fact that the website hasn’t been updated since 2020 and still has an open CVE shines the light on Flatpak’s attention to security.

Regarding point 3, if that’s true, then why are all of the most-dowloaded packages on Flathub mislabelled as ‘sandboxed’ when they have full write access to a user’s home directory? That isn’t a sandbox.

Flatpak currently has a 7.2 vulnerability that has gone unaddressed since 2017. The maximum vulnerability rating is a 9, so this is quite major.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=16613&product_id=&version_id=&page=1&hasexp=0&opdos=0&opec=0&opov=0&opcsrf=0&opgpriv=0&opsqli=0&opxss=0&opdirt=0&opmemc=0&ophttprs=0&opbyp=0&opfileinc=0&opginf=0&cvssscoremin=3&cvssscoremax=0&year=0&month=0&cweid=0&order=1&trc=9&sha=14fe55bfe41eaaaaca8e742bde18bc6938f88a3e

I really hope this isn’t just another Budgie DE which uses core GNOME tech. Reassuring to see the new Rust code.

Absolutely Fedora. I found NixOS to be over-engineered.

Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.

I don’t like using X, but Wayland isn’t ready for power users yet. I don’t think people generally would notice the difference.

I used it for a year a year or so ago and changed for some reason. Recently did a fresh install and I am seriously unable to think why I left it.

It’s insanely fast, performant, resource-friendly and much more community driven than other distros with the void-packages repository on GitHub. Oh, and it doesn’t have systemd so my install boots in 3 seconds flat, compared to the 22 seconds for Fedora 38.

Enlightenment has a fantastic feature set and some very interesting ways of using a Linux desktop.

But…the themes are just so 2005. It’s hard to look past that, or at least make it a little bit 2015 at the least.

Fedora 30 - 36 were phenomenal releases and I mostly used them, recommended them elsewhere.

I had to start using the Spins because the default GNOME desktop is just becoming unusable. Stripping functionality to make it prettier, not fixing longstanding issues.

Then Fedora had that kerfuffle with the licensing issues with codecs, and I couldn’t play a certain type of HEVC video that the vast majority of my video library is encoded in.

Then, more recently, I had issues with Python in their repos. That was the last straw. I’ll definitely check it out again in a few years to see if they’ve fixed a lot of these problems, but I wouldn’t recommend the distro in its current state.

I’d recommend that you stop using Flatpak immediately, it’s a horrific security nightmare.

https://flatkill.org

For a beginner, maybe not. But I’d probably suggest it over something like Arch just because of the excellent installer, amazing community and healthy ecosystem of packages.

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.