Pragmatism in today's world
I have a new project where we will be integrating with a third party API that is currently being written. Due to Conway's Law, we are being sent new versions of the OpenAPI spec as a set of JSON files via email. I quite like seeing the HTML rendering of an OpenAPI spec when reading it and understanding it, so I knocked up a simple shell script that takes an OpenAPI spec file and outputs… continue reading.
Recently I discovered that this code passed our PHPStan level 10 checks: use http\Exception\InvalidArgumentException; // … throw new InvalidArgumentException; I was surprised as http\Exception\InvalidArgumentException is not a class in our system. While cooling, I discovered that there's an http PHP extension and it appears that PHPStan has a stub for this which means that it accepts it as existing even if it doesn't. What we think happened is that I wrote throw new InvalidArgumentException; and… continue reading.
Today has been a struggle entirely due to my own internal negative thoughts and feelings about impacting events that are outside my control. Navigating this to come out stronger rather than letting it consume my self-belief and confidence isn’t easy, especially at the time. I’m not worse at my job and my abilities haven’t diminished, but sometimes it’s hard to remember this. I need to give myself space to remember who I am and internalise… continue reading.
I don't often post personal things here, however last weekend my dad died peacefully in his sleep and it feels important to acknowledge this. I have no words.
