Grant Bennett

Ex-Finance Professional turned Software Developer. Lover of PHP/SQL. Laravel & Vue fan. Likes writing tests 🤷🏻‍♂️. Also 📸 🎮

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

I just can’t escape the urge 😂 #PPL #PilotTraining

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@holman Annoys me no end that @1Password won’t let you set this as default behaviour

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@1Password almost 40% price increase is a bit of a piss-take isn’t it?

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@zabius @MichaelAsiedu_ Have a Guinness for me <3

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@zabius @MichaelAsiedu_ I’m wondering the same. I must be boring compared to these people claiming they can’t live without it as it does so much. Only thing I’ve thought of so far is daily scanning my email for purchase receipts and adding it to some sort of log so I can track any small purchases I make

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@PayPal seriously, why do I have to keep entering a 2FA code when using the app? New app on a new phone? Sure. New login online? Sure.

Every. Damn. Time. I. Open. The. App? Do one.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@Fastmail do you do Black Friday? I’m guessing not but don’t want to sign up later and miss it 😁

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@zabius Three G’s no more :sadge

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

First time I’ve been made redundant 😔

I work(ed) for ebuyer - the UK’s largest independent tech retailer who today has gone into administration.

We had a great tech team who worked tirelessly to not only keep things running but actively tried hard to migrate away from the

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[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@McAteerAndy7 Thanks Andy. You look to be smashing it, chuffed for ya 🫡

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

I was working hard to a promotion, finding myself on the jobless developer pile wasn’t on my bingo card.

Nothing is forever. Sad times.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

won’t get to work with these people again.

Looking at https://t.co/Lni0BgtTYf it looks like Frasers Group has intentions to rescue the brand, and no doubt the stock, but a lot of good people were let go today.

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[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@Proton_Pass Amazing. Just in time! I’ve been looking to replace the awful mess @Authy has become.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@ccmiller2018 Think we’re going to see a load more of these types of things. Maybe report it to their host/domain reg.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@ccmiller2018 I’ll certainly be watching!

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@ccmiller2018 Yea i thought so with the request for bad examples 🥸 but I think showing great examples with how to recognise the patterns in use and why they are good for this/that would also be great content - and arguably easier to get examples as there are some fabulous OS frameworks/etc.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@ccmiller2018 I think a great youtube idea would be to dissect quality codebases and explain the design patterns, why they work in that situation and maybe other ways a similar effect could be achieved.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@ccmiller2018 Ooh, I’ve got hundreds of examples but unfortunately none I can publicise 🤓

The worst function I ever saw was something like functionName($var, 0, 1, true, false, false) - the 0/1 also being used as a boolean 🤮 can’t remember what it did, some display output I think.

[Grant Bennett @grantbennett]

@ashleyhindle @LaravelLiveUK Sadpanda. Have a great few days!