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Je viens de croiser pour la première fois la propriété windom.customElements (from). Elle fait partie de l'ensemble des technologies qui composent ce que l'on appelle les Web Components.

Je connais depuis longtemps les Web Components, mais je n'ai jamais essayé de mettre en œuvre cette technologie. Je me suis contenté de lire et d'écouter des retours d'expérience et de suivre l'évolution des spécifications.

#JaiDécouvert que je peux facilement créer des Web Components en Svelte : https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/custom-elements.

Custom elements can be a useful way to package components for consumption in a non-Svelte app, as they will work with vanilla HTML and JavaScript as well as most frameworks.

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#JaiDécouvert le site Custom Elements Everywhere (https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/). Je lis que les Web Components sont maintenant parfaitement supportés par les frameworks majeurs : ReactJS, VueJS, Angular, Svelte, Solid… Ce qui est une très bonne nouvelle 🙂.
Je vais essayer de garder cette information à l'esprit, les Web Components me seront sans doute utile à l'avenir.

Avec Svelte, j'apprécie une sorte de "retour aux sources", c'est-à-dire, vers un web un peu plus "vannila", celui que j'ai connu au début des années 2000.
Je pense que Web Components vont encore renforcer cette sensation, comme par exemple le fait que si j'utilise la fonctionnalité développeur "inspection" du navigateur sur un Web Component, je vais voir, par exemple, la balise <button>....</button> du Web Component et non sa "soupe" HTML, comme c'est le cas avec un composant ReactJS ou Svelte (je sais qu'il existe des extensions navigateur pour éviter cela).

#JaimeraisUnJour prendre le temps d'étudier les performances des Web Components versus les composants de ReactJS, Svelte et Solid.

#JaiLu le thread du Subreddit ReactJS : Is it worth learning Web Components?. Voici quelques extraits :

Not worth it to be quite honest. I expect to get some hate for this.

I worked on a design system for three years that was written in Stencil (web component framework) that was used by multiple teams all using React, Angular, Vue. I regret everything, it should have all been react but the dumb decision to allow different teams to use different frameworks in order to do "micro frontend architecture" was the reason web components were picked shortly before I joined and took the lead.

Web components are also impossible to version and whichever one loads first is going to be the one that is globally used. This means production breaking changes without teams even knowing their breaking changes were going to fuck over another team.

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Un peu plus loin du même auteur :

No, I view “micro frontend architecture” as a total disaster and it usually is implemented badly. When each application is a different framework too it’s quite honestly so difficult as to not even be worth entertaining.

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Web components can be a great way to add functionality to legacy web apps. I don't know if I'd set out to use them in any other scenario though. I suppose you could, but I don't know many people writing vanilla HTML/JS apps these days.

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J'ai effectué une recherche GitHub sur le topic "web-components" et j'ai trouvé des choses intéressantes :

• wired-elements - j'adore ! ( Voir note la 2024-12-11_1708)
• Open UI (https://open-ui.org) - cela semble être intéressant
• https://github.com/github/github-elements
• https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element
• https://atomicojs.dev

Dans le thread Reddit GNOME "Is there any chance gnome supports window tiling ?", je suis tombé à nouveau sur cet excellent article : "Rethinking Window Management - Space and Meaning".

Ensuite #JaiDécouvert l'extension Tiling Shell. J'ai décidé de tester cette extension.

J'ai l'impression que cette extension a modifié / supprimé mes raccourcis clavier de déplacement de fenêtre. Cela m'embête un peu si je décide de désactiver cette extension 🤔.

J'ai configuré les raccourcis clavier comme ceci :

Je ne comprends pas, les raccourcis Super + ➡️ et Super + ⬅️ ne semblent pas fonctionner.

À la lecture du README de l'extension, je constate qu'elle propose beaucoup de petites astuces. Je vais essayer de les apprendre au fur et à mesure.

Alexandre m'a partagé le Subreddit : MiniPCs.

#JaiLu le Thread Reddit : What dns do you use on your home router?.

J'y ai découvert Quad9.

Je cherche un équivalent de Listr2 en Golang, mais pour le moment je n'ai rien trouvé 😟.

Je viens de poster ce message sur le Subreddit Golang : I'm looking for an equivalent of listr2: beautiful CLI interfaces via easy and logical to implement task lists that feel lively and interactive

Subject: I'm looking for an equivalent of listr2: beautiful CLI interfaces via easy and logical to implement task lists that feel lively and interactive

Hi,

Do you know a Golang equivalent of the Javascript listr2 library?

My goal is to create a cli tool with the same rendering as demonstrated in the screencast on https://listr2.kilic.dev

Listr2:

Create beautiful CLI interfaces via easy and logical-to-implement task lists that feel alive and interactive.

Best regards,
Stéphane

En lisant le thread Reddit "Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients" #JaiDécouvert Psono.

Open Source Self Hosted Password Manager for Companies

Secure self-hosted solution for businesses

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#JeMeDemande s'il existe une communauté identique à social.coop, mais 100% francophone 🤔.

J'ai posté le message suivant :

Connaissez-vous une instance Mastodon gérée par des membres francophones ou des personnes localisées en France, dont le financement et la gouvernance s'inspirent de celle de "social.coop" ? Autrement dit, une instance financée par ses utilisateurs, avec un financement transparent via Open Collective et des décisions prises collectivement sur Loomio.

Traduction :

Do you know a Mastodon instance managed by French members whose financing and governance are inspired by that of “social.coop”? In other words, an instance funded by its users, with transparent financing via Open Collective and decisions taken collectively on Loomio.

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• Le Subreddit Fediverse : https://old.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1fxottc/do_you_know_a_mastodon_instance_managed_by_french/
• Message adressé à Nathan Schneider, un administrateur de social.coop : https://mamot.fr/@stephane_klein/113262176462779173
• Message adressé au compte administrateur de l'instance Piaille : https://mamot.fr/@stephane_klein/113262221066589302

Dans ce thread Reddit, #JaiDécouvert :

• Quickwit

Cloud-native search engine for observability.. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.

• openITCOCKPIT :

openITCOCKPIT is an Open Source system monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines like Nagios, Naemon and Prometheus.

• OpenObserve :

🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch / Splunk / Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).

#JaiLu l'article Ode aux perdants de Ploum qui commente l'article fedi is for losers ( wingolog) qui traite de Fediverse.

La question est provocante et intelligente : le Fediverse semble être un repère d’écologistes, libristes, défenseurs des droits sociaux, féministes et cyclistes. Bref la liste de tous ceux qui ne sont pas mis en avant, qui semblent « perdre ».

Je n’avais jamais vu les choses sous cet angle.

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Personnellement, je ne suis pas surpris, j'ai souvent reçu cette remarque de la part de profils non hackers, comme des CEO, des responsables marketing, ou des personnes issues de la culture startup.

J'utilise Fediverse, Reddit, Hacker News, Lobster, les forums… parce que j'y trouve des signaux faibles, des Maven, des hackers.

Je suis conscient que le Fediverse représente une barrière à l'entrée, mais je considère cela comme une qualité. Cela contribue à éviter, dans une certaine mesure, le phénomène du septembre éternel.

Personnellement, je trouve peu d'information sur Twitter et encore moins sur LinkedIn.
Je trouve que ces plateformes sont majoritairement saturées de bruit, de contenu promotionnel déguisé et de messages de signalement de statut social.

Pour être totalement transparent, jusqu'à présent, je trouve que mon feed Mastodon est de mauvaise qualité, j'y trouve peu d'Information. Je préfère nettement le contenu de mon flux RSS, qui agrège des sources provenant de Hacker News, Reddit et de divers blogs.

J'aimerais voir sur Fediverse plus de chercheurs, plus d'informations qui proviennent de revues à comités de lectures.

#OnMaPartagé la vidéo YouTube nommée Pourquoi les projets informatiques vont dans le mur ?.

Je ne connaissais pas la dérive de ce projet de migration de SAP vers ERP Oracle Fusion de la mairie de Birmingham : La 2e ville du Royaume-Uni s'est déclarée en faillite, plombée entre autres par les dérives d'un projet de migration vers l'ERP Oracle Fusion. Après des années de retards, de problèmes de contrôle, de gestion hasardeuse, la facture du projet a quintuplé pour atteindre 115 M€.

J'ai fait quelques recherches dans les commentaires Hacker News et j'ai trouvé ceci :

• Birmingham council's "equal pay" bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster

My state of Oregon paid Oracle something like $250M for a healthcare system that never materialized. The lawsuit that followed was settled for $100M, but most of that was “free” Oracle licenses and no less than $60M of customer support.

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Actually it's the opposite. I worked for an NGO half a decade ago, and they wanted to add 2FA authentication to their login system used by ~400 staff. I created a quick demo using Google Authenticator in less than a week.

However the director of IT didn't like this solution. He insisted we use RSA keys and hire IBM to build a solution using that - I think the original estimate was a few million $ and it would take six months or so for their team (of basically new graduates) to build.

I asked my boss why the director was pushing so much for IBM to build it:

He told me that if we build it, and it doesn't work, then the director has to take the blame. If IBM build it, and it doesn't work, then IBM take the blame.

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Yes. There’s also the revolving door problem. The bureaucrat making the decision is often angling for a cushy role at the contractor. And the contractor is making the offer under the table to get the gig. From the decision makers perspective, it doesn’t matter if the project succeeds, they’ll be long gone. I’ve seen this with my own eyes.

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How do they stay in business?

Oracle's main line of competency is not providing good software services. They are in fact, specialists of acquiring government contracts.

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Has anyone ever heard of an Oracle project that has ever ended well?

After 25 years in IT consulting all over the US in different businesses, Oracle is never NOT a 4 letter world, where projects involving them always over-promise, under-deliver, and project costs end up some 3-10x any initial projection. Particularly any ERP, CRM, now EMR in hospitals as well since acquiring Cerner. Anyone that does use them only do as a necessary evil of some dubious or shady circumstances, otherwise Oracle is a term almost universally reviled and hated amongst end users and organization leadership alike.

• How poor IT project management failed Birmingham Oracle implementation

An insider at Birmingham City Council who has been closely involved in the project told Computer Weekly it went live “despite all the warnings telling them it wouldn’t work”.

Discussing how the Oracle system failure impacted the council’s ability to manage its finances, the insider said: “We were withholding thousands of supplier payments because we couldn’t make any payments. We didn’t have any direct debits for cash collection. We had no cash collection, no bank reconciliation. When you do a project of this size, you must have your financial reporting and you must have a bank reconciliation system that tells you where the money is, what’s being spent and what’s being paid.”

Since going live, the Oracle system effectively scrambled financial data, which meant the council had no clear picture of its overall finances.

The insider said that by January 2023, Birmingham City Council could not produce an accurate account of its spending and budget for the next financial year: “There’s no way that we could do our year-end accounts because the system didn’t work.”

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The June 2023 Birmingham City Council report to cabinet stated that due to issues with the council’s bank reconciliation system (BRS), a significant number of transactions had to be manually allocated to accounts rather than automatically via the Oracle system. However, Computer Weekly has seen an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation presentation given in 2019, which shows that the council was made aware of these issues at that time, three years before the go-live date.

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The lack of a functioning BRS has directly contributed to the council’s current financial crisis. In BCC’s April 2024 audit report, councillor Grindrod said: “We couldn’t accurately collect council tax or business rates.”

As of April 2024, it is believed the manual intervention needed for the bank reconciliation process is costing the council £250,000 per month.

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• City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Peoplesoft/Oracle ERP has had over 30 year of experience selling to local governments globally.

When dealing with procurement in countries that aren't the US, riles and regulations are much more difficult and unintuitive, and also provide marginal RoI.

This is why companies like Workday and Salesforce don't care to compete with Oracle or SAPs in these kinds of contracts - they don't have the right relationships with channel partners and systems integrators needed.

When a city council places a tender for an ERP system, they won't be doing the work in-house due to regulatory and budget allocation reasons. Instead they'll farm out the work to local contractors, MSPs, and Systems Integrators instead.

PLG driven companies like Workday and Salesforce dislike working with SIs and MSPs as much because channel partners don't care about upselling features in the products they bought - they wanna keep the customer satiated instead.

Also, the dollars spent getting the contract might not have a significant RoI when factoring the contract size itself.

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J'ai trouvé ceci sur Reddit :

• Why is ERP software still so terrible? And so expensive?

I work as an implementation consultant for finance software, albeit a much smaller scale one than SAP/Oracle, but I’ve been in this line of work for several years. This kind of thing is fairly common, and I think a several year long project that Lidl undertook to do the same thing went the same way, which is money down the toilet.

All of the cost is in the services. The clients are billed at an hourly or daily rate for meetings, project management, issue resolution, emails etc. The problem with huge projects like these is that institutions like councils have their own very specific processes and are unwilling to change, because more often than not the employees are set in their ways and don’t want to learn anything, but also changing one or two things could have a huge effect on other things. In finance systems there are often several integrations, both incoming and outgoing, and the client will need a tailored solution to migrate everything. It would be easy if the client accepted that some things would have to change, but SAP and Oracle are very very customisable, and depending on the company doing the implementation everything will get customised to where there are all these new moving parts, new problems, and new things to learn. People also change their minds about what they want all the time, especially if the project wasn’t scoped or managed correctly.

In short, the software may be established, but the way it is implemented never is. Templates exist, but every business is different, and the public sector is particularly messy to deal with (underpaid and undertrained staff, tend to be a bit less motivated than private sector IME).

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I tried several different SaaS solutions, mostly aimed at breweries. It was infuriating watching these things fit 98% of the requirement, but the missing 2% rendered the whole system inoperable. But the choice is just take it for £50/user/month or leave it.

I tried some open source options which were better, but were still far too rigid to a point where we'd be shaping our whole operations around the way our ERP wants us to do things, and getting to that point would take a lot of development.

In the end, it was legitimately easier to do it ourselves. And by that I mean me, a distiller, to develop a system from scratch. We now have a fully integrated ERP system that works around our processes, but was built using good practices so that things are very versatile and don't inherently depend on working a certain way. Some of these systems had moronic limitations that wouldn't even allow for an output to be used as an input into another process. Apparently everything has to be made in one process! Can you imagine how many use cases that single, completely unnecessary, restriction... restricts?

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