I looked into the lemmy src, and what is supposed to be a CRUD API has several layers of abstraction. Same at work, where we have hexagonally structured apps where following any sort of logic is literally impossible. What are your thoughts?

    •  jadero   ( @jadero@lemmy.ca ) 
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      51 year ago

      Not dumb, untrained or not yet sufficiently skilled in this particular area. While you bear some responsibility for getting up to speed, I would argue that it is still their issue if they are not providing the necessary resources. With something like lemmy, you are probably on your own for finding and making use of those resources. But I would be surprised to learn that those resources don’t exist. I haven’t looked, but there must be some kind of documentation written by someone and a community of like-minded people. Maybe even some tutorials.

      That said, some people will always struggle with certain kinds of abstraction or multiple layers of abstraction. For myself, one thing that I find helpful is to view each layer as an API that I’m targeting or a library that I’m using. In those cases, you never really worry about how things get done in the background.

      Do you really have any idea how the keywords that solicit user input work? Not likely. Even if you do, you still completely ignore the fact that you know it while writing a line of code that solicits user input. That is a layer of abstraction that you use regularly without even thinking about it. A good architecture allows the same kind of reasoning about your code.

      •  Cinnamon   ( @CinnamonTheCat@beehaw.org ) OP
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        1 year ago

        Isn’t that just saying that I just am not good at my job? I mean, shouldn’t I be able to just grasp it by just looking at it?

        Like I want to contribute to it, but it feels so overwhelming and hard to find anything I need.

        •  jadero   ( @jadero@lemmy.ca ) 
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          51 year ago

          Absolutely not! I’m not sure anything in any field is so trivially simple that it can be grasped just by looking at it. Getting even minimally competent in anything requires both study and practice.

          The good news is that study and practice are skills worth acquiring, because they are useful in any endeavour.

          The great news is that study and practice are what’s needed for mastery, too, so once you start your journey, you can can continue as far as you want.