MS still has a shitton of legacy code in their repos.

"AI" doesn't explain Windows 8, Windows ME, Windows CE, Windows Vista, the Office Ribbon, or Microsoft Bob.

Without even a pretense of human users. Got it.

Social media is now complete, time to move on.

WordPress isn't just "kinda a mess", it is a 20 year old master class in poor application design and writing terrible PHP.

It is only a matter of time before their "AI" forgets to enable all the security plugins make WP sites seem secure for more than 45 minutes.

It won't be blank.

better aligns with Windows 11 design principles

See? It's going to have ads.

No game released after 2000 comes close. The actual answer certainly came out before 1990, such as:

• Pong
• Snake
• Pac-Man
• Donkey Kong
• Might & Magic
• Ultima
• Rogue
• Zork

Has the package manager it deserves. It is a reflection of the language's community.

NPM is:

• One part "package" "manager" (for very loose definitions of both)
• One part language shims
• One part code snippet landfill

More JS package managers won't fix anything. All the problems stem from what the JS community considers to be a package, and that in JS world DRY actually means desiccated.

No other language's community would sincerely entertain the notion of an is-even package.

Social media platforms have zero user-facing incentive to limit any kind of content.

Content => engagement => ad views => revenue.

They only limit content when it might affect ad buys.

Only the users care about the user experience.

The only reason I run Kubuntu is because Mint dropped their KDE flavor after Mint 18.

Something is deeply wrong within Mint if the entire team lacks the skill set to support KDE. If KDE isn't major now, it will become so as Gnome continues to be contrarian about how everything in Wayland should work.

The user is never the product. The user's data/activity is the product.

Dairy farmers sell milk, not cows.

1. Looking for websites to accomplish rudimentary tasks that should be done locally. If you're a software engineer, you should be able to whip up a script for yourself... ImageMagick, Inkscape, pdftoppm, and other similar things exist.

2. Rightfully not trusting the websites, but using them anyway.

3. Throwing more "AI" at the wall for a quick solution, and hoping its furry (beyond fuzzy) logic vomits as intended.

I'm sure there are more fails. I would use any of these scenarios as an interview sieve to eliminate candidates whose first instinct is to find a website or an app that can do it for them.

That Java and Javascript are not the same language.

Maybe they start small by not being deliberately contrary to what everyone else around Wayland wants to do.

The recent changes to Wayland's protocol handling and governance rules were largely because of Gnome.

This is a fight between a turd and a slightly polished turd.

They both need to be flushed.

I've started telling somewhat computer-inclined people not to pick a distro, but to pick a package manager first. Much less daunting.

Everyone with less than 10 years of (web) development experience seems convinced that every shitty little PWA with no real ideas or features, that gets 100 views a month, needs every single bit of enterprise-level infrastructure.

It's a weird adaptation of Prosperity Gospel to software. "We're all just temporarily embarrassed startups."

Meanwhile, these developers are severely lacking in fundamental skills and sense of perspective. They live in bubbles of the tech they use. Except, most self-styled "full stack developers" (which, if they don't name a language, invariably means Javascript... ugh) still manages to know one exactly thing about PHP (it sucks) or Python (it's slooooooow), without having any actual exposure to either.

This situation is not sustainable. Eventually the industry will realize these "developers" aren't employable. They themselves will never realize that their portfolios full of "finished" "apps" benefit no one.

Do the so-called development bootcamps literally, actually serve Kool-Aid to their marks?