It’s vanity to think we’re encountering some yet unknown human experience here.
It’s new to us individually, but the historical record is littered with exactly your account of “what’s happening.” Administrative state wraps itself around the rubes brainstems to moderate agency.
Obviously it’s fine when it comes to real harm to others. The problem is when a successful person believes that success for them is guaranteed. As much of mainstream America, it’s ridiculous billionaire class has come to believe.
We’ve given them a monopoly on capital, fools. Capital = options. We have none. We’re stupid and must simply enter into debt agreements to exist as a member of an elitists flock.
Or at least that’s the sound forms they might have used when the church owned everything.
Just because the central authority doesn’t “legally” own things doesn’t mean we haven’t ended up right back in the same spot of being controlled by a spiteful hierarchy of self-aggrandizing but otherwise normal men. Less literally violent spot, of course, but still destructive of innate biological rhythms.
People used to go about their day building shit. Now they need to coddle grandpas agreements. Pretty ironic for a country with a founding principle of “fuck gramps and his bullshit agreements.”
Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, the dead should not rule the living. But here we are being guilted into servicing their debts, their opinion on hierarchy, their old demands for wars over what really could have been mental illness back in the day. Somehow if it’s on paper it’s a force of reality, like gravity itself!
That’s interesting, because every office I’ve been in is like this while working only with and building proprietary software
Tool flame wars, constant bike shedding, “that’s too abstract” premature optimization wars (apparently a list comprehension is too abstract for some eng, if-else all the way down!). Every Medium post by a tech somebody becomes a religious soapbox.
I quit it all but kept my job. People complain I skip meetings and take Friday mostly off.
But my stories are done by Weds, so really I take Thur off and just do work log updates Fri to make it look like I was still working.
And the reason they’re done by Weds is cause I do the programming and skip everything else.
Job life feels like being in high school anymore. It’s about social appeasement, debating well trodden concepts at length, and exploring little new ground.
Import toolkits and go home. Like most creative endeavors, writing code to express my own mind is fun. Writing code to satisfy the pretense of our job worshipping culture is mind numbing.
Edit: Oh almost forgot my “favorite”: environments where open source is leveraged heavily. Millions of lines of imported code, at best 5% was written internally. But somehow the business environment is that they’re engineering thought leaders for building a “tech biz” around a traditional business model. Smh
> Edit: Oh almost forgot my “favorite”: environments where open source is leveraged heavily. Millions of lines of imported code, at best 5% was written internally. But somehow the business environment is that they’re engineering thought leaders for building a “tech biz” around a traditional business model. Smh
This is definitely a serious issue. Imo, unless the project is tiny, your own codebase should be at least the majority of whatever binary is shipped, otherwise you're adding very little value.
At the same time, reimplementing, say the complex video codec pipelines of FFMPEG just because of NIH syndrome would be a massive waste of resources. I think making use of existing solutions (open source or otherwise) when it makes sense rather than trying to implement everything from scratch is a hallmark of a good developer.
Can’t wait for the flat design trend to return in 4-5 years after this light nudge towards flat + a little depth, leads us right back to yellow legal pads with faux leather binding, but all the elements look flatter.
There’s precious little “new frontier” to chase for 2D screens design. Small touches like expanded drag, swipe, etc would be nice. Designing towards doing not fostering emotional attachment to design. The epistemology has come unhinged from its ontology for wankery of theory sake and here we are looking to escape it. It’s no longer serving the true purpose of the gadget, to do utilitarian work. We’re bored with flat and they need to keep us attached emotionally, so here’s our new season of designs!
I’d prefer we return to utilitarian UI of Win2k, OS9, so I can get a job done and not want to be “in love” with a screen
If you look deeper it’s the exact opposite. “Non-flat” design is utilitarian. Win2k, NextStep, Amiga, OS9, all used skeuomorphism and visual affordable in a very straight-forward fashion.
It’s vanity to think we’re encountering some yet unknown human experience here.
It’s new to us individually, but the historical record is littered with exactly your account of “what’s happening.” Administrative state wraps itself around the rubes brainstems to moderate agency.
Obviously it’s fine when it comes to real harm to others. The problem is when a successful person believes that success for them is guaranteed. As much of mainstream America, it’s ridiculous billionaire class has come to believe.
We’ve given them a monopoly on capital, fools. Capital = options. We have none. We’re stupid and must simply enter into debt agreements to exist as a member of an elitists flock.
Or at least that’s the sound forms they might have used when the church owned everything.
Just because the central authority doesn’t “legally” own things doesn’t mean we haven’t ended up right back in the same spot of being controlled by a spiteful hierarchy of self-aggrandizing but otherwise normal men. Less literally violent spot, of course, but still destructive of innate biological rhythms.
People used to go about their day building shit. Now they need to coddle grandpas agreements. Pretty ironic for a country with a founding principle of “fuck gramps and his bullshit agreements.”
Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, the dead should not rule the living. But here we are being guilted into servicing their debts, their opinion on hierarchy, their old demands for wars over what really could have been mental illness back in the day. Somehow if it’s on paper it’s a force of reality, like gravity itself!