i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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@eniko Preach. I want developers to be artisans and craftspeople who build for the ages.
@eniko As a matter of fact I want this to be the de facto approach to how we make new things but sometimes when I say this people think I mean stuff like woodworking and blacksmithing which, yes, but also computers, and phones, and bicycles electric and acoustic, and everything else.
I want *everything* to be made by people who have cause to take pride in their work.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko
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@datarama @daviddoes @eniko But don't you want the "better" experience
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko Agreed.
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@eniko But then the boss would have fewer people to manage, and be unable to justify his job. Most software changes are about employment for engineers, not necessity. Grr.
As a software engineer I want computer languages and frameworks that stay stable for decades rather than have a new release every year that obsoletes old programs and requires a rewrite. But I don't get to have that :(.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko I also want the updates to spend more time in UAT/Staging instead of being pushed straight into production.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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@datarama @daviddoes @eniko I do not only want my toaster to be part of a botnet, I want my toaster to not have electronics AT ALL.
There is no reason for my fridge, toaster or oven to have a microcontroller. Really, we've been doing these things a century and today we seem to default to adding microcontrollers to everything.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko
isnt þe unix philosophy "every program should do one job and do it well"? can we just make þat law? i would love a world where every program solved / did one þing i wanted and nþn else. -
@bencourtice @eniko
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko Preach.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko I can switch on a BBC micro and load View in less time than I can wake my Windows 11 laptop and load MS Word. Seems that the faster computers become; the longer it takes to do the same things with them.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko +9001%
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@eniko can we also request the coders to have a nap time during the day? Rest is important, and I'm not kidding about that either.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko I miss the days where getting an update was like christmas. Now I mumble to myself 'what did you mess up this time..'
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko And fewer applications. Today I learned that Ubuntu now has Snapshot, as well as screenshot but that Snapshot shows up as Camera, though it didn't when it was called Cheese. This happened 2 years ago.
(well except the paid part)
