@Socsa But what about in practice?
Rollerblading, programming, writing, documentaries, travel, motorbikes… That’s it!
Preferably o@gts.olowe.co.
This account is here to interact with bits of the Fediverse which don’t play nicely with GoToSocial.
@Socsa But what about in practice?
@Aatube Oh I wouldn’t be so sure… we’ve all had those colleagues and vendors where we think they’d import something like this to make our lives miserable ;)
@Mad_Punda it’s funny because the name “overtime” loses meaning when it becomes normal. I hereby propose the name “overovertime” (I’m good at names that’s why I’m a great programmer)
@copygirl Oh man, is non-AI assisted programming old-school already? :(
@poVoq Agreed. It got me thinking. But feels almost entirely ideological, conflating social media (e.g. Twitter, Reddit) with “the digital world”.
Saying git is a “failed attempt at decentralisation” just because GitHub is popular misses that GitHub is less critical infrastructure than it would be if we only had CVS or Subversion.
I’m encouraged by incremental, practical decentralisation efforts outside of social media. It’s slow, kinda boring but it’s real and happening today.
> Part of the reason for bloat is the fact that frameworks and libraries became huge
Absolutely. What I find funny is that the inverse is kinda true, too. Tiny dependencies (as seen in the Javascript world) are also to blame. They’re so small, I’ve noticed some devs say “well it’s so small, what’s the harm of one more?”. Bloat by a thousand deps.
@solrize 43 years young.
When I hear people talk about system issues (e.g. complex microservice architectures) I thought it was all cutting-edge problems of cutting-edge tech. Looks like people have been running into the same things for decades!
@mac Related: Why the SQLite team uses Fossil instead of Git https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
From the forum: “If I know IBM at all, behind the scenes it’ll end up being a bunch of junior programmers doing the work, after the AI branded tech fails. It’ll still be called Watson tho…” https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/ibm’s-generative-ai-tool-aims-to-refactor-ancient-cobol-code-for-its-mainframes.1495343/post-42133422
Seems like some good improvements to internals about which I’m not a strong enough programmer to understand.
@CoderSupreme The founder of StackOverflow went on to work on Discourse (https://discourse.org). There’s actually an ActivityPub plugin available nowadays, so apparently people can contribute from whatever fediverse server they’re coming from. For example see Go Bridge (https://forum.golangbridge.org)
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