endless bummerMay 11, 2019

still thinking about open source contributions that aren’t code and really focusing on design.

in my time at the LF — which does serve a need, but only because: capitalism — i often felt like folks were almost TOO “deep in” to see little things that i felt were obvious.

everyone shouting “well if we don’t establish a shared governance committee to ensure future interoperability of the underlying frameworks.…!” and i’m like “ok wild idea here but what if the apps weren’t hard to use and ugly”

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@alana FOSS nerds prefer things that are hard to use out of some sense of superiority they feel when they finally figure it out and in the same breath bemoan that no one uses FOSS and everyone prefers the closed source privately funded alternative that hired one UI/UX person and a graphic designer.
May 11, 2019 at 4:07pmWeb
Show threadMagister EndomainMay 11, 2019

@vulcao @alana

They also have people like me who genuinely have no idea what people find hard or easy. What folks like me gotta remember is that we're lucky enough to be extraordinarily fluent with computers, but this makes it nearly impossible to have sympathy with people who do not. As such, we should rely on folks who have a more balanced perspective rather than expecting everyone in the world to rewrite their lives to be digital natives. Anything less is classist at best.

Show threadJessMay 11, 2019
@endomain @vulcao @alana Well said. For perspective, I know many younger devs in their teens - 30s who are domain specialists: good at writing machine learning models or doing frontend websites, but know almost no bash/Make/Linux. Give them a repo with a Makefile as the way to build something, or anything with bash scripts that require tweaking and they're immediately defeated.