akareillyJan 25, 2023
If you insist that people learn to code in order to use technology, I'm going to insist that you grow your own flax, do the retting, spin it, weave it, and sew it before you're allowed to wear pants.
Show threadHarshad SharmaJan 25, 2023

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related tangent: I grew up with Visual Basic and love Hypercard - the tools that allowed novices to learn and make useful apps. They were mocked into extinction as not "real programming" and were replaced with *gestures around at the hot mess* - i am still seething at the lost productivity because certain kind of people keep complicating everyone's lives to feed their own egos.

And then they have the chutzpah to tell everyone else to jump through needless hoops to get basic things done.

Show threadFeralRobotsJan 25, 2023
@harshad
Boy this takes me back. Not to hypercard, but to learning my trade in the '90s & seeing case after case of people presenting harder web based ways of doing everything as though they were revolutionary.
Show threadHarshad SharmaJan 25, 2023
@FeralRobots it's all a distraction for job security of the gatekeepers. I can't see this any other way now.
Show threadFeralRobots
@harshad
I do believe that's a lot of it, but I think there are also insitutional ways that knowledge just gets lost - one of those is that generations have to distinguish their contribution from that of their predecessors. In its extreme manifestation, everything the predecessor did has to suck.
Jan 25, 2023 at 5:54pmWeb