Mike Thelen
brennenyoung me: i wonder if this new technical thing is cool
middle-aged me: i wonder if i can avoid knowing about this new technical thing until it goes away
incurious you say? bullshit, you. i'm downright _anti_-curious at this stage of the game.
Mike Samuel@brennen At this point, I weight it against what I'd have to forget to fit it in?
¿Pascal, Perl, Prolog, Python, other PLs that start with 'P'?
or
¡15 Best React frameworks in 2022!
Jyrgen N
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦
Jonathan Hendry“Time to rewrite everything from scratch again.”
don't make eye contact, no sudden movements, try to look large, don't bend down or run away
if attacked, fight back
quiddity@brennen people keep telling me this is what I should do if I meet a bear, but I swear my Bear Pacification Kit™ will be fine! (1 Fisher-Price record player with Eno's "Music for Airports", 1 jar of honey). #futurefood
Jeff GriggDarn Near Everyone Around Me:
"This is a Revolutionary New Technology! This Changes EVERYTHING!!! ALL Jobs Will Be Obsolete!!! Everything Changes!!!"
And I'm like,
"Chill dude.
"We've been working on these technologies, as an industry, for 67 years now.
"You Do Not Understand it's Limitations and Problems.
"Sure; there are, honestly, Really Great uses for these things.
"In fact, many are a regular part of your life now, as you probably have not noticed.
...
>>> BUT <<<
"You're setting yourselves up for some Severe Letdowns when you find, from experience, what many others have found from experience, since before you were born (and even before I was born!!!) what Limitations and Problems are *Inherent* in these techniques, technologies, and approaches.
"So I'm going to 'sit this one out' (mostly) for a while, and expect to watch you *really burn yourselves*.
...
(And maybe, just maybe, ...
Maybe some good things, here and there, will come out of all this Panic, Thrashing, and Mad Chasing After Phantoms that's going on.)
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Dr Sorcha O’Brien@JeffGrigg @brennen But they will end up being something that nobody, particularly the hype merchants, ever expected.
Ailbhe@_sorcha @JeffGrigg @brennen but later you'll realise that use case is in a sci fi short story from 1932.
Raven Onthill@brennen chuckle. Yeah. It's depressing how much new technology is so awful.
David Beazley@brennen Wise me: yes.
Lot⁴⁹@brennen I can remember being excited about a Nokia 6185. It had a swivel belt clip!
Firehorseart Lives!You have my sympathies
Whilst I am still curious about new tech, I'm also very tired.
I enjoy learning about new stuff but now I also hope to find a beginner's guide to it all. 
j robinson ☕️ &🍸@brennen
geezer me: you kids get off my grass!
geezer me: you kids get off my grass!
Falcon Darkstar@brennen one gets exhausted after being burned time and time again by mindless hype squads.
Susan A. Kitchens@brennen I feel so seen
ocdtrekkie@brennen I have pretty much succeeded here for "the cloud". My work is still almost entirely on-premise and detransitioning has now become a buzzword in the CTO circles.
Rishi556 :unverified:@brennen Explains IPv6 adoption.
Steven Hilton@brennen web3 nft metaverse... The VC hypetrain always some new hot tech to pitch.
Thomas Beagle@brennen old me: i love legacy systems
Juan Villela@brennen I have finally reached this stage in my personal and professional life. I actively avoid any new tech or framework and complain that we should go back to like 1 or 2 frameworks.
Alex Wild@brennen Really glad I kept putting off learning what NFTs were.
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Eli the BeardedChaucer: Men loven of newfangleness
[Spongebob-esque One Millennia Later]
Men: Stop it with the newfangled
Francis (is looking for work)@brennen me with React 💀
Derek Caelin is writing a book@brennen also me: will this cool thing erode democracy?
Russell Garner
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Arvid E. Picciani
Awesome Ian@brennen I really need to get back time from the chasing squirrels down rabbit holes.
Ben Curthoys@brennen young me: This new technical thing looks cool. I'll learn about it.
middle-aged me: This new technical thing looks cool. If I waste my time learning about it, it will get sold out to some global megacorp who will monetise it in increasingly annoying and intrusive ways leading to eventual total enshittification and / or cancel it.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵
Jesse@brennen ignoring new tech is like time travel.
Becca 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 🇵🇸@brennen frontend me: I just need to wait for 6 months (or Abramov posting on github) for this to become obsolete...
JR Rickerson 
@brennen AKA "What old thing have they reinvented and rebranded this week?"
Ian Tindale@brennen the only computer programming I’ve ever tried is a bit of FORTH, circa early 80s [1]
When FORTH went away, I just assumed that computer programming had also gone away
[1] and eventually got the sack for it – tinkering with computers failing to make stuff work wasn’t what I was supposed to be doing, industrial photography was what I was supposed to be doing
@brennen
old me: I wonder if I can avoid knowing about this new technical thing until I go away
old me: I wonder if I can avoid knowing about this new technical thing until I go away
Patrick (he/him) 🥑
@brennen DevRel me gesturing to this toot whenever someone asks me why devs aren't organically adopting a new API.
Carsten Fuhs@brennen +1 from Douglas Adams: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-set-of-rules-that-describe
Kevin Riggle@brennen cybersecurity me: or at least avoid needing to understand it until I get pulled into an incident involving it
Scott Michaud@brennen
Junior: I hope this doesn't crash.
Senior: I hope this crashes as soon as possible.
Veteran: I hope this doesn't crash until at least May.
Junior: Wait, what?
Junior: I hope this doesn't crash.
Senior: I hope this crashes as soon as possible.
Veteran: I hope this doesn't crash until at least May.
Junior: Wait, what?
Rich@brennen hey, remember when iBeacons were going to change the world?
Daniel Hunter@brennen You haven’t lived in the IT industry until you’ve been declared obsolete by three new generations of programmers.
Niko@brennen @jjwolverine *whispers* ~kubernetes~
Xauri'EL Zwaan@brennen consider, however: the technological advances being made when we were younger were cool ans awesome, whereas the technological advances being made now are bad and evil
@brennen tech influencers in 1990: we're going to put all knowledge ever accumulated by the human race at your fingertips!
Tech infuencers in 2023: let's make an automated misinformation generator that will also destroy the livelihood of every artist on the planet
Simeon Nedkov@brennen Worked for microservices and SPAs. ✌🏻
didn't i already open xcode@brennen this is also how I felt about mastodon
henesy@brennen avoided training for the 'new' system at previous job and did so successfully until the 'newer' system replaced it
never interacted with it once in an administrative capacity, no complaints
Matt Palmer
Robotbeat@brennen “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
—Douglas Adams
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
—Douglas Adams
@brennen I notice this in myself quite a bit.