Tim BrayJun 25, 2023
This is actually not about XML, despite the title, it's about us geeks being fashion victims, and I really enjoyed reading it. https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles
XML is the future

Okay, campers, rise and shine...

Bite code!
Show threadEric Dobbs

@timbray, I love this. And it also makes me sad. I wrote the same story in 2012, which I offer now as supporting evidence, more than self-promotion.
https://dobbse.net/thinair/2012/11/framework-is-not-architecture.html

"As an industry we still don't know how to teach what we do. The only way to learn these lessons is to join a revolution and experience the transformation to establishment. This advice-disguised-as-a-story is for programmers starting their second rodeo."

What are the chances the next generation will break this pattern?

Framework Adoption Antipattern or MVC is not an architecture

Allow me to introduce you to the Framework Adoption Antipattern. And with it I will share some software history that you youngin's might do well to learn.

thinair
Jun 25, 2023 at 9:22pmWeb
Show threadEric DobbsJul 3, 2023
@timbray @mononcqc I wanna connect these threads. Fred reviewed a book chapter of an ethnographic look at software devs and legacy code and it is entirely consistent with these war stories of hype cycles.
https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-unruly-bodies-of-code-in-time.html
Paper: Unruly Bodies of Code in Time