Mastodawn

🐙🐇🐝Pointed Sarah🐞🐡🐧Jul 21, 2023

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

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packy Jul 21, 2023

@sc_griffith I'm a programmer, and I feel like this ALL THE TIME. There is so much technology out there now that feels like it serves no purpose other than to promote some other technology whose only purpose is to put money in some huge corporation's coffers.

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Robin Adams

@packy @sc_griffith It's not just annoying, it's a problem for safety, security and privacy. Relevant: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/

A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) - Bert Hubert's writings

This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. The really short version: the way we build/ship software these days is mostly ridiculous, leading to 350MB packages that draw graphs, and simple products importing 1600 dependencies of unknown provenance.

Bert Hubert's writings