Y'know how there's a pattern of behavior where someone says something is bad about the tech industry or community or OSS software or something, and then every single nerd within a 50 square mile radius says *WELL ACKTUALLY*??
I just realized that if, like, even 10% of them just... Sat down and spent some energy fixing the problem instead of insulting someone for experiencing it, we would've solved all those issues by now
*deep breath*
GUIs are broken on Linux
Good OSS photo editing tools don't exist
That goes for video editing as well, and audio, and literally anything that isn't blender
Mobile and touch screens? In this OSS? Pffh
"Coding on an iPad means you're a fake loser" is a sentiment that needs to stop
WordPress and PHP are real, useful, and your ego won't die if you admit you use them
CSS is a real programming language, so is html
*deep breath continues*
Low code isn't trash, you're just bad at building tools your coworkers can use
"Technical user" doesn't mean "I use vim". The people from $NOT_ENGINEERING are fuckin awesome, stop refusing to acknowledge they exist
Your ETL pipeline could've been an excel spreadsheet if you weren't elitist about it
Your whole startup could've been a pivot table + some visual basic, honestly
Algorithms™ aren't all bad, you just hate being reminded that you're susceptible to feelings
@hazelweakly this blew my mind a bit. I've spent a lot of my career working in the financial industry, and the situation is almost inverted there. The first department-wide e-mail I got on my first job out of university was the CFO celebrating the successful decommissioning of 300 Excel sheets 😅. Some of them were chonky multi-100 mb things on a shared drive, that took minutes to open.
So what you're telling me is that people just hate Excel on some BS nerd-cred grounds? Honestly should have known, but stupidly assumed they had more practical reasons 🫤
@spoltier yup! There are absolutely times when you should use a real database, but so many people out there are building massive complicated databases in order to handle a system that does 100 queries per second. If that. On .... 6000 rows of data
That is well into "this could probably just be one table in Excel if not entirely one JSON fuckin object" territory
But no, multi year project, tons of engineering effort. For no reason