I really hate that smart people are the worst kind of cultists. This means that people who do some pretty cool and novel stuff fall for things like Musk-fanboyism, NFT and other crypto BS, or things like outright fascistoid ideas about "MSM"-conspiracies, race-ideology or IQ... And I hate it.

Smart people who think they have "figured it out" are the most dangerous people out there. Especially if they have any kind of rethorical skills.

Almost all of the issue trackers

Why can't any of them just decide to be good for one kind of process. Trying to fit in support for all of them just makes the products worse.

If you really want to cater to every style of issue tracking/work queue just make a low code platform from the start instead of the unholy mess that is jira

In my experience object oriented is very good for composing high level abstractions into a complete system. Functional is awesome for validation, parsing and massaging data in any way and imperative is tithe most useful paradigm to handle side effect dependent code that either manipulate the computers state ( read/write) or communicate with external systems.

The people acting as if one of them is the one true way are misleading you.

I really hope copilot can make us have the discussion about what right companies have to exploit publically accessible work as fodder for their machine learning systems that they earn money on. Copilot is 100% about trying to monetize githubs users without paying for it.

One of the most infuriating ideas in software development culture is that you can build maintainable applications without a strictly enforced type system and structured data.

Sure, it's more fun to wack around a dynamically typed system until it works or to write a major application with mutable datastructures... It's a least fun until a few years in and you have to debug an unexpected overwrite or a inconsistent use of an object property or whatever.

Anyone who writes maintainable code eventually figures out that you need rules and procedures, the issue with JavaScript, python, ruby, lisp, etc developers is that they think it's us developers that needs to enforce these rules instead of the compiler (which is infinitely better at it).

NFTs and cryptocurrency is a scam and it annoys the fuck out of me that big names keep pushing them... Especially people in software development that really should be able to see through the bullshit.

Hey kids, do you want to know what's cool and hip?

Writing scripts to formalize and encode domain specific procedures related to development and sharing it within the entire team is cool!

Readmes with step-by-step guides are highly overrated.

"hey, how's the GDPR/'right to be forgotten' functionality going?"

"I think dev1 basically completed it before he quit... But it's been 2 months so I'm not sure."

"Well... What's the worst that could happen."

The more I work with programming languages the more i feel like it's a big mistake to build functionality into the language. Especially functionality to extend the language, we developers have no fucking clue of how to write DSL languages that interact well with other developers code. We can not deal with the power!

Keep languages simple and extensibility very restricted, domain functionality belongs in libraries.

Also #deathtoframeworks