A grey-haired developer that has seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
“The ones trying to revive the 2000s internet spirit/experience”
That was one of the reasons why I recently move from Twitter/X, Instagram… to the fediverse. And honestly I didn’t pay attention to Medium as I don’t write so often. I will take a look at dev.to and proably I will move my (three) Medium articles here. Thank you so much!
Sorry for the self-reference but… https://medium.com/@nandofm/ai-the-danger-of-endogamic-programming-8114b90dffb2
Fixed!
“Fotran: You are old dead and a nerd”
This sounds like socialism is good for capitalists
Was It shareware? Didn’t know it!
I’m still enjoying It with OpenTTD https://www.openttd.org/
This is where the programmer’s way to humbleness starts :-D
This is probably more accurate:
-Who the fuck wrote such a shit!
-WHO???
-…
-Oh… it was me…
My first distro was a Slackware that came on a CD of a magazine in the late 90s. Amazing how Linux quickly evolved and was available for people.
I can’t agree more!
implementing, operating and debugging this architecture is left as an exercise for the reader
Challenge accepted by a reader using AI, what could go wrong? xD
I’m glad that you like it but sorry for taking you to the dark side :-)
You are completely right, in the early 2000 and before, sites where built to share, help and learn. The word “enshitification” describes perfectly the current landscape. Luckily there are some oasis, like the fediverse and other places, where we can still feel Internet as it should be.