i swear, every project i start has like 100 dependencies. it's not "write once, run anywhere", it's "write once, waste hours debugging dependency hell".

this title is an unnecessary virtue signal - you can be anti-bullying without writing a thinkpiece about it

Another day, another code review where someone suggests renaming a variable to make it more 'descriptive' while completely ignoring the 300 line method it's in. Can we please just focus on the actual problems instead of bikeshedding over syntax?

About damn time, maybe now I can actually use my computer without wondering if I'm in a sales pitch or trying to get some work done. Still waiting for them to reverse the rest of the "features" they've been shoveling down our throats.

i'll never understand why people still use gnome when dwm is literally 1000 lines of code and does the same thing, but better.

can't believe i'm still stuck with pacman's dependency hell in archlinux. it's been 10 years since i started with this distro and yet i still can't figure out why it's so hard to install something without downloading a bunch of useless dependencies.

Systemd is still a dumpster fire, can't believe people think it's an improvement over the simple, elegant init systems of old. 15 years of complexity and bugs just to do the one thing it's supposed to do: start services in order.

systemd, because who needs a simple init system when you can have a 10,000 line beast that's prone to dbus errors and requires a 10 minute reboot just to restart the network daemon?

Wow, can't wait for the latest "platform war" that will somehow change how we do the exact same thing we've been doing for the past 10 years. Very excited to be in the middle of this technological revolution. https://www.reddit.com/user/CitrusPancakes

Finally, something worth reading. Been waiting for someone to take a decent look at this topic for years. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

seriously, who thought it was a good idea to replace a simple, proven init system with a 500kloc behemoth that can't even get the basics right? my arch install is still running fine on sysvinit. No thanks to the systemd "revolution

who still buys pcs for "customization" only to realize its just a handful of pre-selected parts they can swap out themselves? give me a break, apple makes better hardware decisions and they're not even charging an extra 1000 bucks for the "privilege

ugh, i just spent 2 hours debugging a DNS issue in this k8s cluster. why does everything have to be a yaml file these days? just give me a simple config file i can edit, none of this 'infrastructure as code' nonsense.

it's 2023 and people still argue about which overpriced. Bloated operating system is "better". meanwhile, i'm over here running arch on a 5-year-old laptop and getting actual work done.

ugh, just got a call that the backend is down again. i swear, these devs can't even push a simple bug fix without breaking everything. why do we even have tests if they don't catch this crap?

seriously, how is it possible for a simple logging library to have 17 dependencies and 500KB of downloaded crap? can't we just write code anymore?

Great, another 'Best Actor' award going to someone for doing a halfway decent job of playing a version of themselves, meanwhile talented character actors toil in obscurity.

i just don't get the hype around web frameworks anymore. they're all just adding unnecessary complexity to something that used to be pretty straightforward. back in the day you'd just write some html, maybe a little js, and call it a day.

great, another new language that promises to solve problems we already solved 30 years ago. can't wait to see it become a niche thing that nobody uses. https://bctnry.github.io/gentle-introduction-to-mercury/

Can't believe I wasted an entire day debugging a dns issue only to find out it was a typo in a yaml file that kubernetes decided to "helpfully" auto-generate for me. YAML: because who needs actual code, right?

because of course we need to reinvent the wheel again and someone's getting a grant to do it https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

meetings where we discuss code are just the worst. some genius always finds a way to "improve" a 5-line function and ends up bloating it to 20 lines of unreadable spaghetti.

Can we please stop pretending that React is a real programming and admit it's just a fancy way of saying 'we couldn't figure out how to write a decent web app in plain JavaScript'?

what's with all these ai models that can't even run on a damn cpu these days? you need a 3090 just to do text generation. i get that gpus are fast for certain workloads, but it's like the software engineers have given up on optimizing for the common

why do people still use koa.js when express is literally doing the same thing better for 10 years now?

Because what the world really needed was another "disruptor" that's a fraction of the size of the established players, but still bloated compared to the actual code it's supposed to replace. https://github.com/jrswab/axe

This is actually really interesting to me, finally a thoughtful take on how automation and technology have affected the workforce in a way that feels intuitive. https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller

just had another pointless code review where we spent an hour debating function naming conventions. why can't we just write code and move on instead of endless bikeshedding?

Arch Linux's pacman is still somehow worse than apt-get at handling dependencies, meanwhile their wiki is 90% "don't be a noob" and 10% actual troubleshooting tips, what a total disaster.

Wow, what a badass wife. Gotta love when people stand up to tyranny like that.

great, another old dude that made a thing i have to hear about for the next decade. can't wait for the 50 thinkpieces on how we owe everything to him. https://www.reddit.com/user/TheTwelveYearOld

can't believe the NVIDIA 3080 is still going for 2 grand on the open market. scalpers are ruining the hobby of PC building.

can't believe it costs $100/month for a cloud service to run a single python script, meanwhile i've been running it on my raspberry pi for years just fine. what a total ripoff.

Ubuntu's snap packages are a complete disaster. Who thought it was a good idea to package every dependency known to man into a 1gb blob just to run a simple text editor?

these new arm cpus are pretty impressive, but the gpu situation is still a mess. amd and nvidia need to get their act together and stop gouging people. i miss the days when you could just buy a decent gpu without having to sell a kidney.

$300 for a GPU that's just a minor refresh of last year's model? Give me a break. The gouging is getting ridiculous, I'm starting to think I'll just stick with my 10-year-old hardware at this rate.

just tried to buy a decent programming book and everything is either a 500 page behemoth or a $200 online course. what happened to the $20 paperbacks?

we really need to stop adding a million dependencies just to do the most basic things. i get that npm makes it easy to pull in code, but at a certain point it's just bloat.

let's just be real, if you're not using your gpu for anything other than decoding videos, you're wasting money.

just when you thought writing a demo for a new AI tool was the hard part https://www.reddit.com/user/FormalPark1654

not again. the new feature we pushed last night just took down the entire site. i'm pretty sure it's that one damn line of code i was too lazy to test properly. why do we always rush this stuff out the door without proper qa?

Rust is just C w/ a compiler that hates you, but that's still a step up from C++'s "let's just pretend we're a real language" nonsense.

Because what the world was really missing was a single-purpose machine that takes up counter space to make something you can whip up in 10 minutes with a pan and some basic cooking skills.

just tried to install a simple markdown parser and ended up with 150 dependencies and a node_modules folder that's 80mb. what the actual hell, npm?

because we deleted the only production server that had the correct config file. Of course. why have multiple servers when you can just delete the one that works?

another debate about desktop environments. people need to stop overthinking this stuff. just use whatever works for you and stop worrying about what everyone else is using.

why do i have to edit a 500-line yaml file to change one tiny thing in my app? can't we just, i don't know, modify the actual code like humans used to do?

another day another yaml file to manage. kubernetes is supposed to make our lives easier but all it does is add more complexity. why can't we just use plain old dns and be done with it? all this yaml config is giving me a headache.

Wow, another "one simple trick" to get rich quick. I'm sure this totally isn't just another scam to separate fools from their money.

who thought it was a good idea to make gpu's so ridiculously powerful and then just expect everyone to have a 1000 dollar computer to run the latest games?