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1. ⭑ salma Bluesky 2 min later

   zach

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 5 min later

      I’ll take that as a *shhhhh* 😅

2. cuan_knaggs Mastodon 2 min later

   @zachleat that's going to have to be a "no" from me boss

3. Brian LeRoux Bluesky 2 min later

   Absolutely. Sturgeons Law still prevails however

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 5 min later

      *eyes narrow in statistics*

      1. Brian LeRoux Bluesky 10 min later

         10% good sure is a smol number when the total pie has grown by several orders of magnitude. Bet we could find correlation in the good vs bad based on how big node_modules is.

         1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 14 min later

            I appreciate this ray of sunshine! 🙌

            1. Brian LeRoux Bluesky 18 min later

               I remain irrationally optimistic despite...well yeah

4. Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson Mastodon 6 min later

   @zachleat hard no

5. Philipp Tootloff Mastodon 7 min later

   @zachleat Have you been hacked?

   Proof you're the real Zach by answering whether the docs link should be:

   - bigger
   - smaller
   - same size

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later

      @kleinfreund always bigger

6. Emiliano Soravia Mastodon 13 min later

   @zachleat Overall? Worse. Faster to ship, cheaper to build, less care. Reused patterns everywhere, rushed delivery, and UX—especially on mobile—has become hostile by default.

7. Private reply Bluesky 16 min later
   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      …is this how I learn about Caves of Qud

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8. Kilian Valkhof Bluesky 26 min later

   ...mine is.

   1. Kilian Valkhof Bluesky 27 min later

      On the other hand it's now been... 15 years (oh god) since my operating system was actually smart.

      www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/09/earc...

      1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

         *stares at Apple, iPhone ringing on macOS, still blaring Apple Music*

   2. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      hell yeah

   3. Alberto Calvo Bluesky 2 hr later
9. Eric Portis Mastodon 28 min later

   @zachleat it's certainly getting bigger!

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later

      @eeeps software is like a lifted pickup truck, in this essay I will…

10. Timothy Leverett Mastodon 50 min later

    @zachleat absolutely yes. It's just that there's so much more of it that working software is unnoticeable, so we can only think of the times it fails us.

    The barrier to entry is also much lower, so there are plenty of developers who are learning in production, and didn't benefit from the slow methodical practice of writing software back when hours were cheap and hardware was expensive.

    We expect modern software engineers to do more with much less and it mostly works which is amazing.

11. Ted M. Young Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat The software I write is getting better, but everything else is getting worse.

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 2 hr later

       @jitterted I… 😅

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