mesa @ mesamunefire @piefed.social

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I hate teams. We use it for work and everyone just haaaates it. OAuth half the time doesn't work, so we have to go to the browser.

Windows updates have broken it and it wont open as an app a couple of times. It takes up an obscene amount of CPU just sitting there being an electron app. My work windows box has about 2x the specs of my laptop and my laptop runs sooo much faster than windows/teams bs. Windows 11 is going to use react on the start bar....and I cant imagine what this is going to look like with teams on top. I wish we got linux/*NIX machines to work with like my last job.

I once made a good roll and my character threw a goat at a kobold. Halflings +1 to throwing.

My DM started to calculate the damage, gave up and just said the kobold died. Then we figured out goats had more hp than kobolds and had a goat in the party...til the end of the campaign lol. It's was out goat of holding.

Age of empires 2. Still works.

Yep had to do a lot of work getting it to a good place.

Vim for most things. Vscode for js things. Jetbrains for specific stacks like all Python or such. VS for .net.

IDEs sure come and go, buy I seem to always go back to vim after a while.

It's the next RTO.

I kinda like the fediverse as is. We keep slowly growing our services. We don't need to be social media.

We can be social sure but without the need to be ever growing. I would rather us concentrate on the people and giving us power rather than huge orgs that are going to do huge org things.

I may test it out. I believe it will at least work with RSS and Piefed.

GL! Thats a hard one.

Ive found my highest paying roles were in traditional workplaces with very specific duties. Startups in my area dont usually do well. But I hear stories of people hitting big. Seems like a very high risk/reward situation.

Yep users move over time. Its the natural order of things. I disagree with the article that moving away from SO is "bad news for developers " as long as we have something better in the works. It looks like Discord is the thing everyone is jumping on, which kinda sucks.

Im a bit confused. Are you in a startup? And you are learning the ropes on the business side?

Yep I agree. Its a combo of many different things.

I cant tell you the last time I was on SO for a question. its been that long.

The article also goes into it, but I think the invent of AI and asking somewhat specific questions may also explain the decline. If you can get a result that can get you 90% of the way there with an AI that used stack overflow as a resource, theres no reason to actually ask on stack overflow. Its faster to go on the AI result or go on google/bing/etc...etc... that has the answer right there on the page.

And the redesign....its pretty bad in my opinion.

I was once downvoted answering a question on a library....that I created on stack overflow. Still makes me laugh.

For me: I did a LOT of contracting/small jobs at first and found im pretty good at anything that plugs into the wall. Then found out you can get paid if you just deliver reliably.

Also getting into a niche can help your $$. I did EDI for a bit and it helped later on. No one knows EDI (for good reason).

Oh yeah, ive been doing this for close to 20 years now. I have YEARs worth of savings if need be. If they want to get rid of me, ill have a job lined up in a couple of months as im literally at the beach. I dont work overtime.

Time is a much more valuable commodity. I appreciate the comment.

My guess? The freemium stuff gives the promise of $$ after a certain level of popularity. And they make it VERY easy to use.

Personally, ive been thinking of using writefreely for its seamless integration of fediverse...but I really dont have a lot to say in the traditional space. IE screaming at the wailing wall (or at least it feels like screaming at the wailing wall).

Also is substack the new meduim? I cant keep up with these freemium wordpress/blog clones.

I feel like this is a repeat of the "just hire someone overseas" again. The projects will go haywire after an initial promise...and the only ones that can fix it are the experienced devs. Cant tell you how many projects I got over the years like that.

That graph tells a story.

I hacked my CPAP. I removed the cancer causing material and did work getting the software in a better state. Also removed the mobile chip that communicates with the original company. Fun times.