(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
> Then there comes in feature creep.
This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.
All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.
It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.
A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
> Then there comes in feature creep.
This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.
All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.
It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.
A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
> Then there comes in feature creep.
This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.
All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.
It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.
A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
> Then there comes in feature creep.
This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.
All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.
It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.
A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.
Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.
Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.
Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.
Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
Very few people do take pride in building simple, elegant, high-quality systems, do they? Why is that? Why are huge shiny things with tons of features more attractive? 🤔
I never explicitly thought about this, to be honest. It was only at the back of my head. And I never tried to teach our younger “students” at work: “Hey, it’s a great achievement to build something simple and elegant. That’s something to be proud of!”
Worse, simple software is often described as “boring”. Yes, in a way, it is boring, because your brain doesn’t have to get into overdrive to understand it. But that’s exactly the point. And it’s *hard to achieve that*! Simple software isn’t just “fewer lines of code”, you have to be pretty clever to solve a problem in a simple and elegant way. So it’s something to be proud of.
Could this be an intuitive, *emotional* way to get more people on board the “simple software”-train? 🤔
Very few people do take pride in building simple, elegant, high-quality systems, do they? Why is that? Why are huge shiny things with tons of features more attractive? 🤔
I never explicitly thought about this, to be honest. It was only at the back of my head. And I never tried to teach our younger “students” at work: “Hey, it’s a great achievement to build something simple and elegant. That’s something to be proud of!”
Worse, simple software is often described as “boring”. Yes, in a way, it is boring, because your brain doesn’t have to get into overdrive to understand it. But that’s exactly the point. And it’s *hard to achieve that*! Simple software isn’t just “fewer lines of code”, you have to be pretty clever to solve a problem in a simple and elegant way. So it’s something to be proud of.
Could this be an intuitive, *emotional* way to get more people on board the “simple software”-train? 🤔
Very few people do take pride in building simple, elegant, high-quality systems, do they? Why is that? Why are huge shiny things with tons of features more attractive? 🤔
I never explicitly thought about this, to be honest. It was only at the back of my head. And I never tried to teach our younger “students” at work: “Hey, it’s a great achievement to build something simple and elegant. That’s something to be proud of!”
Worse, simple software is often described as “boring”. Yes, in a way, it is boring, because your brain doesn’t have to get into overdrive to understand it. But that’s exactly the point. And it’s *hard to achieve that*! Simple software isn’t just “fewer lines of code”, you have to be pretty clever to solve a problem in a simple and elegant way. So it’s something to be proud of.
Could this be an intuitive, *emotional* way to get more people on board the “simple software”-train? 🤔
Very few people do take pride in building simple, elegant, high-quality systems, do they? Why is that? Why are huge shiny things with tons of features more attractive? 🤔
I never explicitly thought about this, to be honest. It was only at the back of my head. And I never tried to teach our younger “students” at work: “Hey, it’s a great achievement to build something simple and elegant. That’s something to be proud of!”
Worse, simple software is often described as “boring”. Yes, in a way, it is boring, because your brain doesn’t have to get into overdrive to understand it. But that’s exactly the point. And it’s *hard to achieve that*! Simple software isn’t just “fewer lines of code”, you have to be pretty clever to solve a problem in a simple and elegant way. So it’s something to be proud of.
Could this be an intuitive, *emotional* way to get more people on board the “simple software”-train? 🤔
Focus on quality, focus on “doing it right”, make that your primary goal. And everything else shall fall into place.
If it only were that simple. 🫤😅
Focus on quality, focus on “doing it right”, make that your primary goal. And everything else shall fall into place.
If it only were that simple. 🫤😅
Focus on quality, focus on “doing it right”, make that your primary goal. And everything else shall fall into place.
If it only were that simple. 🫤😅
Focus on quality, focus on “doing it right”, make that your primary goal. And everything else shall fall into place.
If it only were that simple. 🫤😅
“Joy of missing out”, eh? :D
“Joy of missing out”, eh? :D
“Joy of missing out”, eh? :D
“Joy of missing out”, eh? :D
I’ll probably shut it down.
Nobody cares about privacy. The reasons I bring up in discussions are “too nerdy”. They put *all* their stuff to Google or Apple, so why would messaging be any different? (We’re not even using all those Matrix crypto stuff … That would be insane.)
It’s a lost cause. I’m frustrated.
Will I give in and use WhatsApp instead? Not sure yet.
I’ll probably shut it down.
Nobody cares about privacy. The reasons I bring up in discussions are “too nerdy”. They put *all* their stuff to Google or Apple, so why would messaging be any different? (We’re not even using all those Matrix crypto stuff … That would be insane.)
It’s a lost cause. I’m frustrated.
Will I give in and use WhatsApp instead? Not sure yet.
I’ll probably shut it down.
Nobody cares about privacy. The reasons I bring up in discussions are “too nerdy”. They put *all* their stuff to Google or Apple, so why would messaging be any different? (We’re not even using all those Matrix crypto stuff … That would be insane.)
It’s a lost cause. I’m frustrated.
Will I give in and use WhatsApp instead? Not sure yet.
I’ll probably shut it down.
Nobody cares about privacy. The reasons I bring up in discussions are “too nerdy”. They put *all* their stuff to Google or Apple, so why would messaging be any different? (We’re not even using all those Matrix crypto stuff … That would be insane.)
It’s a lost cause. I’m frustrated.
Will I give in and use WhatsApp instead? Not sure yet.
It’s somewhat telling that the HTMX blogpost also (mostly) only talks about feelings, not hard facts.
It’s somewhat telling that the HTMX blogpost also (mostly) only talks about feelings, not hard facts.
It’s somewhat telling that the HTMX blogpost also (mostly) only talks about feelings, not hard facts.
It’s somewhat telling that the HTMX blogpost also (mostly) only talks about feelings, not hard facts.
Personally, I’ve been doing this for a long time now. Minimal(-ish), slow pace, no pressure. Works quite well for me. The idea isn’t very popular, though. 🥴
Personally, I’ve been doing this for a long time now. Minimal(-ish), slow pace, no pressure. Works quite well for me. The idea isn’t very popular, though. 🥴
Personally, I’ve been doing this for a long time now. Minimal(-ish), slow pace, no pressure. Works quite well for me. The idea isn’t very popular, though. 🥴
Personally, I’ve been doing this for a long time now. Minimal(-ish), slow pace, no pressure. Works quite well for me. The idea isn’t very popular, though. 🥴
https://dice.camp/@uncanny_kate/112724979643603832
https://dice.camp/@uncanny_kate/112724979643603832
https://dice.camp/@uncanny_kate/112724979643603832
https://dice.camp/@uncanny_kate/112724979643603832
> Maybe your softwares are just perfect and there are simply no bug reports and contributions required. :-)
Haha. 😂 I guess my software is just way too irrelevant. 😅 Or maybe not. I just don’t know. I should add some telemetry. 😏
> I just also see the issue with smaller mail servers being blocked by the large ones. This also happened to me I believe. My mails just never made it to the people. Or they were ignored, I cannot tell.
To be honest, when I send private email, like insurance stuff or to the bank or similar, I always get a reply. The recipients are German mail servers, usually run by those institutions or individuals. Sometimes it’s MS Outlook or Telekom. In other words, it’s *not* Google. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm …
> Maybe your softwares are just perfect and there are simply no bug reports and contributions required. :-)
Haha. 😂 I guess my software is just way too irrelevant. 😅 Or maybe not. I just don’t know. I should add some telemetry. 😏
> I just also see the issue with smaller mail servers being blocked by the large ones. This also happened to me I believe. My mails just never made it to the people. Or they were ignored, I cannot tell.
To be honest, when I send private email, like insurance stuff or to the bank or similar, I always get a reply. The recipients are German mail servers, usually run by those institutions or individuals. Sometimes it’s MS Outlook or Telekom. In other words, it’s *not* Google. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm …
> Maybe your softwares are just perfect and there are simply no bug reports and contributions required. :-)
Haha. 😂 I guess my software is just way too irrelevant. 😅 Or maybe not. I just don’t know. I should add some telemetry. 😏
> I just also see the issue with smaller mail servers being blocked by the large ones. This also happened to me I believe. My mails just never made it to the people. Or they were ignored, I cannot tell.
To be honest, when I send private email, like insurance stuff or to the bank or similar, I always get a reply. The recipients are German mail servers, usually run by those institutions or individuals. Sometimes it’s MS Outlook or Telekom. In other words, it’s *not* Google. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm …
> Maybe your softwares are just perfect and there are simply no bug reports and contributions required. :-)
Haha. 😂 I guess my software is just way too irrelevant. 😅 Or maybe not. I just don’t know. I should add some telemetry. 😏
> I just also see the issue with smaller mail servers being blocked by the large ones. This also happened to me I believe. My mails just never made it to the people. Or they were ignored, I cannot tell.
To be honest, when I send private email, like insurance stuff or to the bank or similar, I always get a reply. The recipients are German mail servers, usually run by those institutions or individuals. Sometimes it’s MS Outlook or Telekom. In other words, it’s *not* Google. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm …
> Should sit down and see what the contributions have been for some of my projects before and after the migration away from Github? 🤔
I might do that for my projects. 🤔
> Maybe it's a discovery problem too?
Yeah, well, apart from my own blog and rarely Mastodon, I don’t really talk about my projects anymore. I used to mention them on forums and reddit and the likes. Forums were really good for that. But I mean, forums are dying out as well, so where *do* you “promote” your projects? 🤔 On Mastodon, it usually gets drowned in the noise.
> I sure hope not, that kind of defeats the point of an ecosystem that is suppose to encourage distributed software development and distributed forms of collaboration. Right? 🤔
It does, yes. Question is, do people actually care about *distributed* development anymore? (Did they ever?)
> Should sit down and see what the contributions have been for some of my projects before and after the migration away from Github? 🤔
I might do that for my projects. 🤔
> Maybe it's a discovery problem too?
Yeah, well, apart from my own blog and rarely Mastodon, I don’t really talk about my projects anymore. I used to mention them on forums and reddit and the likes. Forums were really good for that. But I mean, forums are dying out as well, so where *do* you “promote” your projects? 🤔 On Mastodon, it usually gets drowned in the noise.
> I sure hope not, that kind of defeats the point of an ecosystem that is suppose to encourage distributed software development and distributed forms of collaboration. Right? 🤔
It does, yes. Question is, do people actually care about *distributed* development anymore? (Did they ever?)
> Should sit down and see what the contributions have been for some of my projects before and after the migration away from Github? 🤔
I might do that for my projects. 🤔
> Maybe it's a discovery problem too?
Yeah, well, apart from my own blog and rarely Mastodon, I don’t really talk about my projects anymore. I used to mention them on forums and reddit and the likes. Forums were really good for that. But I mean, forums are dying out as well, so where *do* you “promote” your projects? 🤔 On Mastodon, it usually gets drowned in the noise.
> I sure hope not, that kind of defeats the point of an ecosystem that is suppose to encourage distributed software development and distributed forms of collaboration. Right? 🤔
It does, yes. Question is, do people actually care about *distributed* development anymore? (Did they ever?)
> Should sit down and see what the contributions have been for some of my projects before and after the migration away from Github? 🤔
I might do that for my projects. 🤔
> Maybe it's a discovery problem too?
Yeah, well, apart from my own blog and rarely Mastodon, I don’t really talk about my projects anymore. I used to mention them on forums and reddit and the likes. Forums were really good for that. But I mean, forums are dying out as well, so where *do* you “promote” your projects? 🤔 On Mastodon, it usually gets drowned in the noise.
> I sure hope not, that kind of defeats the point of an ecosystem that is suppose to encourage distributed software development and distributed forms of collaboration. Right? 🤔
It does, yes. Question is, do people actually care about *distributed* development anymore? (Did they ever?)
> I would never ask anyone to send me patches via Email.
That’s not even what I’m doing, but I just realized that my
bugs.html page isn’t really clear about that. It *implies* that patches are meant to be sent via email and I’m fine if that happens – but I don’t insist on people doing that. You might as well send me a link to your fork on GitHub or your own server or whatever.I should clarify that. 🤔
> I would never ask anyone to send me patches via Email.
That’s not even what I’m doing, but I just realized that my
bugs.html page isn’t really clear about that. It *implies* that patches are meant to be sent via email and I’m fine if that happens – but I don’t insist on people doing that. You might as well send me a link to your fork on GitHub or your own server or whatever.I should clarify that. 🤔
> I would never ask anyone to send me patches via Email.
That’s not even what I’m doing, but I just realized that my
bugs.html page isn’t really clear about that. It *implies* that patches are meant to be sent via email and I’m fine if that happens – but I don’t insist on people doing that. You might as well send me a link to your fork on GitHub or your own server or whatever.I should clarify that. 🤔
> I would never ask anyone to send me patches via Email.
That’s not even what I’m doing, but I just realized that my
bugs.html page isn’t really clear about that. It *implies* that patches are meant to be sent via email and I’m fine if that happens – but I don’t insist on people doing that. You might as well send me a link to your fork on GitHub or your own server or whatever.I should clarify that. 🤔
So … what’s stopping people?
> I'm not sure what else we can do? I'm nNOT moving back to Github, ever.
Same. There are alternatives like https://codeberg.org/ now, but does that really help? GitHub was also a small and independent platform once. Are we supposed to “forge hop” (as in “distro hop”) all the time, migrate from the most non-shitty hoster to the next? That can’t be the solution.
So … what’s stopping people?
> I'm not sure what else we can do? I'm nNOT moving back to Github, ever.
Same. There are alternatives like https://codeberg.org/ now, but does that really help? GitHub was also a small and independent platform once. Are we supposed to “forge hop” (as in “distro hop”) all the time, migrate from the most non-shitty hoster to the next? That can’t be the solution.
So … what’s stopping people?
> I'm not sure what else we can do? I'm nNOT moving back to Github, ever.
Same. There are alternatives like https://codeberg.org/ now, but does that really help? GitHub was also a small and independent platform once. Are we supposed to “forge hop” (as in “distro hop”) all the time, migrate from the most non-shitty hoster to the next? That can’t be the solution.
So … what’s stopping people?
> I'm not sure what else we can do? I'm nNOT moving back to Github, ever.
Same. There are alternatives like https://codeberg.org/ now, but does that really help? GitHub was also a small and independent platform once. Are we supposed to “forge hop” (as in “distro hop”) all the time, migrate from the most non-shitty hoster to the next? That can’t be the solution.