The first step towards being great at anything is being shitty at that thing.

Nested tables is the best I can do…

You’ve perfectly summarized my own feelings toward the best versions of Windows. Thank you. I feel more centered seeing it summarized so well in writing.

I’ll add that I found Vista cool and interesting on a technical level, even while the practical outcome was pretty awful.

Exactly.

Always spend at least 20% of the time on stuff you know is necessary, but will never be prioritized by marketing heads.

This is the way.

Leadership: Please don’t prioritize code cleanup, we have critical features we need to release.

Me: Oh. I didn’t realize you were taking ownership of (complex code no one wants to be associated with). I’ve got diagrams I can send you.

Leadership: No, that’s still yours. We just need you to focus on these features, and not any planned maintenance, for just the next sprint.

Me: So you’ll take over guiding maintenance on (complex source code no one wants to get near)? I can send you the backlog for your project plans…

Leadership: That’s not what we’re saying. Please just prioritize the feature.

Me: Oh. Sure. I will prioritize that feature, and I’ll only do the bare minimum cleanup that can’t be avoided, right now. (Which will turn out to be however much cleanup I damn well please, because their eyes glaze over if I explain it, anyway.)

Leadership: Now you’re getting it!

Me: Gee whiz. Thanks for talking it through with me.

This is photoshopped, right?

The Pirate’s Code Style and Documentation Standard…be more like guidelines.

I hope GIMP is able to do the same!

That would be amazing. Gimp hating user design has been a joke punchline for so long, I can’t even say where I would start fixing it.

Lol. Even among those less stupid, most didn’t hire junior developers for the last three years, to hedge their bets.

Well, it’s three years later, AI didn’t solve shit, and we are facing an entire missing cohort of senior developers.

We’ve seen this before - back when web frameworks “made all of us obsolete” back in 2003.-

Here’s what comes next:

Everyone who needs a senior developer gets to start bidding up the prices of the missing senior developers. Since there simply aren’t enough to go around, the “find out” phase will be punctuated.

Losing bidders get to pay 4x rates for 1/3 the output from consulting companies.

Cheers!

Source: I was made obsolete by web frameworks so hard that I entered a delusion where working with web frameworks just let us produce bigger buggier websites even faster - and where the demand for web developers skyrocketed and I made some seriously respectable money while helping train up junior developers to help address the severe shortage.

Oh, I didn’t realize but I’ve also had a Jade laptop. I was just holding it upside down.

I once shared that I had a bad first experience with Rust and no less than four Rust developers arrived to inform me that I was either hallucinating, or bad at programming, or both.

I haven’t had this much fun winding up a sensitive community since I shared how I really felt about Java Spring, in it’s heyday.

I do really like C++.

And yes, this would work.