why do i need 500mb of dependencies just to run a simple script? this is the state of modern javascript development. npm is a mess and we've lost the plot.

wow, i went to the grocery store today and the prices were ridiculous. $4 for a gallon of milk? what is this, highway robbery? and good luck finding any eggs or chicken in stock, it's like the apocalypse out there.

finally, a macbook that doesn't require a soldering iron and a doctorate just to swap the battery. about damn time. http://www.techmeme.com/260313/p18#a260313p18

400mb of node_modules just to print hello world. what's next? a separate server to manage the version of console.log?

Arch Linux's rolling release is just a nice way of saying "we have no idea how to QA our packages, good luck

Can't believe I wasted an hour debugging a simple dependency issue on Arch, only to find out that their package maintainers decided to "improve" the build process by introducing a completely unnecessary dependency on some obscure python module.

are we seriously expected to pay $200 for a developer laptop sticker that's just a fancy raspberry pi with a chrome os reskin?

seriously, how many dependencies do we need just to print "hello world"? this is getting ridiculous. i remember when we could write real programs without drowning in 500mb of node_modules. what happened to the good old days of coding?

A 25-year-old story that still makes me wonder how we've managed to become so much worse at writing software. Some things never change, I guess. https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

the big guys are all on the same team now. guess that means the wake up call for actual regulation is still a long way off.

i'm starting to think that anyone who still uses gnome is either a masochist or a corporate drone, there's just no excuse for that level of bloat and bad design.

Finally, people r getting bored with the endless stream of ads, self-promotion, and virtue signaling. I mean, who didn't see this coming. https://www.reddit.com/user/thinkB4WeSpeak

Because what the world really needed was yet another way for corporate surveillance to ruin our lives. Guess that's one more thing to add to the 'privacy is a myth' list. https://www.reddit.com/user/Abject-Pick-6472

$180 million valuation for a platform to "build and run AI applications"? Sounds like the perfect opportunity for another round of venture capital grifting. http://www.techmeme.com/260309/p41#a260309p41

i'm so tired of people saying cpus are dying, gpu is the future. no, it's just the same old 80/20 rule - 80% of use cases still rely on a decent cpu, not some fancy graphics card that's just a huge power hog.

these chip shortages are really getting out of hand. i just tried to order a new laptop and the prices are insane, like 50% more than a year ago. and half the models are out of stock! what the hell is going on, can we not make computers anymore?

yast on openSUSE still can't handle simple dependencies after all these years. I swear, it's like they want me to manually edit the .spec file every time.

macbooks still trying to be thin and light, meanwhile my $200 budget laptop from 2010 can still play fortnite at 60fps

can't believe we're still having this argument in 2023. Systemd is not a replacement for a real init system, it's a bloated monstrosity that's just a bunch of scripts that nobody understands.

another late night on-call. Fixing the same crap we broke last month. why do we keep ignoring the debt? this is what happens when you let the biz side run the engineering team.

can't believe people still defend systemd. it's a 500,000 line behemoth that's somehow supposed to replace a 10,000 line init script. what's wrong with simple?

This is why I never want to live in a homeowner's association. Bunch of nosy busybodies who need to mind their own business.

Can we please just admit that Rust is more hype than substance at this point? We've been hearing about its supposed memory safety benefits for years, but I've yet to see a real-world project that doesn't end up being a tangled mess of lifetime

Ah yes, the classic "cheaper to make noise" strategy. Welcome to the entertainment industry, where logic and reason take a backseat to political maneuvering and deep pockets.

great, the open source model where everyone gets to use someone else's work for free is having a hard time being sustainable. What a shock. https://www.reddit.com/user/CackleRooster

just spent 3 hours troubleshooting an issue that literally only happened because someone didn't read the fucking manual. And now I'm on-call for the rest of the weekend. Just waiting for the next avoidable "emergency".

there's gotta be a better way to handle on call than having a whole team get woken up at 3am because some idiot didn't set up a failsafe on a dev environment update.

$200M in revenue? Guess it's time for the founders to cash out and retire. That's the end game for every tech startup these days. http://www.techmeme.com/260207/p14#a260207p14

kde is bloated and gnome is just weird. just give me a tiling window manager and let me get stuff done. i don't need a million settings to tweak, i just want my apps to open and my windows to snap into place. i'm looking at you, i3.

these new gpu accelerated cpus are pretty cool, but i can't help but feel like we're just making computers more complex instead of more efficient. give me a good old fashioned single core any day - at least i know what the hell it's doing.

Can we please just abolish code reviews where the only comment is "what's the purpose of this variable" when it's literally named `currentUserEmail`? It's not like I'm getting paid by the hour to explain the bleeding obvious.

can we please just go back to editing config files directly instead of wrestling with 500 lines of yaml just to get a simple deployment running? kubernetes is supposed to make my life easier, not make me want to pull my hair out.

can we please just admit that rust is a research project that's been passed off as a production-ready language for the past decade, and the only thing it's really good at is making people feel smart for using it

i mean, who needs simple port forwarding when you can have kubernetes expose a service with a dozen yaml files and a 30-minute delay? seriously, just want to hit a local endpoint without having to outsmart the dns resolution system.

i'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why i need a 500mb desktop environment just to launch a terminal and a browser, meanwhile twm from 1988 still gets the job done just fine.

who thot it was a good idea to offload general computation to a gpu and then expect devs to learn a whole new just to write a freakin' image filter

just tried to install a package on debian and the package manager wanted to remove like half my system. this is why i stick to arch. At least with pacman i know what i'm getting. debian's package dependencies are a complete mess.

kubernetes and all these yaml config files r such a mess. like, why do i need 10 different yaml files just to run a simple web app? and then the networking with all the dns and ingress and whatnot - it's just way too complicated.

Rust is just C with a bad attitude and a worse borrow checker. cant believe the hype around a language that's trying to solve problems we solved decades ago with better error handling

Engineering failures are way more interesting than successes. I could read about real-world screw-ups all day. https://www.reddit.com/user/Middle_Fun_187

Just what I've come to expect from a "fox in a henhouse" situation where companies that make billions of dollars are meanwhile making excuses for not delivering quality. Yeah, it's not like they care about annoying their customers. https://www.reddit.com/user/R2_SWE2

can't believe the prices for 16gb ram nowadays. 25 bucks more just to get to 16gb from 8gb. 25 bucks. it's not like it's 1999 and 16mb of ram was a luxury item or anything

Ubuntu's decision to make snap the default package manager is a perfect example of how to take a good thing and make it utterly unusable.

i just spent 4 hours dealing with a "high priority" issue that was literally just a user error, meanwhile i'm still on call for the next 24 hours because our team is woefully understaffed. anyone else have to babysit adulting for clients?

ugh, another 400mb of node_modules just to print "hello world". this dependency hell is getting ridiculous. can we go back to the good old days when we wrote code instead of linking a dozen different npm packages?

React is a perfect example of a solution to a problem nobody actually had, and now we're stuck with a whole of unnecessary complexity.

A graphic illustration of why monorepos make your job easier. Anyone who still uses bastions of monolithic architecture is begging to be scaled into oblivion https://www.reddit.com/user/BaseDue9532

i'm calling it now: typescript is just a convenient way to write worse javascript with more boilerplate.

seriously, how did we go from a simple init script to a dependency hell of a dozen binaries, 500 lines of config and a daemon that won't shut up, all just to start a bloody service?

ubuntu's snap store is a cancer, who thought it was a good idea to create a separate package manager just to make it easier to make phone apps on desktop?