You are making it sound like it’s a fault of managers and coworkers
Sorry, that's not what I intended to imply. OP would definitely be the antagonist in that situation, I was trying to give them useful advice so they could avoid being that, and leave my own opinions at the door. "Cowboy Coder" is definitely what I'm going to call that behavior from now on though lol.
When I started working I went in with a plan to upgrade and modernize everything I touch. I still believe that to be the case, or like… my “purpose”(as an employee not a person).
I mean this with as much respect to you OP as I can possibly put into words, and if your therapist has already touched on this, absolutely ignore everything I say and listen to them.
I have been both been this person and dealt with this person. Believe me when I say that this behavior engenders little love from management and coworkers alike. You can quickly gain a bad reputation by trying to modernize everything you see. That reputation can be (meanly) described many different ways, from try-hard to kiss-ass.
Don't let your career suffer for this. There are few reasons to risk your reputation, your chance at promotion, the goodwill of your peers, and more: "using the latest and greatest" is not one of those reasons. Sometimes, following the crowd is fine.
Springboot apps, create-react-apps, codebases in c and c++, no kubernetes, little to no cloud.
Now, speaking as a developer instead of an armchair psychoanalyst, I don't see why these traits or lack thereof make for bad software. Nor does it make you a lesser developer for working with them. It entirely depends on your industry, the applications, the users, security interests, available recruitable talent, and many more factors.
As true now as it was then.
Legitimately good updates to the shopping cart but holy shit are they overdue.
When a company uses Embrace Extend Extinguish, they are relying on network effects to drive people to their side. So let's say Threads comes out, starts federating, has a big established userbase, and then they come out with some new, proprietary killer feature. It could be great moderation tools - something kbin and the fediverse need, no doubt about it - but whatever the feature is, it draws users away from the existing fediverse infrastructure and into Threads. Threads then makes massive changes to the ActivityPub spec, building the walled garden back up again. Only this time, they've actually siphoned off some of the users you originally had in the community. The result isn't the status quo, Meta peeled away users who otherwise would have stayed.
By the way, while a "small community of tech nerds" is perfectly fine in its own right, I would argue the fediverse has already grown beyond that community. They're a large contingent no doubt, but there's also law enthusiasts, news outlets, game developers, users from Germany, Japan, France, Finland, and I follow them all. To see them leave for Threads would be a shame.
Defensively and passive-aggressively trying to argue with reviewers?
Big "Baldur's Gate 3 is an anomaly" energy.
Everyone is pointing out the comparison of Wikipedia's salaries to other tech companies, but they're missing the point that the person they're arguing with is NOT coming from a good faith position. They are hoping to feed on your distrust of the rich and powerful, in an attempt to convince you to work against your interests and the common good.
They hope their calls of "Wikipedia owners make too much money!" leads to "We should dismantle Wikipedia by boycotting donations!" and then to "We should sell Wikipedia to the last surviving Koch brother!"
In times like this, especially when the original twitter post gets ratio'd to shit, it's important to evaluate where they're getting their numbers. I see they post a link to Rumble. I've never heard of this before, what is it?
Rumble
Rumble is a video platform where you can watch live and on-demand content from various categories, such as news, politics, gaming, sports, viral, power slap and finance. You can also discover new creators, join communities, and support your favorite channels on Rumble.
Um... I don't know what Power Slap is but ok, it's a youtube clone.
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Oh fuck me it's a right wing nutjob site. This post is fucking dogshit, trashing Wikipedia because it helps counter their propaganda. Fuck that noise.
Happily other people noticed this fucking nonsense:
He says elsewhere that it’s a “liberal cesspool” so you know where is problem really is.
Slap this right into Urban Dictionary. Great explainer.
I have been trying to figure out why since I started using it... searches spin forever, videos spin forever, some videos just spit "Error 1003" immediately, and then they become accessible 10 minutes later. I even tried filing an issue to no avail. I may end up looking for other alternatives.
Now if only Piped wouldn't error out and be unusable for 10 minutes at a time every couple hours...
I've seen the headline "Denuvo removed from Game" so many times that I can only imagine that the publisher just doesn't see the point of paying for it after sales drop below a certain point.
You know what, hot take? Shout out to Denuvo, they made a DRM scheme so easy to remove that every publisher inevitably does it at some point or another.