Darryl Pogue @dpogue@mastodon.social
Software Developer and Web Fanatic. Hiker, local history lover, and transit fan. VA7DPO 🏳️🌈
Joined Dec 2016
Darryl Pogue
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The internet used to be a city: it had its weird bohemian districts, its flea markets, its high-rises and back alleys. Now it's just a shopping mall, and I miss my old city so much
You: "Hey Darryl, can you import these Trello-alike tasks into our new OpenProject installation?"
Me: "Probably... it has an API"
Me later, reading:
OpenProject is a fork of ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine.
Me: 😱
2018 has been a bit of a rollercoaster, and easily the least rewarding year for me. Feeling pretty disappointed and frustrated with how things turned out.
Trying to be hopeful for what's to come, but it's hard and nothing feels certain anymore 😔
Happy day off due to societal and governmental codification of the dominant religion's major observances :)
Wednesday. 16:30. Somehow I'm the only person still in the office 🤷♂️
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Feels weird to see myself as an old fogey pining for the days of MySpace and Neopets, when people made their own web pages with garish colors and backgrounds, and to know that younger folks today probably have no frame of reference for what I'm talking about.
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It's interesting to think of the concept of the "free and open web" as a generational thing. I can't imagine that that phrase means much to someone born in Generation Z, who grew up with "the internet" meaning an array of chiclet-sized apps built by companies in Silicon Valley.
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Web development's reaction to Microsoft abandoning EdgeHTML is basically "we hated your browser but please don't stop making it".
"The [desktop] view of browser market share is telling. There’s Chrome, and there’s everybody else. Everybody else can be split into two groups: Firefox and the pit of despair: a larger group of small browsers with no meaningful market share."
https://ferdychristant.com/the-state-of-web-browsers-f5a83a41c1cb
sic transit gloria web fundamenti
Definitely feels like I just witnessed the first step in the demise of the web platform ecosystem 😞
This is pretty similar to how I felt back when Opera dropped their Presto engine back in 2014, but I think it's a much worse situation now
Can somebody please dispel this EdgeHTML rumour so that I can stop feeling existential angst about the future of the web platform ecosystem and get back to focusing on my job?
Darryl Pogue
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I'm saddened by the news about Edge moving to chromium. It's a death knell for the web.
Part of the Web's strength comes from it's diversity of platforms. When there is only one way to access the web, controlled by a single interest, as far as I am concerned the web is over.
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Last year over 16,000 JavaScript developers participated in npm's JavaScript ecosystem survey, giving amazing insights into what our community is doing and where trends are going. Now it's that time again! Participate in the 2018 survey right here: https://buff.ly/2FUS29H
Does it get more dystopian than the computerized voice of Amazon Alexa reminding you "If you see something, say something"?
Is every public address system in Seattle voiced by Alexa? This artificially cheerful yet slightly too fast to be human voice is grating on my ears
Excited (mostly) to be heading to Seattle today for #CascadiaJS #CJS2018
Darryl Pogue
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Oops
RT @maevemarsden@twitter.com Hmmmmm
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/maevemarsden/status/1059014344212545538
Software Developer and Web Fanatic. Hiker, local history lover, and transit fan. VA7DPO 🏳️🌈
Joined Dec 2016
