Just as an example, I find that I can't even get started in the same way. For a long time now, setting up a new project meant installing a build chain. Webpack, create-react-app, esbuild, vite. Whatever thing is in fashion at the time. But the first thing you do is make a bunch of assumptions about your development environment.

But what we're realizing is that those assumptions lock us into a particular path. And we're realizing that we may want to have other paths available to us.

@polotek 💯 yes!
I too have been at this since the early days of writing HTML without an IDE but after 6 years in QA, I am not confident I could pass the coding interview for a FE job today.

@polotek thanks for the writeup!

I think I'll stick with @grunfink's snac (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2)? I realize there are Docker instructions available for that too, but avoiding unnecessary layers of abstraction is a bigger win for me, every time.

@renchap

@polotek This. Whole. Thread.

All of it.

@polotek the Fediverse is different from Bluesky. Bluesky is talking about (but hasn't implemented) creating a competitor to the Fediverse.
It's like the Internet. That is actually a thing. There have been competitors to the Internet, and there are technically (although almost no one uses them) still implementations of those competitors still in use.

@polotek Sometimes I wonder if the anger is correlated with the emotions that result from ignorance and *knowing* one isn't up to speed on the thing. It's frustrating and scary to feel out of control or not understand something... and anger is an easy step from that frustration. Just a thought...?