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 Does anybody else feel like they're relearning web development? Once you decide you wanna get off the The Frontend Treadmill, you realize you need to completely reorient your process for building web sites and applications. I think all of the tools and practices that you reach for need to change pretty significantly. It feels like starting over. I just learned a few important things from @renchap. Apparently the docker-compose.yml in the root of the mastodon repo is not mean to be used for development. It is meant for production deployment. That's a bit confusing, but I'll accept it. However they have made significant improvements to the dev containers implementation after I said it didn't work. It seems much more viable now.  @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. Somehow found myself arguing with someone who talks about "the fediverse" like it is a) a singular thing and b) a separate thing from bluesky. It helped remind me of a fundamental truth about talking to people who are mad on the internet. What they're mad about is entirely uncorrelated with how well they understand the issues. Anger is an *emotion*. So is fear.
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 @polotek the Fediverse is different from Bluesky. Bluesky is talking about (but hasn't implemented) creating a competitor to the Fediverse. @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...? |
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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 π― 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.