tranceFusion

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great explanation. I started an open source project that was reasonably popular because I was off for two weeks and had a problem I wanted to solve. Before those two weeks were up, I had completed everything I set out to do. I didn’t really expect anyone else to use it or care. But they did, and over the next 2-3 years I burned myself out testing different distro configurations, debating with people on mailing lists on other projects that affected mine, responding to hundreds or thousands of issues that came in, coordinating language translations, reviewing pull requests, etc. I kept going thinking that maybe it would look good on my resume or lead to work in the future, but the only person in an interview that had heard of it told me he disagreed with its existence!

  Even though I had total control of the project, it was so hard to keep my original vision in place. Should I turn down an incredibly ingenious pull request because it didn’t fit my original vision, even though many other people will use it? But if I accept it, it’s another complexity to maintain. What about a pull request that meets a lot of goals but is only half way there in terms of implementation - do I take my time to finish that? Some of the people arguing in the ecosystem were paid employees of Canonical, Microsoft or some other entity that seemingly had nothing to do all day but try to bend projects to their will. I really had no time left to deal with my own interests in improving the project.

  I know this is a long rant, but many of the projects in the Linux ecosystem are maintained by people in a similar situation. It’s pretty amazing that it’s as cohesive as it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they tried to hide that they were using Google, but rather than they are using Brave, because many people were upset about that. They probably just decided to stop naming specific indexes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does technology actually add value to the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are making it sound like it’s a fault of managers and coworkers that they don’t want some cowboy coder to replace everything that’s not on a stack they consider cool anymore with their version of “better”, which is probably some half baked idea that takes 4x longer than estimated to finish, missing 75% of the business cases, has a bunch of bugs and UX problems, has had little thought to testing, deployment, rollout or user training, and will have a huge opportunity cost on actual customer demands, but hey… “it works on my machine”. Cause all that is what I think of every time some junior dev starts complaining that everything sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s rejection of Hey calendar app revives an old feud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Apple developer terms actually have a specific section for “reader apps” which are primarily meant for consuming media purchased or subscribed to outside of the Apple Store. The in app purchase requirements are relaxed for apps falling in this category. I don’t think a calendar app fits that, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so people used to take this guy seriously? I watched a review he did on some sim racing gear a few years back and it was obvious the guy didn’t google even the most basic advice on how to set up a sim rig properly.