Still resisting sleep, might have (again?) discovered about the tildeverse. And even being not completely sure what's to this, it still reminds me of my very first web pages back in university days, with my ~login being the first anchor thrown out into that world next to the ever-loading Netscape spinner and pages keeping oddly defined typography centered on pages in front of 256 colour GIF background textures resembling seashores and sand. So much for nostalgia.

#outerworld #56k dialup aesthetics #legacy technology #flashback

(Safe to say Jira and Confluence never really were tools sparking joy in daily work life, so it's surprising to say: Moving to the cloud variant of both has made this experience even less pleasant than it already used to be.)

#outerworld #office hours #legacy technology #the cloud is the answer #atlassian #jira #confluence

Fan on medium speed today, more a habit than a need by now. Warmth of the office did retreat to just a couple of rooms and it gradually gets easier to move or think, again. Also, fitting random urgent issues into a packed stack of tasks. Wondering how much it will be able to pile up. The demotivating feeling of still spending energy on systems that are on its way out.

#outerworld #concrete city #office hours #legacy technology #where we do what we do

Overcoming legacy technology and embracing digital transformation [Q&A] #QandA #DigitalTransformation #LegacyTechnology

https://betanews.com/2025/06/04/overcoming-legacy-technology-and-embracing-digital-transformation-qa/

(Vierte Herausforderung: Weiterziehen mit dem Nachmittag, wissend um die neuen alten offenen Enden. Viel verschoben, wenig vollbracht, immer noch nicht ansatzweise zufrieden mit sich, dem Tag, der Form. Durchatmen unter aufziehender Dämmerung. Noch immer im Schwung.)

#outerworld #concrete city #always in between #legacy technology

Close to 5pm. Complexity and side effects and the challenges of managing changes required by other changes breaking things. Unpleasant realities. And a hazy sun.

#outerworld #concrete city #office hours #legacy technology

(Too: Closing browser tabs the night left open. Unsure which random insights led into the murky world of old Unix derivatives and same as old VAX machines. The model doesn't know either. Maybe that odd nostalgia about technology being both advanced and still archaic, that roots in yesterday while increasingly overwhelmed by the new walls of todays tools and toys.)

#outerworld #home office hours #legacy technology #moving on moving fast #model conversations

Plötzlicher Kontextwechsel. Verbindungen herstellen noch im Heute zu dem, was erst Morgen wieder von Relevanz sein sollte. Sich an Zugangsdaten erinnern. Routen nachzuvollziehen versuchen. An unerwarteten Wänden scheitern. Und neue Prioritäten setzen, weil es der Augenblick erfordert.

#outerworld #sunday evening #concrete city #legacy technology

Also: Learning about that system you dedicated years of your life building will finally be shut down and discontinued within a six weeks time frame, no replacement. And remembering all that tremendous load of prototype quality code in there that went online once "just to see" - to then remain there for more than a dozen years without getting maintenance or improvements and it way less leaves a good feeling relating to ones own earlier works but a rather bad gut feeling eyeing virtually every piece of software out and running online at present.

#outerworld #home office hours #concrete city #legacy technology

(Topologies and hierarchies. Tracing where the actual design differs from the drafted one. Calling out into obscure depths, wondering who is likely to respond and whether this is what's expected. Small differences in data amounting to quite disturbing effects if just piling up for long enough. Map's not the territory. The system does what it does, and it's unsure to even fully grasp whether this is what it should be doing.)

#outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #legacy technology

4pm and a bit further. Research, try, repeat. Steps forth, steps back. But at least not running in circles. The lower a level of technology, the more unfamiliar, uncanny all surroundings feel. And the more dusty, rusted everything to come across seems to be. At the very end, maybe there's still an engineer in everything technical, and it always boils down to descending into an engine room to fix crucial problems. Steampunk moods under a chilling wind.

#outerworld #office hours #where we do what we do #legacy technology