#modernsoftware

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-06

Ah, the age-old debate: , the eternal promise of liberation from technical drudgery, 🤖 only to ensnare you in a labyrinth of dependencies, mystery fees, and mind-numbing decision fatigue. 😵‍💫 But hey, at least your vendor lock-in now comes with a sleek, modern logo and the illusion of choice. 🎨✨
rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-ve

IosAndWeb Technologiesiosandweb
2025-06-06

How Leading Software Development Companies Are Evolving Mobile App Development

Discover how a modern software development company adapts to the fast-changing world of mobile apps.

Read more: shorturl.at/rKihX

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2025-03-07






Notion's help is so bad I had no choice just then but to use the built-in AI to add a field to a page.

We're all fucked.

2024-12-29

Every product manager: "I bet users would love to have this feature..." (something annoying)

Every user: "Why the fuck did they make things worse..."

#modernsoftware #softwaredevelopment

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-10-10

Excellent article (with grammos) on why CSS was and remains one of the biggest bullshit things ever to hit software.

msandrini.medium.com/css-the-w

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-10-02

I see yt-dlp is about to fuck itself again.

It is requiring a Python 3.9 upgrade but the upgrade path is messy and has new requirements that haven't been worked out.

Also this means it will stop working on Win7 without a hack.

Why do nerds hate hate hate backwards compatibility and safe upgrading so so so very much?

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-10-01

HEY! VIRGIN MONEY JUST GOT BETTER!

THEY SAY!

Even though the app is still crap and there's no web portal yet.

But better, they say!!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-19

Out of the blue, I can no longer cast from my android device to my android TV

It's just embarrassing, modern software

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-17

Make this up

"Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon in what appeared to be an unprecedented attack that authorities said injured almost 2,800 and killed nine across Lebanon."

msn.com/en-us/news/world/explo

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-06

Life as an old software developer.

Stares at discussion, chin in hand, weary half-eyelids-closed gaze.

"Yeah, you're all wrong," I say to myself.

Then I tick Approved, because the decades it will take them to learn why they're wrong are not something I have in my back pocket.

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-05

Jira really is a lot like whacking yourself in the genitals with barbed wire!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-30

The Client will lie about what was agreed. But often the agreement was more ambiguous than anyone realised. This is a rare case where meetings can help!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-26

Fuck Linux is SHIT at dealing with zombie processes. Honestly it's easier to kill errant processes in Windows. There, I said it.

Wonder if the 6 series kernel is any better in this regard.

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-21

Modern web development is just a silly game.

I get paid to play a silly game.

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-08

I have a book open now.

How long are we giving Telstra to re-enable 3g after they shut it down, because it turns out a heap of critical services still depend on it?

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-06

I've just made a lot of money today fighting with the Fucking Stupid Framework instead of solving the problem!
Yay!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-04

Home Assistant looked interesting, but I decided a dozen pages of caveats and fucking around with Docker really was not the easiest path to de-Cloud'ing a robot vacuum cleaner! :blobcatcoffee:

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-01

Honestly you should be able to pick up the phone and call one of your utility companies, have them identify you by the phone number straight away, and just ask them
"WHAT did you just fuck up?"

And get a useful answer.

LINUXexpert.orglinuxexpert
2024-07-28

In 1997, Eric S. Raymond penned a seminal essay titled “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” which profoundly influenced the open-source software movement. How well do Raymond’s ideas hold up in the context of 2024’s open-source landscape?

linuxexpert.org/the-cathedral-

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