Over the years, I've come to understand that consistency in writing is not only essential for improving my craft, but also for cultivating the strange and capricious creature known as inspiration.

It follows the slow pace of the software. The one's that evolves slowly are here to stay.

Following the same ideas: "my product is my garden" https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden/

I agree about roundabouts (=traffic circles) :)

The thought of countless office workers slaving over spreadsheets and performing mindless work makes me sad. These machines that I love were supposed to free us from menial labor. Instead, there are people out there copying something from one spreadsheet and pasting it into another, over and over, ad nauseum. It's because the tools are incomplete, a consequence of trying to tie every conceivable operation to a button on the screen.

For this case, awk and sed can automate all of this :)

It started by putting up optional sign up forms with a cleverly hidden opt-out link. Over time, sign up became mandatory. Now I can only share files with other Dropbox users. That's not what i signed up for. I understand that Dropbox needs to make money. Today, they do that by showing investors that they are growing. One key measure of growth is the number of user accounts they have. So, it makes sense to make every effort to get people to sign up. But, in this case, they are not gaining users through the value of their service – they are using the value of my relationships and my data to force people to sign up. Not cool, guys.

And they provide a solution :) There is also a lot of open source software that can be used.

In a nutshell:

• I think we are overly focused on learning programming languages instead of programming models,
• We should try to make the coding models learnable in the programming languages people use.

Ils oublient de préciser que les biens immobiliers ont vu leur prix augmenter de 150% depuis les années 2000.

Autrement dit, l'héritage d'un bien immobilier est devenu quelque chose de précieux.

Arguments seem legit with links to original articles.

Generating cash has a bigger priority than reinforcing the company

Billions of dollars have shifted toward an entirely new category of technology without any real consideration of whether they'll be good products that users will like — or whether said products might actually harm users — because these companies are not interested in useful innovation or what will actually make their products better at the things they're meant to do. Instead, they are interested in pumping stocks and showing the ability to grow their revenues every single quarter, even if doing so doesn't make the actual purpose of the company stronger.

Big tech companies try so hard to follow trends instead of reinforcing their core product.

Google delayed launching its own AI-based chatbot for years out of ethical concerns, but then rushed out an embarrassing, partially broken version in response to Microsoft's moves.

The goal is not to build the best product for the user anymore. "The user's experience has become subordinate to the company's stock price."

These companies have strayed from their core products — helping you find information, buy things, or connect with people — because their focus is no longer on innovation or providing a service, but finding a "good enough" service that they can then sell advertising around.

Venture capital and other investors have pushed for a growth-first model, prioritizing "line goes up" metrics rather than building a useful product and sustainable business.

instead of trying to meaningfully innovate and improve the useful services they provide, these companies have instead chased short-term fads or attempted to totally overhaul their businesses in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors. As a result, our collective online experience is getting worse — it's harder to buy the things you want to buy, more convoluted to search for information, and more difficult to socialize with people.

Facebook, a website ostensibly for finding and connecting with your friends, constantly floods users' feeds with sponsored (or "recommended") content, and seems to bury the things people want to see under what Facebook decides is relevant.

All of these sound good to me. The thoughts are in contradiction with some terms of the current IT developments and programming.

About the current state of the software:

• it is getting slower as demonstrated by the latency. A computer from 2015 is 2-5 times slower than an Apple 2e from 1986 just at reading a keystroke and displaying it on screen. https://danluu.com/input-lag/
• putting all-in-one software increase complexity, and maintenance costs. They become untrustworthy.
• they are more a liability than an asset

I take some quotes out of it.

Humanity didn't get good at building houses by building the same house a million times. We built lots of different houses and learned from each other's failures.

As a programmer, I've tried multiple times in the past decade to create services just for myself and a few friends. Each of them has fallen away after a year or two. And a big reason for that was the burden of keeping up with updates for all the tools they depend on.

My initial plan had been to create clones of apps for myself and take out lots of features. [...] I didn't expect to find myself wondering what a web browser for memory palaces might look like.

Solutions

• making forks instead of all-in-one software. It keeps them lighter.
• we can have a huge amount of softwares. It is ok. Prefer software with thousands rather than millions of users, that seldom requires updates, that spawns lots of forks, that is easy to modify, that you can modify.

When designing a hypermedia API, you're really designing for a client that does not, and will never, exist. Imagine you're asked by your manager to create a "REST API" for your business.

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

The only time people really change their behavior is when the new behavior is less work than the old behavior. The only time they like changing their behavior is when you show them a better and easier way to do things; when you make their life better. This is the only time 'user education' really works.

Why permanent accessibility plugins are problematic?

Here are some reasons.

In order to create tokens (without meaning), the best possible options are:

• $font-14 (px)
• $font-100 (abstract 100s value)

So new tokens can be

• $font-16, $font-36
• $font-150, $font-125, etc..

Names are then important! --level-3, --spacing, etc...

Des avantages d'être un développeur ennuyeux.

• le pragmatisme
• la stabilité
• l'économie
• la simplicité

It depends on the type of discussion:

• Soil is the property of running code in that language.
• Surface is how the programming language
• atmosphere represents things that aren't the language or its code, but the broader community.

Contre-argumentaire au "Avec ces histoires d’écologie, on ne peut plus rien faire. Ils veulent nous prendre toutes nos libertés !"

Au contraire, tout le sujet de l'écologie, c'est justement de faire en sorte que l'on puisse garder nos libertés, car pour rappel:

• 100 villages n'avaient plus d'eau au robinet l'été dernier en France.
• En ce moment même, l’agriculture (et donc la nourriture) est sacrifiée dans certaines zones des Pyrénées afin de préserver le peu d’eau restant pour que les pompiers puissent agir contre les feux de forêts à venir.
• Dans le Var, les permis de construire sont gelés pour plusieurs années car il n’y a déjà plus assez d’eau pour tout le monde.

De la même manière, plus la situation se dégradera moins nous pourrons faire de choses, car cela se répercute directement sur le coût de la vie : énergie, nourriture, loisirs.

De plus, le dérèglement climatique, lui, va nous arracher très vite nos véritables libertés.

À titre de comparaison, nous sommes maintenant tous dans l'expérience du chamallow: si un enfant réussi à attendre sans manger un chamallow, il a le droit à 2 chamallows après.

Ce néologisme Illibéralisme, alors que parler de régime autoritaire peut aussi être correct, mais c'est effrayant, surtout sur les grand médias.
Au final, OSEF. Ce qui est pertinent se détermine en 3 questions:

1. Est-ce qu’on est bien placés dans l’ab­solu par rapport à nos aspi­ra­tions et nos belles paroles ?
2. Est-ce qu’on est bien placés rela­ti­ve­ment à nos voisins et à d’autres pays simi­laires au notre ?
3. Est-ce qu’on évolue dans le bon sens ?

De mon côté,

1. C'est pas ouf du tout.
2. Nous sommes médiocre, on aurait quelques éléments à reprendre de d'autres pays comme l'Allemagne.
3. La situation évolue en se dégradant.

• la page est moins lourde,
• mes outils restent selon mes besoins
• je suis le premier utilisateur de mes outils, et donc ajouter les fonctionnalités dont j'ai besoin

Découvrir en même temps comment faire, etc...

L’un des principaux arguments des ayants-droits est généralement de dire qu’un média piraté est une vente de moins pour l’auteur ou l’artiste. Ceci est complètement faux, puisqu’une grande partie des consommateurs n’auraient sans doute pas payé pour avoir accès à ce film ou à cet album de musique s’ils n’avaient pas pu le pirater.

Exact.

Pirater un film ou un livre permet également l’accès à la culture aux personnes n’ayant pas les moyens de se les payer. Dans ces cas-là, ce ne seront pas non plus des ventes en moins.

Exact.

De plus, une personne ayant accès à un contenu multimédia qui lui plait a de fortes chances d’en parler autour d’elle, et ainsi de contribuer à sa diffusion et à ses ventes.

Exact.

Enfin, le piratage est aussi un atout pour la diffusion de la médecine et de la science. Face aux brevets et copyrights des laboratoires et maison d’édition, des sites comme Sci-Hub cassent les barrières et permettent à des citoyens et professionnels du monde entier d’avoir accès à des documents de recherche pour le bien de tous.

Exact. Aussi les innovations pirates peuvent aider, comme les jailbreak (tweaks) d'iOS qui sont ensuite implémentées.