I would love to see a new take on backbone in the modern web without any jQuery integration. I genuinely miss how easy and powerful backbone views are.
It probably isn’t burnout, but if you keep pushing against it then you will burnout.
I felt the exact same way in pretty much the same timeline, and then burned out hard last year from trying to force myself to work when all the joy had already fled.
Personally, I think it’s a systemic problem with the industry as a whole, which has been made even worse by the rapid pivot towards LLMs. Somewhere around 2018 I realized that I don’t actually like writing software for other people any more. The projects no longer excite or challenge me, it’s just more of the same.
This was me. I’ve been on them for four years and actually gained fifty pounds
The drug keeps me from binge eating, which is huge, but if I take enough to actually lose weight then I have weekly bouts of food poisoning because the sugars in my gut start to ferment. An entire day sitting on the toilet while holding a bucket because it’s coming out both ends.
Meanwhile I’ve been on ozempic since 2021 and have lost significant muscle mass despite gaining 50 pounds (the drug helps with my diabetes but does nothing to my appetite).
I’ve been conceptualizing one for a few years, but just don’t have the free dopamine to build it alongside my day job.
ActivityPub even has the mechanics to facilitate it through publishing Person records. There is MASSIVE space for innovation, especially if you prioritize on non-monogamy, non-heterosexual, non-gender-conforming needs.
Dating apps are a REALLY hard space to get into, however. You need a cumulative mass of users in a given area before they’re useful, and monetizing it inevitably means making the app less useful. There’s a reason okcupid went to shit after it stopped being a non-profit.
Now you've piqued my interest, especially if it could be done in a safe but distributed way, without a focus on profits.
How you'd envision it to work, considering the open nature of ActivityPub but the need/want from the users to remain private when using dating applications/protocols?
Profile data can be restricted based on authorized fetch, just like mastodon.
For messaging, I hadn’t put a much thought into it, but one could establish end to end encryption based on mutual validation signatures. Theoretically. Encryption isn’t my strong suit, but as long as the encoded body is unicode, it’s just as easy to transmit as any other text.
But, like, I also don’t know of any dating site that professes to be encrypting message contents.
I recognized I was burned out three months ago, but wasn’t in a situation to do anything about it. Then work got even harder, and I tried to push through it.
My brain broke last Friday, I couldn’t think about even the most basic programming concepts without a lot of struggle and developing a nasty headache. I’m now in the exact same place as OP, and just told HR today that I need to file for temporary disability.
I’m scared, I fear my career may have just come to a screeching halt.
If you’re worried about the “gap”, don’t be. In my experience it doesn’t matter nearly as much as people believe. And don’t worry about your “career”. It’s basically all bullshit anyway.
Your ability to provide for yourself and your family isn't "basically bullshit," and filing for short term disability doesn't leave a gap on your resume.
In the grand scheme of things arbitrary and artificial “career ladders” don’t matter. Your best strategy is to ignore all that and move around every 2-3 years looking solely at the dollar figures and ignoring the titles. If you do not move, you’re going to end up underpaid, even if you do get to a fancy title or “more responsibility”.
Lemmy is serving my former reddit needs quite well.