There was Nina too and then they destroyed the discord over a weirdo pedo mod and took down the website. Also closed source because they’re also selfish.
The front-end is usually just a thin layer on top of a database, sometimes with backend services (queues/processing). Having a bad language on the front-end actually helped. You don't want to write code because of the bad language, you write less code, less code is less bugs. You had to be invested to increase the lines of code. It's like the hard chair of programming languages. If you don't want programmers to dwell there, bring the hard chairs.
It's meant in a tongue in cheek way. Day to day I develop in C# and Typescript/React using all the latest bells and whistles. Long for the simpler times though. The time before product managers, Scrum and ticket driven development. All the tickets drive the complexity that maybe shouldn't exist. Hard to push back against feature requests when it's a one-way street.
Still here at Kroger which consistently calls for assistance.
And then there’s fucking Costco where after the system calling over a rep after I scanned something. apparently I am only to use the scanning gun for things that are staying in the cart, when I bagged it it called them over.
It’s interesting how I don’t hear the same fearmongering over “price controls” when Kamala dared mention a plan to stop grocery store price gouging from the same people when Trump demanded drug companies lower their prices [1].
Yes, everyone is pretty technical. The author of this article (ptag) spends a decent amount of time helping the people out who aren't as well-versed in infrastructure/networking.
I think that's mainly it. It does give you some peace of mind that you are never in an "unprotected until next snapshot" state. But if you don't care, then there isn't much else that I noticed.
