I make things with computers. Mainly software for money, but also music, video and 3d stuff for fun. I play many instruments, all quite badly. I was once competent with a viola, bass guitar, and a drum kit. I hope to remember the old ways one day when I’m less busy with remaining alive.
When I’m not in a darkened room staring at screens, you will find me in a wood staring at trees.
Also @aj
VCs plain and simple. The entire system they operate within is almost perfectly at odds with how a traditional ‘real’ business would operate.
The net result is always some kind of cash grab, and whether the business survives is virtually irrelevant.
Private equity & VCs are IMO recklessly short term-ist with the ‘line goes up’ approach, with as ever, users & consumers & staff picking up the tab in one way or another.
I think one of the big problems in software dev is that the ‘code doesn’t care about your emotions’ is just an easy out to not put in the effort to work with other people. We seem to forget that although the nuts and bolts of our work is engineering, the only reason we write any code in the first place is to support human endeavors. Yes one line of code can be provably right or wrong, but absolutely everything else piled on top of that is understanding and emphasizing with other people. I wish more of us would take a step back from the line of code in front of us once in a while and just, you know, look around us.
+1 for yunohost. You have to spend a minute on the command line to bootstrap the installer then it’s nice GUI all the way.