We still have the endash!

Dang?

Dang is one of the mods that keeps the average HN convo quality higher than a lot of the internet without being a power hungry dick.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

In regards to the vast majority of reddit moderators:

_how_?

Fascinating! First time seeing/reading Tyranny of Structurelessness

Was Pivotal Labs built with this in mind? A lot of their core principals seem to overlap with with seven principals prposed at the end (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm for the curious)

Reinventing the plan file!

I mostly do this too for personal stuff. Although on solo projects I have a neverending TODO.md I check in...

...and on multi-person projects I end up using github issues/projects and/or Forgejo's equivalent

Well, these numbers _are_ from 2023. Things seem to have shifted (especially for the new grads) in the past 2 years...

(We'll know when new numbers come out of the feeling is correct?)

Andy Schatz, the independent game creator of Monaco, said something at a GDC talk that really resonated with me along these lines

I'm paraphrasing but -

"Do the hard work that you need to do, but always give yourself an hour a day for the bullshit 'i don't have time for this but I want to do it' stuff.

It'll keep you happy, which will keep you productive through the slog... and those little touches will stand out and make SOME people happy"

For the unfamiliar (the man, not the talk): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Schatz

DP2e is one of the reasons I still use DOSBox

Probably not

Many old monitoring programs just literally generated graphs like these using input data and outputted a static image on a cron/tick. "Expensive" once, then cached... in the form of the image

I'm guessing this is that sort of tech

what do you mean by "squat on"?

They didn't attempt to build a GitHub Action implementation, they took a known broken one and attempted to duct tape it, so now it's the worst of both worlds: maybe theirs is somehow better, but because everyone in the world knows how terrible act is, they have to say "oh, we built in top of act, but we added some things, fixed others, broke something else, and who knows[1] but good luck to you, our beta testers"

Had act been a known working project, maybe it would have been worth the risk of forking it, or hitching their wagon to it, but to take a weekender project and attempt to build the entire CI system on top of it is insanity. Well, it would have been insanity in a world before having software that sometimes works and sometimes gaslights you became VCs shoveling money. So don't listen to me, I obviously just haven't gotten on the "maybe it works" train

1: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/actions/#:~:text=used%2...