Those of you who frequently watch TV shows or movies in languages you don’t understand (e.g. with subtitles):
When you recall dialogue in the show/film, do you remember it in the actual language you heard, or in your native language?
I know there’s lots of upsides and downsides to cloud hosting, but I think my biggest problem with it is that it is all built on a mountain of leaky, incomplete, and dysfunctional abstractions.
Even Kubernetes is full of them, which is why we keep getting new layers on top (see KRO, for example).
And the various cloud providers are much worse.
“Just one more layer of abstraction, bro, that’ll fix it!”
The issue with abstractions is that when one is faulty, every layer on top is too.
I wish RSS/Atom had opt-in CSS.
I appreciate that I can effectively download a website and read it whenever I want, but so many websites I read are quite pretty.
I’d love it if they showed up just as pretty in my feed reader, with the option to toggle it per feed.
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And all I can think when I read it is this:
If Microsoft and Amazon have taught us anything, it’s that the “two hard problems” is a conspiracy designed to get programmers to spend all their time stressing out about naming things, when clearly, it’s completely irrelevant.
I’m visiting my corporate office in a couple of weeks, and I have 30 people signed up for a TDD workshop I’m running then.
I guess I should start writing this workshop…
