Age of empires 2. Still works.

Vim for most things. Vscode for js things. Jetbrains for specific stacks like all Python or such. VS for .net.

IDEs sure come and go, buy I seem to always go back to vim after a while.

It’s the next RTO.

Thanks totally agree. And appreciate the comment.

I feel like this is still a community and less people trying to influence. Or less so at least.

Lol slapfight.

I kinda like the fediverse as is. We keep slowly growing our services. We don’t need to be social media.

We can be social sure but without the need to be ever growing. I would rather us concentrate on the people and giving us power rather than huge orgs that are going to do huge org things.

I may test it out. I believe it will at least work with RSS and Piefed.

GL! Thats a hard one.

Ive found my highest paying roles were in traditional workplaces with very specific duties. Startups in my area dont usually do well. But I hear stories of people hitting big. Seems like a very high risk/reward situation.

Yep users move over time. Its the natural order of things. I disagree with the article that moving away from SO is "bad news for developers " as long as we have something better in the works. It looks like Discord is the thing everyone is jumping on, which kinda sucks.

Im a bit confused. Are you in a startup? And you are learning the ropes on the business side?

Yep I agree. Its a combo of many different things.

I cant tell you the last time I was on SO for a question. its been that long.

The article also goes into it, but I think the invent of AI and asking somewhat specific questions may also explain the decline. If you can get a result that can get you 90% of the way there with an AI that used stack overflow as a resource, theres no reason to actually ask on stack overflow. Its faster to go on the AI result or go on google/bing/etc…etc… that has the answer right there on the page.

And the redesign…its pretty bad in my opinion.

I was once downvoted answering a question on a library…that I created on stack overflow. Still makes me laugh.

For me: I did a LOT of contracting/small jobs at first and found im pretty good at anything that plugs into the wall. Then found out you can get paid if you just deliver reliably.

Also getting into a niche can help your $$. I did EDI for a bit and it helped later on. No one knows EDI (for good reason).

Oh yeah, ive been doing this for close to 20 years now. I have YEARs worth of savings if need be. If they want to get rid of me, ill have a job lined up in a couple of months as im literally at the beach. I dont work overtime.

Time is a much more valuable commodity. I appreciate the comment.

My guess? The freemium stuff gives the promise of $$ after a certain level of popularity. And they make it VERY easy to use.

Personally, ive been thinking of using writefreely for its seamless integration of fediverse…but I really dont have a lot to say in the traditional space. IE screaming at the wailing wall (or at least it feels like screaming at the wailing wall).

Also is substack the new meduim? I cant keep up with these freemium wordpress/blog clones.

I feel like this is a repeat of the “just hire someone overseas” again. The projects will go haywire after an initial promise…and the only ones that can fix it are the experienced devs. Cant tell you how many projects I got over the years like that.

That graph tells a story.

It’s a pretty fun game. Wish there were more levels.

I did Linux testing of games and for the platform. This was before valve did a lot in the Linux space. You know the game dust force? One of the reasons it works for Debian is because of something I reported. It’s a bunch of very small contributions over a 4 year period. Humble bundle even had their own internal issue tracker. It was technically my first fortay into QA and Linux dev work. Linux native games are awesome.

Nowadays we have proton/wine/etc… (and that’s awesome) but Linux native apps have many advantages over an emulated layer. Power savings and CPU cycles just a couple. I’m glad we have so many options for games. Gog or otherwise.

I used to volunteer for humble bundle back in the day. It was a lot of work but very rewarding. Getting a job with gog could be fun. Hope they get the people they need! I’ve always been impressed by what they are able to accomplish!